Throughout 2025-2026, our 25th Anniversary Year, we have reprised — and updated! — our popular weekly blog 52 Ways to Expand Your Welcome to LGBTQ+ People and Our Families. Every week, for the past year, we have posted suggestions on how your faith community can become more welcoming to – and inclusive of – LGBTQ+ […]
Creating affirming learning environments for youth in your community also involves involving and supporting adults. Both parents and teachers play critical roles in the lives of our youth and have their own needs. To Support Parents: Parents of LGBTQ youth may face particular stress as their children return to school, knowing the odds of their […]
As the summer draws to a close and school starts up again, your support for LGBTQ youth, parents, and teachers can make a big difference. We hope that going back to school – safely and in person, when possible – will be a positive opportunity for growth and learning for everyone; yet this is often […]
Far too often, the welcome that LGBTQ+ people receive in faith communities does not fully extend to those who are disabled. People with disabilities are part of the LGBTQ+ community, yet they frequently experience exclusion from both mainstream LGBTQ+ spaces and congregations. A genuine welcome, one that reflects the expansiveness of God’s love, must actively […]
20 March 2026 Part of being a vibrant, inclusive faith community is creating an affirming space not only for LGBTQ people but for our families as well. More than a quarter of same-sex households include children, with studies showing 28.7% of families overall raising children, according to the Williams Institute at UCLA. Among African-Americans, the number is even […]
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 […]