Tag Archives: St. Patrick’s Day

Open Thread Thursday

One of out ten Americans has an Irish ancestor, including me. What’s your own background? RELATED: In 2010 I discovered my Welsh roots.

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The Real Housewives Of South Boston

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Irish Queers To Protest NYC Parade

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Irish Eyes

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Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore Rips NYC’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade

“What these parades are about is a celebration of Ireland and Irishness. I think they need to celebrate Ireland as it is, not as people imagine it. Equality is very much the center of who we are in our identity in Ireland. This issue of exclusion is not Irish, let’s be clear about it. Exclusion is not an Irish thing, …

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NEW YORK: Activists Call On NYPD To Boycott St. Patrick’s Day Parade

The world’s largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade takes place in Manhattan tomorrow and as always, gay groups are barred from participation. This year a coalition of LGBT groups are calling on the city’s cops to boycott the parade. Via press release from Irish Queers: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists today announced plans to protest NYPD participation in the New …

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No Gays? No Way! Ireland’s President Turns Down NYC’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Irish President Mary McAleese has turned down an offer to be the grand marshal of NYC’s 250th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade over the event’s long-running ban on LGBT participation. Efforts at a compromise where President McAleese could attend the gay-organized, all-inclusive St. Patrick’s parade in Queens on the weekend before March 17, and then march in the actual Fifth …

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Another Round For The House

Elizabeth Benjamin at the NY Daily News forwards her readers the above chart regarding the rules for lobbyists who want to buy drinks or food for members of Congress today. The accompanying email from the Lobbying Compliance Center begins: “In a town with many Irish pubs, it’s to be expected that Washington, D.C., would go all out for St. Patrick’s …

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Danny Meep

Today’s my 3/8ths lucky day. (Tipped by JMG reader Seth)

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Queens: St. Patrick’s For All

Here’s a slideshow from today’s LGBT-inclusive St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Sunnyside, Queens. It was a gorgeous day, almost t-shirt weather. Lots of well known folks and groups attended, from Mayor Bloomberg, Christine Quinn, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (mine!) to activists Ann Northrop, Brandon Brock and the folks at Marriage Equality New York. (That’s them in the green t-shirts towards …

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Today In Queens: LGBT-Inclusive
St. Patrick’s Day Parade

It’s a beautiful clear morning in NYC and later I’ll be taking my 3/8ths Irish self to the LGBT-inclusive St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Queens. You can join Marriage Equality New York and Western Queens for Marriage Equality on the corner of 43rd Street and Skillman Avenue at 12:30pm for the parade. Subway directions here. DADT activist/hero Lt. Dan Choi …

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Magicially Queerlicious

ABOVE: Irish Queers member JF Mulligan sets up. (Embiggen to read the banner.) Forget “Erin Go Bragh”, the real chant of today’s NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade was “Queers can march in Dublin! Queers can march in Cork! Why can’t queers march in New York?” Or at least that was the favored chant in the Queer Corral, which is what …

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