5 September 2025 Welcome to the fifth edition of our popular weekly blog on 52 Ways to Expand Your Welcome to LGBTQ+ People and Our Families! Each week during our Anniversary Year of 2025-2026 we will post suggestions on how your faith community can become more welcoming to – and inclusive of – LGBTQ+ People […]
Click here for a link to a video recording of this CLGS Transgender Roundtable event! In this workshop, members of the Trans Religious Leadership Cohort explored how rituals can be sources of collective and individual power, especially in times of transition. In addition, We Cohort members drew upon the deep histories of queer communities adeptly creating […]
Click here for a video recording of this CLGS African American Roundtable workshop! In a political climate that continues to dehumanize and erase Black Trans and Quare lives, how do we cultivate hope that is not just survival but a radical act of reimagining our futures? This CLGS African American Roundtable workshop centered Black Trans voices, […]
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 to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! In this CLGS Lavender Lunch, we continued the exploration of communities of color living with the intersecting realities of queer identity and religious faith by focusing on LGBTQ organizing within Muslim communities. Our speaker, Muhsin Hendricks [1967-2025], was an Islamic Scholar and an Imam […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch The Rainbow in the Seventh-day Adventist Church: The Nuances of Queer Identity and Activism in a Second Great Awakening Denomination In this first CLGS Lavender Lunch of 2025 Chris Ngugi (he/him), a member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, shares with us his ministry with The Rainbow […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Queering the 2024 Vote workshop! A CLGS Queering the 2024 Vote* Workshop Series ❦ Sitting in Stillness and Prayer is an online retreat space intended to provide an opportunity for meditation, reflection, and shared presence as we approach Election Day 2024. Drawing from both Buddhist and […]