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((Short description|American writer (1936–2019)))
((more citations needed|date=February 2022))

((Infobox person
| name               = Louie Clay
| image              = Ernest_and_Louie_just_married,_8-22-13.jpg
| caption            = Ernest (l) & Louie (r) at civil marriage, 8/22/13
| birth_date         = ((birth date|1936|12|9))
| birth_place        = [[Anniston, Alabama]]
| death_date         = ((death date and age|2019|11|27|1936|12|9))
| death_place        = [[Newark, NJ]]
[[United States|American]]
| alma mater         = [[Baylor University]], [[Auburn University]], [[University of Alabama]]
| occupation         = Writer; emeritus professor; church politician
| years active       = 1959-2019
| known for          = LGBT activism, publications
))

'''Erman Louie Clay''' (né '''Erman Louie Crew Jr.''') (1936–2019) was an American professor [[emeritus]] of [[English language|English]] at [[Rutgers University]]. He 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 the United States of America|Episcopal Church]] in particular.<ref name="LGB">((cite web|url=http://www.lgbtran.org/Profile.aspx?ID=20 |title=LGBT Religious Archives Network |publisher=Lgbtran.org |date= |accessdate=2013-12-05))</ref>

==Biography==
Louie Crew was born December 9, 1936, in [[Anniston, Alabama]]. He has written about "Growing Up Gay in Dixie"<ref>((cite web |url=http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/growingu.html |title=Southern Exposure 5.1 (1978) |publisher=Andromeda.rutgers.edu |date=1996-02-14 |accessdate=2013-12-05 |archive-date=2013-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110180338/http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/growingu.html |url-status=dead ))</ref>

Crew graduated from [[The McCallie School]] (1954), and received a B.A. from [[Baylor University]] (1958) a M.A. from [[Auburn University]] (1959) and a Ph.D. from the [[University of Alabama]] (1971).

Crew taught at [[Auburn University]], [[Darlington School]], [[St. Andrew's School (Delaware)]], Penge Secondary Modern School, London, [[University of Alabama]], [[Experiment in International Living]], [[Claflin University]], [[Fort Valley State University]], [[University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point]], [[Beijing International Studies University]], [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]] and [[Rutgers University]].

Louie Crew Clay died on November 27, 2019, 12 days shy of his 83rd birthday.

==Activism==

While teaching at [[Fort Valley State University]], Crew founded [[Integrity USA]], a gay-acceptance group within the Episcopal Church (1974).<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.integrityusa.org/about-integrity |title=IntegrityUSA.org |publisher=IntegrityUSA.org |date= |accessdate=2013-12-05))</ref> With [[Julia Penelope]], Crew co-founded the LGBT caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English (1975). He served on the board of directors of the [[National Gay and Lesbian Task Force]] from 1976 to 1978. After he moved to Wisconsin, he served on the Wisconsin Governor's Council on Lesbian and Gay Issues in 1983.<ref name = "LGB" />

When 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.<ref>((cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/420491231.html?dids=420491231:420491231&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+08%2C+2003&author=Larry+B.+Stammer&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=The+Nation%3B+Episcopal+Group+Ponders+Split%3B+At+a+gathering+in+Dallas%2C+conservatives+decry+the+election+of+a+gay+bishop.+They+seek+a+parallel%2C+orthodox+church.&pqatl=google |title=Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2003 |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date=2003-10-08 |accessdate=2013-12-05 |archive-date=2012-11-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102221510/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/420491231.html?dids=420491231:420491231&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+08,+2003&author=Larry+B.+Stammer&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=The+Nation%3B+Episcopal+Group+Ponders+Split%3B+At+a+gathering+in+Dallas,+conservatives+decry+the+election+of+a+gay+bishop.+They+seek+a+parallel,+orthodox+church.&pqatl=google |url-status=dead ))</ref>

Crew sat on the Episcopal Church's executive council (2000–2006). He was elected by the Episcopal Diocese of Newark to serve as a deputy to six triennial national General Conventions (1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009). He was a devoted Anglo-Catholic and for many years a member of [[Grace Church (Newark)|Grace Church in Newark]].<ref>((Cite web|url=https://livingchurch.org/2019/11/29/pioneering-lgbt-activist-louie-crew-clay-dies-at-82/|title=Pioneering LGBT Activist Louie Crew Clay Dies at 82|date=2019-11-29|website=The Living Church|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-03))</ref>

Crew maintained a comprehensive Web site with information about the Episcopal Church and the [[Anglican Communion]].<ref>((cite web |author=Louie Clay |url=http://newark.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/rel.html |title=The Anglican Pages of Louie Crew |publisher=Newark.rutgers.edu |accessdate=2013-12-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906133625/http://newark.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/rel.html |archivedate=2008-09-06 ))</ref>  Professor Ed Rodman at the [[Episcopal Divinity School]] says that Crew's first and foremost contribution was that "he brought internet literacy to the church".<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYwd7h24L4c  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/QYwd7h24L4c| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|title=Meg Anderson Wagner's video "Dr. Louie Crew: The Episcopal Church" |publisher=Youtube.com |date=2013-02-10 |accessdate=2013-12-05))((cbignore))</ref>

==Marriage==
Louie Crew married Flora Mae Friedrich on May 25, 1968.  She was his freshman English student in the spring of 1967.  The marriage ended 5 years later in divorce.

Louie Crew married Ernest Clay on February 2, 1974,<ref>((cite web |url=http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/2grooms.html |title=Two Grooms |publisher=Andromeda.rutgers.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-12-05 |archive-date=2013-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227170114/http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/%7Elcrew/2grooms.html |url-status=dead ))</ref> although at the time [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|their marriage had no legal standing]]. They married legally on August 22, 2013 and Crew took on his husband's last name.<ref name = "LGB"/>  The two are featured together in "Not That Kind of Christian", an 80-minute documentary film by Andrew Grossman, which premiered at the Breckenridge Film Festival in 2007.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.ntkoc.com/ |title=Not That Kind of Christian |publisher=Ntkoc.com |date= |accessdate=2013-12-05))</ref>

==Queer Poet and Writer==

Editors have published more than 2,638 of Crew's manuscripts, including his most recent book ''Letters from Samaria: The Prose & Poetry of Louie Crew Clay'' edited by Max Niedzwiecki (Morehouse, New York, 2015) plus four poetry volumes: ''Sunspots'' (Lotus Press, Detroit, 1976) ''Midnight Lessons'' (Samisdat, 1987), ''Lutibelle's Pew'' (Dragon Disks, 1990), and ''Queers! for Christ's Sake!'' (Dragon Disks, 2003) <ref>((cite web |url=http://rci.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pubs.html |title=A complete list of Crew's publications |publisher=Rci.rutgers.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-12-05 |archive-date=2013-12-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203055030/http://rci.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/pubs.html |url-status=dead ))</ref> Crew sometimes uses the [[noms de plume]] Li Min Hua, Quean Lutibelle, and Dr. Ddungo. YouTube has numerous videos of Crew reading his own poems.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/LouieCrew/videos |title=Crew reading his own poems on Youtube |publisher=Youtube.com |date= |accessdate=2013-12-05))</ref>

Crew wrote the first openly LGBT materials ever published by ''Christianity & Crisis'', ''Change Magazine'' ''[[Chronicle of Higher Education]]'', ''FOR'' ([[Fellowship of Reconciliation]]), ''[[The Living Church]]'' and ''[[Southern Exposure (magazine)|Southern Exposure]]''.  With [[Rictor Norton]], Crew co-edited a special issue of ''[[College English]]'' on "The Homosexual Imagination" (November 1974). He served on the editorial board of the ''[[Journal of Homosexuality]]'' (1978–83; 1989-2012).  He edited the 1978 book ''The Gay Academic'', the book ''Telling Our Stories'' and the book ''101 Reasons to Be Episcopalian''.

Crew's papers are deposited in The [[Labadie Collection]] at the [[University of Michigan]].

==Recognition==
* Crew received honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from [[Episcopal Divinity School]] in 1999 and from [[General Theological Seminary]] in 2003, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the [[Church Divinity School of the Pacific]] in 2004.
* He had been a Fellow for the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] three times:  [[University of California, Berkeley]] 1974, [[University of Texas at Austin]] 1977, and [[University of Chicago]], 1981.
* He was a poet in residence at Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico (1963) and at [[Ragdale]] (1988)
* [[Episcopal Divinity School]] established scholarship under his name.
* He was the recipient of the Bishop's Cross from the Rt. Rev. [[John Shelby Spong]], Diocese of Newark, in 2000.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.facebook.com/louie.clay Louie Crew on Facebook]

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