Tag Archives: St. Patrick’s Day

Stonewall Inn To Drop Guinness Beer Over Sponsorship Of St. Patrick’s Day Parade
UPDATE: Guinness Pulls Out Of Parade

Via GLAAD: The historic Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the modern LGBT equality movement, will drop Guinness beer from its shelves beginning Monday, March 17 following the beer company’s decision to stand by its sponsorship of the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The Parade, which is the oldest and largest St. Patrick’s Day celebration in the country, prohibits …

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BOSTON: Sam Adams Yanks St. Patrick’s Parade Support Over Exclusion Of Gays

MassEquality points us to a statement from Boston Beer, the makers of the Sam Adams brand: “We have been participating in the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade for nearly a decade and have also supported the St. Patrick’s Day breakfast year after year. We’ve done so because of the rich history of the event and to support veterans who …

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IRELAND: US Embassy Says Americans Invented St. Patrick’s Day

From the YouTube channel of the US Embassy in Dublin.

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Irish Queers To Protest St. Patty’s Parade

From the Facebook page of Irish Queers: Join Irish Queers in protesting the 5th Ave St. Patrick’s Day parade which for over twenty years has banned Irish GLBT groups from marching in the parade with our own banners. This year numerous elected officials from Ireland and New York are refusing to march in the parade because it is such an …

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Bill Donohue: Gays Are Bent On Crashing The NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade

“It must be noted that the organizers of the parade, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee, do not allow pro-life Catholics to march under their own banners. Nor are NRA Catholics allowed. But just as gays can march, so can pro-lifers and NRA members; they simply must blend in like everyone else. No one feels victimized save for homosexuals. Besides …

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Bill Donohue Has The Sadz

Bill, everybody knows why you weren’t invited.

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Freep This Boston Poll

Right here. (Tipped by JMG reader Ken)

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QUEENS: Irish Drag Activist Panti Bliss Joins Gay-Inclusive St. Patty’s Parade

Many more photos are at Panti’s Twitter page. Also marching in today’s parade were NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio and members of the City Council, all of whom are boycotting the main parade in Manhattan for banning gay groups from participating.

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Quote Of The Day – Maureen Dowd

“I have long been opposed to gays marching in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Fifth Avenue. It isn’t because my father was a past national president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, which ran the parade for a century and started the rule that no gays need apply. Faith and begorrah, heaven knows I have nothing against gays. I …

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The Front Page Of NYC’s Irish Voice

The paper will run an interview with Panti Bliss tomorrow on its sister website, Irish Central. Today there’s a story about Panti’s appearance in the Queens gay-inclusive parade on Sunday.

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Bill Donohue Has The St. Patrick’s Sadz

“There is a growing contempt for tolerance and diversity in the homosexual community, and among their supporters, especially in New York. The latest example is the ruling by the New York City Council Speaker banning an official City Council presence, banner, and Sergeant-at-Arms in this year’s march. When a government agent prohibits the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, a tradition …

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NYC Council To Boycott St. Patty’s Parade

“St. Patrick’s Day has traditionally been a day when everyone can be Irish. Unfortunately, in New York City the Hibernians seem to have disavowed that old Irish tradition and have not allow LGBT people to march in the 5th Avenue St. Patrick’s Day parade under their own banner for more than 20 years. In Ireland, not only do gay groups …

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NEW YORK CITY: Irish Drag Queen Panti Bliss To March In Gay-Inclusive Parade

Fantastic news. Irish drag performer and activist Rory O’Neil, whose anti-homophobia speech as Panti Bliss went globally viral, will march in the gay-inclusive St. Pat’s For All Parade in Queens this Sunday. Via press release: Mayor de Blasio, who has marched in the St. Pat’s for All Parade for many years, will be joined by Members of Congress Caroline Maloney …

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Irish Queers Remind Us Of The 1991 & 1992 NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parades

New York City’s Irish Queers have posted a chilling flashback to the last time they marched in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade: Lest we forget where this all began, here’s video from the 1991 and 1992 NYC St. Patrick’s Parade. 1991 is the year ILGO marched in spite of the ban, with Mayor Dinkins, as guests of a progressive AOH …

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St. Panti’s Day Parade

After her moving and eloquent speech about homophobia went viral, a campaign was launched to name Irish drag queen Panti Bliss as the grand marshal of Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. But the chance of that happening appears to be slim. Organisers have said that the process to select who leads the parade “is well underway and this year’s Grand …

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De Blasio To Boycott St. Patrick’s Day Parade Over Exclusion Of LGBT Groups

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced that he will not attend this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade over the event’s long running ban on LGBT participants. De Blasio says he won’t partake in the traditional march along Fifth Avenue because of parade organizers’ refusal to allow participants to carry gay-pride signs. The new mayor’s predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, …

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Where Irish-Americans Live

The most-Irish metro area in the United States is Boston, with 20% of residents claiming Irish ancestry. The most-Irish zip code in the nation is in Breezy Point, Queens, at 54%. More stats: Twenty-two million Americans — 7.2% of the population — say their “primary ancestry” is Irish, according to the Census’s American Community Survey. Another 13.5 million Americans claim …

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Firemen In Drag Battle Truck Blaze

Two Minnesota volunteer firemen wearing evening gowns stopped off on their way to a St. Patrick’s Day parade to grab hoses and battle a truck fire. I learned about this incident while watching Illinois primary on Fox News last night. Their news ticker read: “Heroes In Drag.” Seriously.

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SLIDESHOW: St. Patrick’s Day Protest

Millions of spectators, hundreds of thousands of drunken, chanting, singing, vomiting douchebags. And in the middle of it all, the Irish Queers. Full-screen photos are here..

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HomoQuotable – Michelangelo Signorile

“It’s 2012, and in the state of New York gays and lesbians have full civil rights, including marriage equality. Moreover, gays are no longer banned in the U.S. military. But they are still banned from Fifth Avenue’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in an embarrassing throwback for everyone involved. “It’s frankly appalling that NBC, and now its parent company Comcast, …

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