Check out our September 2025 e-newsletter!
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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, […]
Our Fall 2025 Programming Calendar
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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 […]
CLGS Announces Our Fall 2025 Online Lavender Lunches
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 […]
Liberating Love: A Call to Defend Marriage Equality | 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
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+ […]
May Day, May Day!: Worker Solidarity and Black Queer Faith by Terence Mayo
Across the United States on May 1, working people stood together for fair wages, respect, an end to the assault on immigrants, and more. May Day, with its radical roots in labor resistance and global solidarity, demands a reimagining through the lenses of queer of color critique and Black queer theology. In the current U.S. […]