NYC’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade lifts ban on LGBT groups
NBCUniversal has announced that OUT@NBCUniversal — an LGBT support group for the company’s employees — will be allowed to march in next year’s St Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City under a banner...
View ArticleOpinion: Dispute Over Decency
Religious radicals are marketers of mistreatment, and it's time to call them on it The post Opinion: Dispute Over Decency appeared first on Metro Weekly.
View ArticleFirst LGBT contingent to march in D.C. St. Patrick’s Day Parade
When Dr. Pat Hawkins was growing up in Grosse Pointe, Mich. as a child, her parents always used to take her to see Detroit’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. “I had two grandparents who were Irish, so that’s...
View ArticleSecond gay group to march in NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Organizers of New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade will allow a second LGBT group to participate in next year’s march, just months after ending the longstanding ban on LGBT groups this spring, according...
View ArticleGay groups now included in NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade
—Brendan Fay, chairman of the Lavender and Green Alliance, a Queens-based LGBT rights group of Irish-Americans, speaking to The Washington Post. For years, parade organizers said gay people were...
View ArticleBoston St. Patrick’s Day Parade organizers invite gay vets group to march
Amid a backlash from politicians and the public at what some felt was discrimination against the LGBTQ community, the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council has reversed course and extended an...
View ArticleOpinion: Wearin’‘O the Rainbow
Pat Hawkins shares her thoughts on that it means to be LGBTQ and Irish The post Opinion: Wearin’ ‘O the Rainbow appeared first on Metro Weekly.
View ArticleIrish prime minister says gay people shouldn’t be judged for their sexual...
Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar said gay people should not be judged by their sexual orientation in a pointed speech delivered in front of Vice President Mike Pence, reports the Daily Mail. Varadkar,...
View ArticleMiss Staten Island banned from St. Patrick’s Day parade after coming out as...
Madison L'Insalata wanted to visibly support the LGBTQ community. She was banned from participating for "safety reasons." The post Miss Staten Island banned from St. Patrick’s Day parade after coming...
View ArticleLGBTQ groups blocked from Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade
The parade organizers of the Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade — scheduled for today March 6, 2022 — firmly maintained their ban on LGBTQ participants, according to a report in the New York Times....
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