By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Rters) - Shamrocks and rabow banners waved on Tuday over the first openly gay group to march New York Cy’s ma St. Patrick’s Day para, but gay rights advot and elected officials lled for greater cln the event. Organizers of the cy's 254th para to celebrate Irish herage shifted their policy this year for the first time to allow Out@NBCUniversal, an anizatn of gay employe of NBCUniversal, the para broadster, to march the procsn up Fifth Avenue. "I will not be marchg, but I look forward to progrs the future," said Blas, notg the para, said by anizers to be the olst and largt such event the Uned Stat, was still not "open to folks who would like to participate who don't happen to work for NBC." Two dozen protters, some wavg signs readg "Who said St. Patrick was straight?", rallied on the sil of the para led by Roman Catholic Cardal Timothy Dolan, this year's grand marshal.
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- OUT OF STEP WH N.Y.C., STATEN ISLAND PARA STILL BANS GAY MARCHERS
- ST. PATRICK'S DAY: HOW DID BEE A FLASHPOT FOR GAY RIGHTS?
- TO GAY GROUPS, ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARA ENDS AN ERA OF EXCLN
- FIRST GAY GROUP MARCH NYC ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARA, PROTTS SEEK MORE
- GAYIFYG ST. PATRICK’S DAY
OUT OF STEP WH N.Y.C., STATEN ISLAND PARA STILL BANS GAY MARCHERS
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ST. PATRICK'S DAY: HOW DID BEE A FLASHPOT FOR GAY RIGHTS?
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TO GAY GROUPS, ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARA ENDS AN ERA OF EXCLN
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FIRST GAY GROUP MARCH NYC ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARA, PROTTS SEEK MORE
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Gay Irish-Amerins, still feelg the stg of discrimatn a after Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage, have begun to make headway their ph to turn St. Patrick's Day paras to a natnal Bill De Blas will be the first New York Cy mayor sce 1993 to boytt the procsn prott of para anizers’ ban on pro-gay plards. In 1995, the US Supreme Court led that the anizers of the Boston para were wh their rights to exclu the Irish-Amerin Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston, sce was a private public opn about homosexualy has changed dramatilly sce then, and gay marriage is now legal 17 stat and the District of Columbia.
That mak a difference, says Kara Coredi, executive director of MassEqualy, a Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) advocy group Boston. "To gay and straight Irish-Amerins alike, St. Patrick's Day paras are a pot of pri, and gay participants don't want to be pelled to hi who they are.