CLGS provides a range of resources for the constituencies served by the Center in academic, faith, and activist communities.

Love Is My Sanctuary: A CLGS Lavender Lunch with Unoma Azuah

16 June 2022

Click here for a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch via Zoom! In this CLGS Lavender Lunch Unoma Azuah explores a variety of themes related to her experiences as an African, lesbian immigrant to the United States. She also shares excerpts from her recently-published memoir, Embracing My Shadow: Growing up Lesbian in Nigeria, and […]

Professor Rolf Nolasco: Queer Bodies: Colliding, Expanding, Flourishing | The 15th Annual | 2022 CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture

28 April 2022 by Rolf Nolasco

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 […]

Is Your Faith Community Safe for Trans Folks? An ONLINE CLGS Lavender Lunch with our Trans* Seminarians Leadership Cohort

07 April 2022

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! In this online panel discussion we explore ways that faith communities can become safer spaces for trans and nonbinary congregants, participants, and leaders. Members of our Trans Seminarian Cohort – and other trans and nonbinary panelists – will discuss some of the successes and pitfalls […]

Latinx, LGBTQ+, and Faith Communities: An Inclusive Experience with Ana Ester, André Musskopf, and Cris Serra. A CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation

12 March 2022 by Ana Ester, André Musskopf, Cris Serra

Click here to watch a video recording of this CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation! In this online CLGS Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation, sponsored by The CLGS Latinx Roundtable | Fe, Familia, Igualdad, the Rev. Dr. Ana Ester, Dr. André Musskopf, and Cris Serra, MA, talk about their experiences as Brazilian LGBTQI+ Christians and their research on the […]

The Interfaith Queery: A CLGS Lavender Lunch with Tahil Sharma

12 March 2022

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 […]

Gender: A Spectrum or an Angle of Deviation? with Fran Benjamin and Monique Cadle. A CLGS Jewish Queeries Series Event

03 March 2022 by Fran Benjamin, Monique Cadle

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event! In this online CLGS Jewish Queeries Series event, Fran Benjamin (he/she/they) and Monique Cadle (she/her) of Good Works Consulting host a conversation on gender, diversity and queerness, and their relationship to art, business, spirituality – and to their lives. Fran, a queer, […]

The Future Church for LGBTQ+ People and Their Allies: A CLGS Lavender Lunch with Benjamin Brenkert

24 February 2022 by Benjamin Brenkert

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! In this online CLGS Lavender Lunch, Benjamin Brenkert reflects on the future church for LGBTQ+ People and their allies. As a former Jesuit, he proposes the spirituality of Saint Ignatius of Loyola as a means for people of faith to discern membership in churches […]