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 […]
Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event! From the 17th to 19th centuries, European Judaism witnessed an eruption of ecstasy and eros in a series of heretical and quasi-heretical movements beginning with the failed messiahs Sabbetai Zevi (1626-76) and Jacob Frank (1726-1791), and continuing through the ‘domestication’ of […]
Click here to view a recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! In this online CLGS Lavender Lunch Maij Mai explores what possibilities can exist when cultivating spiritual/faith-based exploration and formation spaces, particularly for marginalized communities whose experiences do not align with institutionalized faith-based spaces, communities, and traditions. Maij also considers a variety of decolonial possibilities in […]
Click here for a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event! In this online CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event, Andrew Ramer, Rabbi Jay Michaelson, and Bernie Schlager discuss aspects of gay male spirituality, using Ramer’s recent book Two Hearts Dancing: A Spiritual Journeybook for Gay Men as a springboard for discussion and conversation. “The […]
Click here for a video recording of this CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture Queer Bodies: Colliding, Expanding, Flourishing Professor Rolf Nolasco The 15th Annual CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture Recorded on Thursday, 21 April 2022 Tagging queer bodies as intrinsically disordered, unholy, and perverse collides with the intimate knowing that this body, this queer flesh with all its […]
Click here to view a video recording of this online CLGS Lavender Lunch! The intersection of faith and spirituality with gender and sexuality provides both a history of trauma and a precedent for inclusion. In this online CLGS Lavender Lunch, Tahil Sharma explores the ways that the current interfaith movement makes it possible for religious and […]