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3/22/10
3/17/10
PRESS RELEASE: LGBT ire as NYPD Commissioner Kelly leads anti-gay St. Patrick's Parade
PRESS RELEASE – immediate release Date: March 17, 2010 Contact: JF Mulligan 914-489-9204 Emmaia Gelman 917-517-3627 LGBT IRE AS NYPD COMMISSIONER KELLY LEADS ANTI-GAY ST. PAT’S PARADE; “IRISH QUEERS” INTEND LAWSUIT TO STOP NYPD & FDNY FROM MARCHINGNew York – Lining the side of the NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade with civil rights slogans and chants, the NYC-based group Irish Queers protested...
3/16/10
Dublin Pride reprehends New York City's Patrick's Day parade organisers
16/03/2010Dublin LGBTQ Pride has today criticised the St Patrick's Day Parade in New York City for its failure to include and allow representatives from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender groups to participate.The exclusion of these groups from the St Patrick's Day festivities is inherently discriminatory and un-Irish, the group has claimed."The exclusion of any groups from celebrating our national holiday abroad is deeply discriminatory and rooted in close mindedness", said Frank Cleary, chairperson of Dublin Pride."This is deeply un-Irish...
$inn Fein Hypocrisy
Once again, Gerry Adams lost his principles some where over the Atlantic between Belfast and Boston. Last weekend, Adams participated in the anti-gay St. Patrick's Day Parade in Southie and made a speech at the Clover Club which does not allow women. It should be noted than many local politicians boycott the Southie parade because of its homophobia, just as many local politicians do not go to the Clover Club because of its inherent sexism.Press was also barred from his speech at the Clover Club. He subsequently told the Irish Times:"Obviously,...
3/15/10
2010 St. Patrick's Day Protest Press Advisory
Date: March 15, 2010Contact: Emmaia Gelman 917-517-3627IRISH QUEERS PROTEST ANTI-GAY NYC ST. PATRICK’S PARADE FOR 20TH YEAR;PLAN TO FILE SUIT TO BAR NYPD AND FDNY FROM MARCHING.What:At annual protest against anti-gay NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Irish Queers announce intention to file lawsuit barring uniformed NYPD and FDNY from marching in 2011 and future years.Who:Irish Queers, NYC-based group that has organized protest against the explicit homophobia of the NYC St. Patrick’s Parade over the past two decades. IQ is joined by representatives...
3/14/10
Irish American LGBT Group Marching in Buffalo
Outspoken for Equality will be the first LGBT organization to march in Buffalo's "Old Neighborhood" St. Patrick's Day Parade. For more info, read this posting from Outcome (Buffalo's Gay Newspaper) and this interview with Kitty Lambert, one of the organize...
3/11/10
Annual Parade Protest
Please join us at our annual protest on March 17th on Fifth Avenue @ 57th street (on the west side) from 11am - 12pm. For more information, send us an e-ma...
3/2/10
Looking for LGBT Law Students
Irish Queers is looking for LGBT law students to help us with research for a new angle to challenge LGBT exclusion from the NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade. Please e-mail us if you would like to get involved. We promise.........it *will* be worth ...
3/1/10
From EDGE Boston: St. Patrick’s Day: NOT a great day to be Irish if you’re LGBT
"Private organizations, they said (Supreme Court), are protected under the First Amendment - even those that take up a large city’s main street for a day, cause traffic congestion, leave large amounts of refuse, include every public figure and huge contingents of public workers, and entail huge cost overruns for local police departments."According to this article in EDGE Boston, there are only 3 Irish/St. Patrick's Day Parades that welcome our community - San Francisco's St. Patrick's Day Parade, Key West's St. Patrick's Day Parade, and St. Pat's...