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Is there any queerer or more wonderful way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than reflecting on our own mortality?

13 February 2018 by CLGS

By Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw This year, Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day have landed on the same day. When looking at these two events, I have a clear preference for one over the other. Commercials have filled the air over the past month, bombarding straight men with messages about straight women, “Show her you truly love […]

Gender Spectrum Conference and Professionals’ Symposium: Request for Proposals

13 January 2018 by CLGS

Gender Spectrum Conference and Professionals’ Symposium: Request for Proposals Thank you for your interest in being a workshop presenter at the 2017 Gender Spectrum Conference and/or Professionals’ Symposium. The theme for this year’s event is “Claiming My Gender.” This theme speaks to the way individuals make sense of their personal gender in the context of […]

“The plant of freedom has grown only a bud and not yet a flower”: Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

11 January 2018 by CLGS

picture of Martin Luther King Jr. addressing a crowd and the words, "Honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."

“What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best … is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see […]

LGBT Religious History Award Deadline Extended to December 11, 2017

29 November 2017 by CLGS

The LGBT Religious Archives Network is inviting submissions of papers for the 2017-18 LGBT Religious History Award. This award is the only academic award given for research and writing in the field of LGBTQIA religious history. The guidelines for submissions can be found here: https://www.lgbtran.org/HistoryAward.aspx The deadline for submissions has been extended to Monday, December 11, 2017.

Watch the PSR Trans Day of Remembrance chapel service

29 November 2017 by CLGS

They Will Be Remembered: What Resilience Teaches Us, Transgender Day of Remembrance Posted by Pacific School of Religion on Tuesday, November 21, 2017

We Remember, Mourn and Call for Justice: TDOR 2017

21 November 2017 by CLGS

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we join with people around the world as we commemorate the many transgender, genderqueer and gender non-conforming people who were murdered because of who they are, the majority of whom are young, transgender women of color. Their deaths are a great loss to our community and to our world. We […]

CLGS denounces transgender exclusion, affirms sacred worth

26 July 2017 by CLGS

The right of transgender people to work and support their families is under threat this week through the actions of the Trump Administration. Today, President Trump tweeted his intentions to not allow transgender people to serve in the US military, despite Pentagon studies showing little to no impact from the presence of transgender troops. This […]

Pride, Pulse, Puerto Rico: File under “R” or under “G”

26 June 2017 by Bernard Schlager

After the Pulse tragedy, I wrote a long Facebook post analyzing the media coverage and Episcopal Church response to the mass shooting. My post was about ways in which LGBTQ+ and Latinx persons had been erased from the narrative given the incessant and one-dimensional focus on the shooter and guns. The reality of who was […]

Religious liberty does not mean the right to discriminate

03 May 2017 by CLGS

CLGS is proud to be in solidarity with religious leaders across the country opposing legislation in Texas and other states that would legalize the right to discriminate. In a statement issued today, faith leaders across the country are speaking out against anti-LGBTQ bills. As a seminary-based organization comprised of people of faith, we have the […]

Latinx Roundtable Meets at Creating Change

19 January 2017 by CLGS

Gathering to continue their transformative work on LGBTQIA+ acceptance in the Latino/a/x community, members of Fe, Familia, Igualdad: The Latinx Roundtable issued the following statement: Faith, Family, Equality: The Latinx Roundtable condemns oppression and inequality and joins the anti-oppression efforts of the thousands of other LGBTQIA+ activists and allies at the Creating Change 2017 conference […]