3 October 2025 This year, we observe Banned Book Week from 5-11 October (2025). If you visit the American Library Association’s Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2024, you will notice that 4 of the 10 were targeted because they include positive portrayals of LGBTQ+ people. When these books are removed or not included in […]
Click here for a video recording of this online CLGS event! This CLGS Transgender Roundtable interactive workshop empowers religious leaders, both lay and ordained, to move beyond the concept of “trans inclusion” and into a mindset of holistic affirmation for trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in your religious community. Explore with us the barriers to affirmation […]
Click here for a video recording of this CLGS Latinx Roundtable Event! This CLGS Latinx Roundtable Event explored the concept of familia through a queer Latinx lens. Our panelists reflected on the many ways “familia” is constructed and deployed in Latinx cultures and applied a queer reading of familial relationality (including biological families and “chosen” families) […]
This resource was written by Kelsey Pacha, CLGS’ Youth Resources Coordinator, and made possible by a grant from the Atkinson Foundation. Through their generosity, CLGS has worked with congregations, parents, and religious educators in San Mateo County and beyond to create this resource.
Click here to view a video recording of the CLGS Asian American/Pacific Islander Roundtable event! This program offered an overview of Valuing Families: Christian Education for the Household of God, a CLGS curriculum that focuses on API experiences of, and commitment to, extended family in Christian community and to the welcome and inclusion of LGBTQ people […]
Under the guise of “parental rights” students are being shamed into silence and teachers are being censored. LGBTQ youth in Florida, and many others states, are subjected to fearmongering tactics to prevent them from speaking honestly about their own lived experiences. In addition to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, the Department of Education in […]
Click here for a video recording of this CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation! Sixteen months after his marriage to his partner Rich, Manuel Frank-Lampon reflects with Rev. Dr. Carla Roland Guzmán, Coordinator of the CLGS Latinx Roundtable, upon his participation in – and experience of – pre-marital counseling. In this online conversation (the first in […]