Category Archives: CRANE News & Updates
Petition: Support Marriage Equality
On Monday, June 1, Josh Weaver will present a resolution in support of marriage equality to the Charlotte City Council. CRANE will be in attendance to support the resolution. Thursday-Monday, we are asking people to download this petition and get your friends, family and colleagues to sign it. Bring it with you to the Citizens’ [...]
Taking a stand, bringing it home
CRANE is organizing a non-violent protest rally and march on Friday, May 29. Join us in Marshall Park for speakers about Marriage Equality and join us as we march through Uptown to the Government Center.
On Monday, join us at the Charlotte City Council Citizens’ Forum, as a resolution in support of Marriage Equality is [...]
Where we go from here…
CRANE’s February events on Valentine’s Day and challenging the “ex-gay” ministries of Focus on the Family and Exodus International were a resounding success!
Dozens of community members — mostly youth — turned out to speak to hundreds of passers-by in Uptown Charlotte on Feb. 14. Fifty or more people attended Wayne Besen’s presentation “Pray Away the [...]
Community gathers to hear truth, expose lies of the ‘ex-gay’ myth
On Thursday, Feb. 19, a packed house at the Lesbian & Gay Community Center of Charlotte listened to author and activist Wayne Besen, executive director of Truth Wins Out, and learned of the lies and myths of the “ex-gay” industry.
On Saturday, Focus on the Family and Exodus International will present its “ex-gay” conference Love [...]
Uptown event a success
On the evening of Saturday, Feb. 14, approximately two dozen LGBTQI community members and straight allies gathered at Trade & Tryon Streets to speak to passers-by about equality and the rights of all people to love and to be loved regardless of sexual orientation.
Despite the chill in the air and strong wind, community members stopped [...]
Anti-gays, ex-gays make in-roads in Charlotte
Just two weeks prior to the Focus on the Family and Exodus International “ex-gay” conference Love Won Out on Feb. 21, the anti-gay American Family Association bought time on WBTV The CW station in Charlotte on Saturday, Feb. 7 for their one-hour special “Speechless: Silencing the Christians.”
The special focused primarily on attacks against the equality [...]
Welcome to CRANE’s new website
The Charlotte Rainbow Action Network for Equality (CRANE) is a grassroots coalition of activists and community members working toward civil and social equality for the Charlotte’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.
We are a gathering and network of community leaders, organizations and members from across the greater Charlotte-Mecklenburg region.
We meet occasionally to plan events [...]
