From The Office of Communications at Pacific School of Religion Since its founding in 2000, the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion (PSR) has served LGBTQ+ people, families, and faith communities through advocacy, community-building, education, and research. As the United States’ first seminary-based LGBTQ+ center, CLGS is […]
CLGS is an interfaith organization, affirming the importance of religious and cultural diversity. It includes a specifically Jewish Roundtable that serves the needs of Jewish queer people. September marks the beginning of the Jewish High Holy Days. This period of religious observance opens with the Jewish New Year, Rosh HaShanah; continues with the Day of […]
Click here to check our this recent article our new CLGS Queer and Catholic Oral History Project at Outreach: An LGBTQ Catholic Resource!
Click here to submit an item for Sublime Divinations, the second edition of CLGS’ AAPIRT zine! The Asian/American & Pacific Islander Roundtable (AAPIRT), a program of The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS), is committed to cultivating a world where AAPI LGBTQ+ communities and their allies can freely imagine, create, and sustain […]
LGBTQ+ Latinx Health Guide on HIV/AIDS for Faith Communities A New Bilingual Resource from The CLGS Latinx Roundtable | Fe, Familia, Igualdad This guide, the newest resource created by the CLGS Latinx Roundtable, includes information on HIV/AIDS and how it has an impact on Latinx persons, families, and faith communities. In addition, this resource – […]
Click here to register for this ONLINE Lecture and follow-up discussion which will be offered via Zoom! Queer Crip Revelation: Disability Dance, Jewish Text, and the Sacred Potency of Difference with Professor Julia Watts Belser The 13th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Thursday, 20 October 2022, at 2:30pm (Pacific Time) (Online) Join the Center […]
Click here to register for this online CLGS Event, which will be offered via Zoom Join us for the book launch of Liberating Gender for Jews and Allies: The Wisdom of Transkeit (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022), an extraordinary collection of essays by trans Jews and allies explores cutting-edge ideas about gender through the lenses of tradition, […]
Click here to check out our Fall 2022 Programming Calendar! Updated 26 August 2022
CLGS is proud to announce the publication of Liberating Gender for Jews and Allies: The Wisdom of Transkeit, co-edited by Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman, Coordinator of the CLGS Jewish Roundtable, and Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw, Coordinator of the CLGS Transgender Roundtable. This extraordinary collection of essays by trans Jews and allies explores cutting-edge ideas about gender […]
CLGS is proud to announce The Orange Left on the Altar, the First Edition of the CLGS Asian American/Pacific Islander Roundtable Zine! Click here to access the Zine The Orange Left On The Altar is a zine, a message, a spell, an incantation, a memory where Queer and Gender Transcendent Asian/American & Pacific Islander folks […]