Sexuality

Believing that a month should be dedicated to the celebration and teaching of gay and lesbian history, Rodney Wilson, a Missouri high school teacher, gathered other educators and community leaders to discuss the issue in 1994. The group selected October...

Barber looks at the way religion shapes HIV transmission, treatment, and prevention Darius (not his real name) grew up African American and gay in the socially conservative American South. Life wasn’t easy, but his mother loved and sheltered him. He...

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, HDS student Bo Clay chats with HDS Professor Mark Jordan, who has written extensively in the field of sexual ethics, about...

WSRP 2017–18 Research Associate Avital Davidovich-Eshed, PhD (Bar Ilan University), Visiting Lecturer in Women's Studies and Judaism, delivers her talk, "Enclosed Gardens Revealed: The Concept of Virginity in Medieval Jewish Culture."

Professor Mark Jordan writes about "sorting out a few theological confusions" over a recent controversial article in Teen Vogue.

Harvard Divinity School professors have long taught ethics in the Yard. Beginning early in the 1880s, as HDS pioneered the analysis of "social problems" using the case method, Francis Peabody taught an undergraduate course on urban ills. Students called...

Professor Mark D. Jordan writes about mourning in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

Since he arrived at Harvard Divinity School two years ago as an MTS degree candidate, it has been Danny Ballon's mission to prove that "gay" and "Christian" are not antithetical. And while HDS has long been an LGBTQ-friendly community, Ballon is...

WSRP Research Associate Jennifer S. Leath discusses gender and sexual aspects of Afro-Diasporic justice in the United States.

On November 13, 2013, Jacquelyn Williamson spoke about her research on the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti. Williamson is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and a WSRP Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer on Women's Studies...