Credit: Photo by Jeff Hahne


Opponents of the recently signed North Carolina House Bill 2 ignored the rain and rallied in front of the Charlotte-Government Center on Thursday evening for the Transgender Day of Visibility. Those in attendance called for the repeal of the controversial bill, which stripped municipalities of the power to protect its LGBT residents from discrimination in private businesses. 

Attendees held signs, chanted in unison and handed out “Impeach McCrory” stickers. The following photos were taken by CL editor Jeff Hahne before the rain really started to fall. 


Ryan Pitkin began his journalism career at Creative Loafing as an intern, later becoming the writer of CL's satirical column, The Blotter, and recently became the News Editor. Other publications he has...

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  1. Romans 1:24-32 states:

    Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
    For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
    And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving,[b] unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.

  2. Penned by the apostle Paul. Like everything else in that book, it was written by a man. You have only his word that it came from a deity. Depending on which version you have, it was either compiled in 325 AD or rewritten by King James in the 15th century.

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