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

Beginnings, Middles, and Ends (Rituals to Move you Through Transitions) with the CLGS Trans Religious Leadership Cohort

1 day ago by Jakob Hero-Shaw, Trans Religious Leadership Cohort

Click here for a link to a video recording of this CLGS Transgender Roundtable event! In this workshop, members of the Trans Religious Leadership Cohort explored how rituals can be sources of collective and individual power, especially in times of transition. In addition, We Cohort members drew upon the deep histories of queer communities adeptly creating […]

The 18th Annual | 2025 CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture: Professor Bryan Massingale Speaks on: James Baldwin and Black Queer Prophetic Lament (and Hope?)

25 May 2025 by Bryan Massingale

James Baldwin and Black Queer Prophetic Lament (and Hope?) Professor Bryan Massingale Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lecture! James Baldwin is often invoked as a seminal figure in Black queer thought, but he is still underutilized as a source for (white) queer theology and activism. This lecture situates Baldwin in […]

Creating Trans-Affirming Religious Communities with Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw | A CLGS Transgender Roundtable Workshop

06 May 2025 by Jakob Hero-Shaw

Click here for a video recording of this online CLGS event! This CLGS Transgender Roundtable interactive workshop empowers religious leaders, both lay and ordained, to move beyond the concept of “trans inclusion” and into a mindset of holistic affirmation for trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in your religious community. Explore with us the barriers to affirmation […]

Mestizaje Confronts #AmericanFacism with Jorge Aquino, PhD | A CLGS Latinx Roundtable Event

06 May 2025 by Jorge Aquino

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Latinx Roundtable Event! The restoration of Donald Trump to the presidency raises critical issues for Latinx people in the US. Where do anti-racist, sex-positive, Latinx people go from here? In this CLGS Latinx Roundtable event, Professor Jorge Aquino (University of San Francisco) proposes a theo-politics response […]

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

18 April 2025 by Bernard Schlager

15 April 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: […]

Queering Easter to Pentecost | A CLGS Sacred Texts Workshop with Revs. Lauren Bennett and Jakob Hero-Shaw

17 April 2025 by Jakob Hero-Shaw, Lauren Bennett

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Sacred Texts Workshop! In this CLGS Sacred Texts Workshop we explored methods of queering texts for Holy Week, Easter, Eastertide, and Pentecost! Let’s avoid the post-Easter slump and bring some queerness to the season of Eastertide. In this interactive webinar, we queered the texts, rituals, […]

Living in Tension: Queer Identities and Navigating the Fundamentalist Church with Dr. Eric Hess | A CLGS Lavender Lunch

06 April 2025 by Eric Hess

Click here to view a video recording of this CLGS Lavender Lunch! This CLGS Lavender Lunch workshop delved into Dr. Eric Hess’ qualitative research on the experiences of Queer current and former students navigating fundamentalist Christian educational institutions. Dr. Hess’ analysis focuses, in particular, on the varying degrees of hidden and overt allyship and hostility […]