Irish Queers Protest At St. Patrick's Day Parade
As the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade marches up Fifth Avenue today, an annual protest will take place. The group Irish Queers will call out the NYPD's participation in the event, which they say on their website "was redesigned so that anti-gay bigots could parade using the church's special right to discriminate." Protests have been occurring for 21 years, however, Irish Queers member Emmaia Gelman said that now her group is not fighting against parade organizer's right to exclude openly gay and lesbian people from participating. "This protest about not allowing them to have it both ways," she told Runnin' Scared. "It's can't be both a religious anti-gay procession and include all the public servants." ![]()
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