1 January 2026 This Month in Queer Religious History* The 1965 New Year’s Benefit Ball in San Francisco “Drag queens and attendees at the New Year’s Mardi Gras Ball, held at California Hall in San Francisco on January 1, 1965. Photos from the Citizen’s News, in the Periodicals Collection of the GLBT Historical Society.” [San […]
Click here to view this CLGS Lavender Lunch! Queer Indigenous/Two Spirit life has been in a biopolitical war of survival with the violent encroachment of heteropatriarchy and settler colonialism on our lands, spiritual practices, family formations, and education. How do we strive for thrival in times of survival? Is this even a worthy goal in […]
1 December 2025 This Month in Queer Religious History* World AIDS Day On 1 December 1988 the first World AIDS Day was observed, marking a global moment of solidarity, remembrance, and activism in the face of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. For the LGBTQ+ community and its allies, this day transcends mere awareness: it has become a sacred occasion […]
1 November 2025 This Month in Queer Religious History* Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray On 8 January 1977, history was made when the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray became the first African American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest. Yet this groundbreaking moment was merely the culmination of an extraordinary life spent breaking boundaries of race, gender, law, […]
Click here for a video recording of this online CLGS event! In this Lavender Lunch theologian and librarian Keegan Osinski discusses her recent book, Queering Wesley, Queering the Church, (Cascade Books, 2021) and its presentation of a prototype for thinking about Wesleyan holiness as an expansive openness to the love and grace of God in queer Christian lives rather […]
1 October 2025 This Month in Queer Religious History* National Coming Out Day (October 1988) Every year we celebrate the 11th of October as National Coming Out Day, a powerful annual reminder of the importance of visibility, authenticity, and freedom for LGBTQ+ individuals. With roots in the political activism of the late 1980s, National Coming […]
1 September 2025 This Month in Queer Religious History* The Founding of DignityUSA (September 1969) In early 1969, a year that would see the Stonewall uprising in New York City galvanize the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, an Augustinian priest in San Diego was quietly planting seeds for what would become one of the most enduring […]