Responding To Ban On LGBT Groups, Bill De Blasio Won’t March In New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade

[kpete]

Responding To Ban On LGBT Groups, Bill De Blasio Won’t March In New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade
For the first time in 20 years, the mayor of New York will not march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said today he will sit out the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade because of organizers’ refusal to allow participants to carry gay-pride signs.

LGBT New Yorkers are allowed to walk in the parade, but they aren’t allowed to identify themselves by their sexual orientation.

“No, I am not planning on marching in the parade,” de Blasio said at a City Hall press conference. “I will be participating in a number of other events to honor the Irish heritage of this city, but I simply disagree with the organizers of that parade.”

His predecessors, Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani, marched every year that they were in office.


http://www.buzzfeed.com/clairepires/responding-to-ban-on-lgbt-groups-bill-de-blasio-wont-march-i

[hollysmom]

1. He can come to our town, we have a huge parade for a little town,

Usually we get the people who are not allowed to march in NYC and ours is 2 weeks early so they can go to both but march in ours.