A le that prohibs gay groups om participatg the New York Cy St. Patrick's Day Para has been lifted. The cisn is a victory for gay-rights groups that have been prottg their excln om the para sce the 1990s. WCBS-TV's Tony Aiello reports.
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- GAY GROUPS MAY MARCH NEW YORK ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARA
- OUT OF STEP WH N.Y.C., STATEN ISLAND PARA STILL BANS GAY MARCHERS
- SAT PATRICK’S GAY ☘️?️?
- IRELAND’S GAY ST. PATRICK’S DAY: A STATE’S QUT FOR TRANSGENRISM
- GAYIFYG ST. PATRICK’S DAY
GAY GROUPS MAY MARCH NEW YORK ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARA
A le that prohibs gay groups om participatg the New York Cy St.
OUT OF STEP WH N.Y.C., STATEN ISLAND PARA STILL BANS GAY MARCHERS
The cisn is a victory for gay-rights groups that have been prottg their excln om the para sce the 1990s. C., Staten Island Para Still Bans Gay MarchersThe borough’s St.
SAT PATRICK’S GAY ☘️?️?
It also signals the return of a bter nflict over whether gay groups will be allowed to march. Organizers have long barred gay, lbian and transgenr groups om marchg the lol para, even after the New York Cy St.
Based on what they perceived to be public statements sympathetic to gay and transgenr people, para anizers ejected some proment dividuals, cludg Miss Staten Island and a Republin Cy Council member, om the para was nceled last year over ronavis ncerns, but now that is back, anizers have aga refed to allow L. McMahon, and Mayor Eric Adams, who has e unr fire recent days for appotg three men who voiced opposn to gay marriage to rol his admistratn. Employe of the New York Fire Department, and the Gay Officers Actn League, or G.
L, which reprents law enforcement Sm for The New York TimThe Pri Center’s applitn had been rejected for years bee para anizers sisted that promoted “a homosexual liftyle” that vlated the teachgs of the Roman Catholic Church and was at odds wh a celebratn of Irish inty, Ms. When end s ban on gay groups, Cardal Timothy M.
IRELAND’S GAY ST. PATRICK’S DAY: A STATE’S QUT FOR TRANSGENRISM
Ireland elected a gay prime mister 2017, and L. Groups have marched paras markg the holiday there sce the early para Staten Island draws thoands of spectators and is an important event for lol fai and bs, but recent years elected officials have mostly boytted over s treatment of gay Pri Center of Staten Island and G. More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn MB, Page 4 of the New York edn wh the headle: Staten Island Para Contu Ban on Gay Marchers.
1990: One hundred and thirty-five members of New York’s Irish Gay and Lbian Organizatn (IGLO) ask to march the upg 1991 St. ' and anti-gay ephets. Irish Amerin Gay, Lbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston.
2006: Christe Qun, newly elected as Speaker of the New York Cy Council, announc she will boytt the para after failg to reach a promise wh the mtee that would allow her to reprent both her Irish Amerin and gay pri. The mtee’s hop to see the then print of Ireland lead the para’s landmark 250th anniversary were dashed, and the ban on gay groups was wily believed to be the reason. “If the gay muny is not allowed to march, I’m not marchg the para, ” he said.
GAYIFYG ST. PATRICK’S DAY
Good old St Patrick is one of a surprisg number of queer sats and martyrs Christian history, givg gays, Irish or not, an exce to enjoy his day. In his book on Irish gay history, Terrible Queer Creatur, Brian Lacey prents some evince that Patrick may have had a long term timate relatnship wh a man:. Patrick himself may have had a relatnship tged wh homoeroticism.
This is a rather tenuo basis for a claim that Patrick was gay, but there is more om his youth. There are bishops who wrote ankly erotic poetry and love letters addrsed to each other, bishops who secured appotments to vant se for their boyiends, and pop who slept wh men, or missned homoerotic patgs om the great Renaissance artists.
Jt nsir: the next time you hear offensive remarks om a homophobic Irish neighbor or lleague, jt pot out to him: St Paddy was queer.