As NYC celebrates Irish immigrants, Irish-American and NYC racial justice groups protest NYPD’s role in deporting immigrants of color

PRESS RELEASE Despite “Sanctuary City”, groups charge that aggressive Broken Windows policing feeds immigrants to ICE – while NYPD avoids targeting white immigrants. New York – Irish American and NYC racial justice groups protested today at the NYPD Emerald Society’s post-parade party. Protesters demanded that the NYPD stop helping federal ICE agents deport New York’s immigrants by aggressively making arrests for tiny, non-criminal infractions. Groups included Irish Queers, Black...

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3/17: Irish cops should GET immigrant rights. Protest NYPD criminalization of immigrants.

Friday March 17, 1-2:30pm 50th St/West Side Highway, at Pier 90 Protest outside NYPD Emerald Society's St. Patrick’s Day party.  This St. Patrick's Day, tell the NYPD to celebrate ALL of New York's immigrants. Stop targeting communities of color. Stop helping ICE deport New Yorkers. Please RSVP if possible, thanks! https://www.facebook.com/events/681203075395042 ---- The NYPD officers’ union says they’re eager to...

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#NoShamrocks: Petition to Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Irish American Members of Congress  Irishmen, Irishwomen, and Fellow Americans: The enduring symbol of the United States of America is not the barbed wire fence, it is the Statue of Liberty. So please, "in the name of God and of the dead generations from which Ireland receives her old tradition of nationhood," boycott Trump's St. Patrick's Day gathering at the White House on Thursday,...

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Sorry not sorry! (Join us this St. Patrick's Day!)

This year on St. Patrick’s Day, we’ll be repping Irish America at a protest for immigrants’ rights, rather than at the NYC parade. Please join us! We’ll post details here, or you can email us for an update. Irish Queers marched last year in the 2016 NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade. We were thrilled that, after 25 years of protest, we broke the ban on LGBTQ Irish groups. Still, it was much the same parade as before. Simply adding queers to the...

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Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York

Join us this Thursday October 6th for the opening reception of The Museum of the City of New York's new exhibition highlighting NYC's radical queer underground art community past and present.  IQ has a few free tickets, so email:IrishQueers@gmail.com if you want to join us. There will be a panel discussion with Sarah Schulman and others beginning at 6:00 PM http://www.mcny.org/exhibition/gay-gotham ...

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Press release: Happy St. Patrick's Day, making history!

Date: March 17, 2016 Happy St. Patrick's Day from Irish Queers, making history together at the NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade! Irish Queers are delighted to be on this side of the barricades for once! We may be more at home with the circumstance than the pomp in this parade, but in this contingent we're surrounded by the NYC Irish LGBTQ community in celebration mode, which is a rare pleasure. It's also a sweet reunion of sorts, although many of us are missing: moved home to a much-changed Ireland, lost to AIDS and homophobia, or...

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What they wore: IQ's Gaby Cryan on "Closet Case!"

Seamstress and fashion plate Gaby Cryan takes to the airwaves on "Closet Case!" http://thebuzzmag.ca/2016/03/irish-queers-green-with-pri...

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Why we fought (This year we march! - Gay City News 3/16/17)

"This Thursday, Irish Queers will break with 25 years of protest against the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade and march up Fifth Avenue in the actual parade. Believe that we are overjoyed that we don’t have to protest anymore. As per the rules of the parade, we’ll be in “business casual attire” and will be stripped of any message besides “we’re Irish, homosexual, and finally in this @#$%^ parade.” "...Plenty of queers have asked why we...

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Updated: On the march! Joining in the Irish LGBTQ contingent in 2016 NYC St. Patrick's Day parade.

This March 17th, the first Irish LGBTQ contingent will march in the 2016 NYC St.Patrick’s Day parade. Members of Irish Queers and the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization will join the Lavender and Green Alliance contingent, along with many of the tireless activists who have struggled against exclusion over the past twenty five years, worked toward the day when the parade celebrates the depth and breadth of Irish community. The Lavender and Green Alliance will march with its banner, "Lavender and Green Alliance / Muintir Aerach na hÉireann: Celebrating...

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