1. Louie Crew was best known for his long and increasingly successful campaign for the acceptance of gay and lesbian people by Christians in general, and the Episcopal Church in particular.
16 Facts About Louie Crew
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Louie Crew was born December 9,1936, in Anniston, Alabama.
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Louie Crew has written about "Growing Up Gay in Dixie".
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Louie Crew Clay died on November 27,2019,12 days shy of his 83rd birthday.
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Louie Crew served on the board of directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force from 1976 to 1978.
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When Louie Crew first began working for the inclusion of LGBT people in the Episcopal church, he was widely denounced and dismissed, but today the Episcopal Church has come to agree with many of his views, while some churches and dioceses are strongly opposed.
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Louie Crew was elected by the Episcopal Diocese of Newark to serve as a deputy to six triennial national General Conventions.
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Louie Crew was a devoted Anglo-Catholic and for many years a member of Grace Church in Newark.
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Louie Crew maintained a comprehensive Web site with information about the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion.
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Louie Crew married Flora Mae Friedrich on May 25,1968.
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Louie Crew was his freshman English student in the spring of 1967.
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Louie Crew married Ernest Clay on February 2,1974, although at the time their marriage had no legal standing.
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YouTube has numerous videos of Louie Crew reading his own poems.
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Louie Crew served on the editorial board of the Journal of Homosexuality.
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Louie Crew edited the 1978 book The Gay Academic, the book Telling Our Stories and the book 101 Reasons to Be Episcopalian.
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Louie Crew's papers are deposited in The Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan.