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Don’t Tell Us It’ll Probably Be Fine | by Jakob Hero-Shaw
5 October 2025 Your trans friends are scared. Our fears are fueled by new laws and by the uncertainty of what’s coming next. We see the risk of losing our health care. We live under restrictions in schools, in sports, and in restrooms. And when political leaders and organizations paint trans people as “dangerous,” it […]
LGBTQ-RAN: Holy Troublemakers | An online GALA Celebration
CLGS is proud to serve as a partner in support of the LGBTQ-Religious Archive Network’s online Gala Celebration. This online event will take place on Sunday, 19 October 2025. For more information and to register, click here.
Join us on online THIS THURSDAY, 9 Oct 2025 @ 4pm (Pacific): Bishop Karen Oliveto is our 15th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecturer
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Click here to register in advance for this ONLINE lecture The Hopes and Fears of All the World Are Met in Thee: Identity’s Liberating Power with Bishop Karen Oliveto The 15th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecture Thursday, 9 October 2025 at 4pm (Pacific Time) This will be an ONLINE Lecture Join the Center for LGBTQ […]
Our Fall 2025 Programming Calendar
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Faith as Liberation: CLGS at 25 Years of Life-Saving Work… and Counting!
1 September 2025 Twenty-five years ago this month, The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion was founded on a simple yet revolutionary premise: that faith and LGBTQ+ identity are not only compatible, but that religious leaders have a moral imperative to stand against hatred and discrimination. Today, […]
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Encore Screening (Online) of the 21st Annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival
As a proud community sponsor of the annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival for many years, CLGS highly recommends this encore screening of the 21st Annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival. These films will be available to view online from 11-16 September 2025. To view the films Who’ll Stop the Rain and/or […]
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Professor Ish Ruíz, PhD, Director of the CLGS Catholic Roundtable
1 August 2025 CLGS is proud to announce that PSR Professor Ish Ruíz, PhD, has been appointed Director of the CLGS Catholic Roundtable, the newest of our Roundtable projects. As he assumes the leadership of this Roundtable, Professor Ruíz writes: “I envision a Church and a world that cherishes the diversity of gifts people of […]