LibGuides: LGBTQ Studies: Home

This guide offers insights for religious leaders on LGBTQ+ communities, including tools to navigate the library's collections, resources for leaders available for purchase, what's freely available on the web, and understandings of terminology and church positions.

Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries (ELM)

ELM, a parachurch organization, "affirms and supports LGBTQIA+ Lutheran rostered leaders and those pursuing a call to rostered leadership, while engaging allied congregations and ministries to proclaim God's love and seek justice for all.

ELM Resources for the Church and LGBTQIA+ Candidates and Ministers

Lutheran Guides to Welcome

ReconcilingWorks, a parachurch organization focused on full inclusion in Lutheran denominations in North America, offers multiple resources:

Lutheran Liturgical Resources

HRC Resources on Coming Out

The Human Rights Campaign has compiled several guides to issues or religion and coming out of the closet for communities of color. These include:

In addition to these communities of color resources, HRC also provides pamphlets on coming out within various religious traditions:

The land on which United Lutheran Seminary sits, and which stretches between its two campuses, is tribal land, inhabited originally by the Lenni Lenape, the Susquehannock, and the Seneca tribes. We honor those original caretakers of this land, and we pay respect to the original inhabitants of what we now call Pennsylvania. Acknowledging this history is consistent with the seminary’s commitment to welcome and equity, which calls us in Christ to repentance, reconciliation, and wholeness. Even though the sad history of colonization cannot be undone, this land acknowledgement is one small way for us to remember what happened here, to understand our part in this story, and to develop a more healthy relationship with the land and its original inhabitants.