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10/5/15

Writing ourselves into history.

Thanks to Maggie Lally and Lisa Fane for the photo!
Here's a photo from our best-ever evening out: a warm and friendly toast at the end of a long, bitter road. Hooray for constant friends!

Incredible as it may seem, we now have to write ourselves into history. (We will, it's all good!) There are always the deniers. New Yorks' Irish and Irish American influential homophobes spent many years denying the actual existence of Irish LGBT people, and many more years denying our role in Irish home and diaspora communities. Some might have been happy enough to admit Irish gay people existed, but Irish queers and political radicals had to be cast as outside agitators: never really Irish.

For those who never liked Irish queers, it's easiest now to pretend that the parade committee just had a change of heart. Easiest to pretend the change has nothing to do with a quarter century of protest against the smallness of imagination represented by the parade committee and its politically-wired supporters. The work of pretending away Irish queers, activism, and the gains of civil disobedience has already begun in some of the reporting on the end of the parade ban.

That's a silly pretense, but it's effective. Wherever that story sticks, it makes protest seem wrong-headed. Instead, it routes all conversations about injustice through the boardrooms and backrooms that have created the injustice in the first place. There we become people who wait for change, know our place, never question the set up, nor the foot that kicks us, as the song says.

So our work isn't done until we secure the history, and claim the victory for refusing to shut up when told, and working outside the channels of power.

3/4/15

Thanks for a beautiful night.

Under a veil of snow, in a warmly lit cellar painted with murals of dancers, with full glasses, and in friendly company -- that's how Irish Queers and supporters spent last night at the Parlour.

Thanks again to Colm Tóibín, Sarah Schulman, and Charles Rice-Gonzalez for reading, storytelling, and drawing the connections between us all. Also to our surprise musical guest Susan McKeown, whose music and friendship have been part of Irish LGBTQ organizing in NYC since the beginning.

Big love to everyone who came out in the snow. It felt like family.


3/18/14

News clips from St. Patrick's Day protest!

Here's the big, serious round-up of NYC and US press clips from yesterday's protest! International press clips will be posted shortly. xo IQ
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Village Voice | March 18, 2014 | Anna Merlan
This Was The Gayest St. Patrick's Day Ever, Relatively Speaking

Village Voice | March 18, 2014 | Jenna Pope
Irish Queers Rally at St. Patrick's Day Parade (PHOTOS)

ABC News New York | March 17, 2014 | Dave Evans
St. Patrick's Day parade proceeds amid tension over gays

The Advocate | March 17, 2014 | Michelle Garcia

Al Jazeera | March 17, 2014
St Patrick's parades held in US amid gay row

amNewYork | March 17, 2014 | Morgan Lyle
St. Patrick's Day parade brings thousands to Fifth Ave.

amNewYork | March 17, 2014
Photos of the St. Patrick's Day Parade In NYC

amNewYork | March 17, 2014
Guinness pulls out of NYC parade over gay ban

amNewYork | March 17, 2014 | Dan Rivoli
Catholic League head calls for Catholic boycott of beer

Associated Press | March 17, 2014 | Meghan Barr and Verena Dobnik
St. Pat's parades proceed amid tension over gays

Associated Press TV via amNewYork | March 17, 2014
Guinness Ends NYC St. Pat's Parade Sponsorship [Video]

Associated Press via Wall Street Journal | March 17, 2014
NYC mayor honors Ireland's prime minister

Capital New York | March 17, 2014 | Sally Goldenberg
Amid disagreements, De Blasio celebrates the Irish

CBS News New York | March 17, 2014
NYC’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade Marches Up Fifth Avenue Amid Controversy [Audio, Video]

Channel 11 WPIX News | March 16, 2014 | Alyssa Zauderer
Guinness Beer drops sponsorship of NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade over LGBT policy [Video]

Channel 12 News Long Island | March 14, 2014
St. Patrick's Day Parade held in NYC amid tensions over LGBT inclusion [Video]

Channel 41 WXTV Univision | March 16, 2014
Desfile de San Patricio lleno de controversias

Christian Science Monitor | March 17, 2014 | Karis Hustad
Why beer brands side with gay community, not St. Patrick's parades

Christian Science Monitor | March 17, 2014 | Noelle Swan
St. Patrick's Day: How did it become a flashpoint for gay rights? [Video]

CNN | March 17, 2014 | Haimy Assefa
New York, Boston mayors back LGBT groups, reject St. Patrick's Day parades

CNN | March 17, 2014 | Richard Quest
Guinness: Ending sponsorship right thing [Video]

The Daily Beast | March 17, 2014 | Michael Tomasky
The Grotesque Ban On Gays In New York’s St Patrick’s Day Parade

Daily Caller | March 17, 2014 | Caroline May
Beer companies protest exclusion of gays from parade technically celebrating Christian saint

Daily Mail | March 17, 2014 
New York City's St. Patrick's Day parade attracts more than a million spectators including gay protesters along the route [Video]

DNAinfo | March 17, 2014 | Gustavo Solis and Colby Hamilton
St. Patrick's Day Parade Fills Fifth Ave. Despite Controversy

Fox News New York | March 17, 2014
NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade

Gay City News | March 17, 2014 | Andy Humm
With Fewer Sponsors, Anti-Gay St. Pat’s Parade Protested for 23rd Year

Gothamist | March 17, 2014 | Camille Lawhead
'No (Gay) Irish Need Apply': LGBTQ Groups Protest St. Patrick's Day Parade

Gothamist | March 16, 2014 | Rebecca Fishbein
[UPDATED] Heineken, Sam Adams Pull Out Of St. Patrick's Parades Over LGBTQ Ban

Gothamist | March 17, 2014 | Nell Casey
Stonewall Inn Restocks Guinness As Company Pulls Support Of St. Patrick's Day Parade

The Guardian | March 17, 2014 | Amanda Holpuch and Kayla Epstein
Ford among few remaining supporters of New York's St Patrick's Day parade

Huffington Post | March 17, 2014 | Caelainn Hogan
St. Patrick's Day Parade's 'Disgraceful' Message to Irish LGBTQ Community

IrishCentral | March 17, 2014 | Kate Hickey
New York City St Patrick's Day parade 2014 [Photos]

IrishCentral | March 17, 2014 | Niall O'Dowd
Bill De Blasio mends fences with Irish but no mention of parade

IrishCentral | March 17, 2014 | Niall O'Dowd
Guinness withdraws from NY parade, says they want to help find a solution

IrishCentral | March 17, 2014 | Patrick Counihan
Irish Americans upset with New York’s Mayor de Blasio says NY Times

IrishCentral | March 17, 2014 | Cahir O'Doherty
Welcome to your traditional St. Patrick's PR nightmare, Enda Kenny

IrishCentral | March 16, 2014 | Niall O'Dowd
Excluding gays proving disastrous for business for St.Patrick’s parades

Irish Examiner | March 18, 2014 | Mary Regan
Taoiseach ‘proud’ to march in parade decried as homophobic

Irish Times | March 17, 2014 | Simon Carswell
Taoiseach misses gay protest at New York St Patrick’s Day parade

Irish Times | March 17, 2014 | Simon Carswell
Taoiseach defends decision to march in New York parade

Latin Post | March 17, 2014 | Matthew Reis
St. Patricks Day Parade Celebrations and Scandal

MassLive | March 17, 2014 | Conor Berry
Gays are OK in Dublin St. Patrick's Day parade, but must remain closeted in Boston, New York parades

Mediaite | March 17, 2014 | Luke O'Neil
Guinness Pulls Out of NYC’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade over LGBT Snub

Media Matters | March 14, 2014 | Carlos Maza
Fox News' Defense Of Anti-Gay Discrimination At NYC's St. Patrick's Day Parade

Media Research Center - Newsbusters | March 17, 2014 | Scott Whitlock
ABC, NBC Push a St. Patrick’s Day ‘Controversy Hanging Over’ Gays Not Marching in Parades

Metro New York | March 7, 2014
PHOTOS: New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade marred by boycotts [Photos]

Mother Jones | March 17, 2014 | Asawin Suebsaeng
Guinness and Other Beers Pull Out of St. Patrick's Day Parade Over Ban on Openly Gay Marchers

NBC News New York | March 17, 2014
NYC Celebrates St. Patrick's Day With Parade Up Fifth Avenue [Photos]

Newsday | March 17, 2014 | Morgan Lyle
Thousands brave cold temps at St. Pat's parade [Video]

Newsday | March 17, 2014
NYC's St. Patrick's Day parade 2014 [Photos]

Newsweek | March 17, 2014 | Victoria Bekiempis
Guinness Opts Out of NYC’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade Over Anti-Gay Policy

New York 1 News - Time Warner Cable | March 17, 2014
Fifth Avenue Goes Green for Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade

New York Daily News | March 18, 2014 | Jennifer Fermino
Mayor de Blasio honors the Irish on St. Patrick's Day while skipping the parade

New York Daily News | March 17, 2014 | Caitlin Nolan and Ginger Adams Otis 
Raining on their parade: Fight over rights of gays to march openly on St. Patrick's Day dampens mood of festivity

New York Daily News | March 17, 2014
Patrick's Day Parade kicks off in New York City [Photos]

New York Daily News | March 17, 2014 | Denis Hamill
Hamill: Cheers to Guinness, the Pope for rejecting bigotry on St. Patrick's Day

New York Daily News | March 17, 2014
Readers sound off on the St. Patrick’s Day Parade

New York Magazine | March 16, 2014 | Margaret Hartmann
The Gay Rights Battle Over New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade: A History [Video]

New York Post | March 18, 2014 | Antonio Antenucci, Amber Sutherland and Lorena Mongelli
Huge crowds turn out for St. Patrick’s Day Parade

New York Post | March 17, 2014 | Richard Johnson
Boycotting Heineken and Guinness

New York Post | March 16, 2014 | Leonard Greene
Guinness ditches St. Paddy’s parade over LGBT ban

New York Times | March 17, 2014 | Robert Mackey
Murdoch Urges Irish to Boycott Guinness Over Its Embrace of Gay Rights

New York Times | March 17, 2014
A Parade Goes On Without the Mayor [Photos]

New York Times | March 16, 2014 | Ashley Southall
Guinness Withdraws Sponsorship of St. Patrick’s Day Parade

New York Times | March 16, 2014 | Michael Grynbaum and Nikita Stewart
Amid Mayoral Missteps and Snubs of Parades, Irish Eyes Are Rolling in New York

Out | March 17, 2014
Rupert Murdoch Urges Boycott of Pro-Equality Guinness

Politicker | March 17, 2014 | Jill Colvin
De Blasio Kicks Off St. Patrick’s Day With Gracie Breakfast

Reuters | March 17, 2014 | Victoria Cavaliere
New York's St. Patrick's parade marches on amid gay rights controversy

Reuters | March 17, 2014
Demonstrators protest as members of the FDNY Pipes and Drums Em march during the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York [Photo]
Demonstrators protest as members of the FDNY Pipes and Drums Em march during the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York [Photo]
Demonstrators protest as members of the NYPD march during the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York [Photo]
Demonstrators protest as members of the NYPD march during the St. Patrick's Day parade in New York [Photo]

Reuters | March 16, 2014 | Elizabeth Barber
Guinness pulls out of NY's St. Patrick's parade over ban on gays

Reuters | March 15, 2014 | Anna Hiatt
Beer makers drop out of St. Pat's parades that ban openly gay marchers

Salon | March 17, 2014 | Mary Elizabeth Williams
The fight for LGBT equality will be won with beer

Staten Island Advance | March 17, 2014 | Mark D. Stein
St. Patrick's Day 2014: Staten Island goes green at annual Fifth Avenue parade (with photos)

United Press International | March 17, 2014 | Aileen Graef
Irish politicians criticize U.S. LGBT exclusion in St. Patrick's Day parades

Vice News | March 16, 2014 | Mary O'Hara
The St. Patrick’s Day Parade LGBT Ban Is Distinctly American

Voice of America | March 17, 2014 | Adam Phillips
NYC Hosts St. Patrick's Day Parade

Wall Street Journal | March 17, 2014 | Michael Howard Saul
Without Mayor de Blasio, St. Patrick's Day Parade Marches On

Wall Street Journal
Photos: St. Patrick’s Day Marches On in New York City

Washington Times | March 17, 2014
EDITORIAL: Keep St. Patrick’s Day parades free of gay politics
De Blasio, Walsh want to make the saint’s day all about sex

WNYC Radio News | March 17, 2014 | Stephen Nessen
PHOTOS: Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade Picketed by Protesters

WNYC Radio News | March 17, 2014 | Kathleen Horan
Bratton Says He Marched to Honor NYPD Tradition, Not Against Gay Groups [Audio]

WNYC Radio| March 17, 2014 
Brian Lehrer Show - Irish-American Grievances

WNYC Radio News | March 16, 2014 | Sarah Hayley Barrett
Why the Furor Over Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade?

Associated Press Images | March 17, 2014
253rd Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade













Associated Press Images | March 17, 2014
St Patrick's Parade




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Compiled by:
Bill Dobbs

March 18, 2014

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