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Staten Island St. Patrick's Celebration to include LGBTQ+ groups in 2025
SI St. Patrick's Parade to include Homosexual groups
It took six decades, but the LGBTQ+ groups will now be qualified to march in Staten Islands Richmond County St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The decision follows years of opposition. FOX 5 NY’s Michelle Ross has the reactions to the decision.
STATEN ISLAND - The Richmond County St. Patrick's Afternoon Parade Committee will enable LGBTQ+ groups to protest in the parade this year for the first time in its 60-year history.
Now, they will be able to walk with pride in honor of Irish heritage.
"As a pleased out lesbian mom, wife, and advocate who was raised Irish-Catholic in Staten Island, this win is especially heartening. LGBTQ people are building families and thriving in all of our communities; and we should be free to celebrate who we are without apology in the place we call home," President & CEO of GLAAD Sarah Kate Ellis said in a declaration. "This victory has been long in the making, and I’m grateful to those who made it possible through their persistent advocacy and visibility."
This year's parade will take place on March 2
NYC St. Patrick’s Date Parade Finally Ends Discriminatory Ban on LGBT Groups
The parade committee announced that next year it would allow OUT@NBCUniversal, an LGBT support team at the television network that broadcasts the event, to officially participate under its own banner. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who has a long history of opposing equality for LGBT people, will lead the parade as grand marshal.
In coming years, other LGBT groups will be allowed to apply to march.
“We are pleased that the changes proposed by the parade committee will finally make it workable for LGBT Americans -- including Irish Catholic LGBT Americans -- to officially march under their retain banners,” said Sharon Groves, director of the HRC Foundation’s Religion and Faith Program. “The discriminatory forbid has been shameful, particularly in the very municipality where the LGBT rights movement got its originate 45 years ago at the Stonewall Inn.”
HRC earlier this year hailed the decisions of iconic brewers Guinness, Heineken, and Sam Adams for dropping their sponsorships of St. Patrick’s Date parades that perpetuate discrimination against LGBT groups
This is a Look at the Upcoming St Patricks Day Parade in Manhattan NYC, Including Photos of the Parades we've Covered Over the Years with Links to a Page Containing Photos and Descriptions of Some of the Best Irish Pubs in the Manhattan Borough
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The photo at right was taken at the St Pats for All Parade in Sunnyside Queens. This St Pat's Celebration was created to authorize LGBTQ folks to parade in a St Patricks Day parade at a time when all of the other St Patrick's Day Parades banned LGBTQ from marching in the Irish parades. As of March 1, 2024 there's only one St. Patrick's Day parade that continues to discriminate against people whose gender isn't totally traditional / binary.
Manhattan has Only One St Pat's Day Parade
Parades, Pubs and Restaurants in Manhattan NYC. Manhattan has only one St. Patrick's Day march, which we've covered a number of times. We've included a prior describe of the Manhattan St. Patricks Day Parade to provide you with further details of the exposure of attending. We've also included an article summary leading
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In 2000, the inaugural St. Pat’s for All Parade took place in the historically Irish neighborhoods of Sunnyside and Woodside, Queens.
The event, which still runs, was founded by LGBT rights activist Brendan Fay as an inclusive alternative to St. Patrick’s Day parades in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, which banned gay Irish groups from marching.
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Credit: Christopher D. Brazee/NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project, 2017.
Screen capture of Father Mychal Judge (left) and others marching with the Emerald Isle Immigration Center, inaugural St. Pat's for All Parade, Protest 5, 2000. Source: "All the Children Equally - St. Pat's for All" video, via St. Pat's for All website.
Screen capture of marchers holding the St. Patrick's Parade banner, which also reads "Queens, New York - Protest 5, 2000 / Cherishing all the children of the Nation Equally," inaugural St. Pat's for All Parade, March 5, 2000. Source: "All the Children Equally - St. Pat's for All" video, via St. Pat's for All website.
(left to right) Celebration organizer Daniel Dromm, unidentified child, parade founder/co-chair Brendan Fay, then-First Lady H
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