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Encore Screening (Online) of the 21st Annual International Queer Women of Color Film Festival

2 days ago by CLGS

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 […]

Our Fall 2025 Programming Calendar

27 August 2025 by CLGS

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19 August 2025 by Bernard Schlager

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Professor Ish Ruíz, PhD, Director of the CLGS Catholic Roundtable

12 August 2025 by CLGS

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 […]

CLGS Announces Our Fall 2025 Online Lavender Lunches

27 July 2025 by CLGS

Our Fall 2025 Online Lavender Lunches Program ❦ Tuesday, 9 September 2025 | 1pm to 2:15pm (Pacific Time) |ONLINE Professor Lisa Asedillo: Queer, Called, and Conspiring: AAPI Theologies for a World on Fire Framed through the lens of Queer AZN and Pasifika Critical Race Theory (Alvarez et al., 2024), this presentation by PSR Professor Lisa Asedillo (Pacific […]

Bishop Karen Oliveto is our 15th Annual CLGS Georgia Harkness Lecturer!

22 July 2025 by Bernard Schlager

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 […]

A New Book from CLGS: Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell

06 July 2025 by Bernard Schlager

31 May 2025 CLGS is proud to announce the publication of Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell. Edited by Bernard Schlager, Executive Director of the Center, this book contains 11 essays based upon lectures given in our annual CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture series. From the publisher, Routledge Press: […]

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30 June 2025 by CLGS

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Liberating Love: A Call to Defend Marriage Equality | by Bernard Schlager

29 June 2025 by Bernard Schlager

17 June 2025 The Southern Baptist Convention’s recent resolution demanding the Supreme Court overturn of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, is a stark reminder that the fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States is far from over. This resolution also signals a troubling denial of the radical love that […]

The Value of Gay Pride and the Gospel Call to Radical Inclusion | by Bernard Schlager

01 June 2025 by Bernard Schlager

On 18 March 2025, the Hungarian parliament passed legislation that outlaws gay pride events, even permitting the use of face-recognition technology to identify and penalize those who take part in such events. In an attempt to suppress gay pride parades, this hastily-passed law also attacks a cultural institution that is deeply treasured by countless LGBTQ+ […]