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Living Cornerstones: Sacred Stories of LGBTQ+ Employees in Catholic Institutions – A Conversation with the Authors | A CLGS Lavender Lunch

28 September 2025 by Breanna Sinclairé, Ish Ruiz, Shelly Fitzgerald

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! At this CLGS Lavender Lunch we explored the recently-published book Cornerstones: Sacred Stories of LGBTQ+ Employees in Catholic Institutions. Published by our colleagues at New Ways Ministry, this book offers a new anthology of 12 stories of faith, sacrifice, joy, and pain by LGBTQ+ people who […]

52 Ways #4: Regularly Affirm LGBTQ People and Our Families

26 September 2025

26 September 2025 This week we are emphasizing the value of positive messages. LGBTQ people and our families are exposed to homophobic and transphobic messages all the time — from preachers on the car radio, legislators pushing anti-trans bathroom bills, jokes around the water cooler, relatives who don’t understand, and on and on. Or people […]

This Month in Queer Religious History | September: The Founding of DignityUSA

22 September 2025

1 September 2025 This Month in Queer Religious History* The Founding of DignityUSA (September 1969) In early 1969, a year that would see the Stonewall uprising in New York City galvanize the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, an Augustinian priest in San Diego was quietly planting seeds for what would become one of the most enduring […]

52 Ways #3: Build Coalitions

19 September 2025

19 September 2025 Build coalitions with other communities of faith who are engaged in similar work and are LGBTQ inclusive! Working together in coalition can strengthen our work and remind us that we are part of a larger community. We can accomplish more together than we can as individuals. Find out which other congregations in […]

Queer, Called, and Conspiring: AAPI Theologies for a World on Fire with Prof. Lisa Asedillo | A CLGS Lavender Lunch

17 September 2025 by Lisa Asedillo

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! As crises of climate, empire, and identity unfold, queer and trans AAPI communities are cultivating fierce and tender ways of surviving, leading, and imagining otherwise. In this CLGS Lavender Lunch, Dr. Lisa Asedillo explored what it means to be “called” in a world […]

52 Ways #2: Be Visible!

12 September 2025

So you’re ready to welcome LGBTQ+ people at your place of worship. Fantastic! Now its time to let everyone know.

52 Ways to Expand Your Welcome to LGBTQ+ People and Our Families #1: Our 25th Anniversary Edition!

05 September 2025

5 September 2025 Welcome to the fifth edition of our popular weekly blog on 52 Ways to Expand Your Welcome to LGBTQ+ People and Our Families! Each week during our Anniversary Year of 2025-2026 we will post suggestions on how your faith community can become more welcoming to – and inclusive of – LGBTQ+ People […]