Join author Unoma Azuah for a reading from her recent book Embracing My Shadow: Growing Up Lesbian in Nigeria (Beaten Track: 2020), which traces Azuah’s challenging growth as a lesbian in Nigeria. In this book the author discusses how she navigated the paths of abuse, ethnic discrimination and homophobia in a hyper-religious and patriarchal Nigerian society. […]

In 2014 NCLR (The National Center for Lesbian Rights) launched Born Perfect: The Campaign to End Conversion Therapy by passing laws across the country to protect LGBT children and young people, fighting in courtrooms to ensure their safety, and raising awareness about the serious harms caused by these dangerous practices. Dev Cuny is a storyteller, […]

The 13th Annual | 2020 CLGS John E. Boswell Lecture: Enfleshing Eros, Healing Earth: A Queerly Christian Performance of Ecological Renewal in Three Acts Decades of religious debate concerning sexuality and gender have surfaced rich theological insights well beyond questions of inclusion for LGBTQ-identified people, including the vital significance of erotic desire for thinking and […]

As a traditionally nomadic and Shamanistic society, Mongolia has never adhered to a system of dogmatic rule.  There has long been an unspoken fluidity around gender and sexuality.  Soviet laws in the 20th  century introduced homophobic and transphobic rhetoric and ideologies.  In the ‘90s Westernization perpetuated stereotypes and spread the concept that queerness was a […]