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CINCINNATI, Ohio — Organizers of Cincinnati’s St. Patrick’ Day parade have banned the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) from participating in the annual event because they don’t want any gay and lesbian groups marching in a Catholic event.
Ricardo Martinez, the Community Initiatives Manager GLSEN, said his group learned Friday that parade organizers have barred their greater Cincinnati chapter and its youth leaders from marching in Saturday’s parade because “we have gay and lesbian in (our) name.”
GLSEN is an anti-bullying organization that seeks to eliminate prejudices based on sexual orientation and gender affiliation in the nation’s public schools and universities schools by spreading education and awareness of LGBTQ people and issues.
City councilman Chris Seelbach, who is openly gay, said, he was “floored” when he heard the news that GLSEN could not participate because of the holiday’s Irish Catholic roots.
“The city helps fund this parade, and the city has made it very clear that we will not tolerate any kind of discrimination against gay people,” Seelbach told Cincinnati’s City Beat newspaper.Seelbach and council members Roxanne Qualls, Wendell Young, Yvette Simpson and Greg Landsman have all announced they will not participate in the parade because of the organizer’s decision.
“Everywhere we go, we encounter parents and youth who need our support. Our visible participation makes a difference,” said GLSEN’s Cincinnati chair, Josh Wagoner. “We are horrified by the message this sends to LGBT youth, who suffer constant bullying and discrimination, that they are not welcome in Cincinnati.”
GLSEN has created an online petition in hopes of convincing the organizers to allow them to participate in the parade.
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Fuck the catholics all I can say. I am so sick of them. All you see is catholics against this catholics against that catholics raping children, just let them die out!
Please sign this petition! http://www.change.org/petitions/cincinnati-st-patrick-s-day-parade-committee-reverse-decision-to-ban-glsen-from-marching-in-the-st-patrick-s-day-parade
UGH!! They’re so backward down there.
“SHAME on THEM!
Don’t want to go to their dumbass parade anyway!
Oh, are they behind the times…
How in the hell are they going to know who’s gay or not? I’d be like fuck you too!
dumbasses, I’m not Catholic
Knight of Columbus. Go figure.
In the leprechaun world, it is more prevalent to be born gay. Straight leprechaun children have to come out to the parents, and hope society will not ostracize them.
of course they dont,, will scare all the alterboys away
Gay people are always there whether you want them or not. They are a part of society….
Sometimes I just wonder why people care so damn much about things like St Patrick’s Day parades, why we care so much about becoming mainstream. If there is one thing I never have been, will never be, and never *want* to be, it’s mainstream. St. Patrick’s Day is a semi-nationalist, religious celebration of a “saint” who drove snakes out of Ireland, and an excuse to drink. The alternative could be, of course, a totally gay St Patrick’s Day parade.
whaa?…
screw religions – if you trace all bigotry in history it is all based on religious beliefs — blacks and inter racial marriage – jews and the holocaust – lgbt people – women voting – women wanting to have a job – think about it
Wait. That is a Catholic holiday?
/sarcasm
Signed, Casey.
The Irish Catholic Church and its priests have always paid lip service to the rulings of the Pope and the Roman Catholics. Priests in small towns in Ireland often used to have a common law wife – their “housekeeper”. Pagan rites and spaces were usually respected. LGBT icons like Oscar Wilde were revered. This attempt to Romanise an Irish event is disrespecting their heritage.
Oh please. St. Pat’s hasn’t been a Catholic holiday since America turned it into a weekend-long binge-drinking marathon.
signed- and since when is St Patty’s day a catholic holiday?? fuck them all
St. Patrick’s is a drunkfest and we’re not welcome. Seriously???
The catholic church wants a “traditional” intolerant homophobic march celebrating the true spirit of catholic bigotry.
They don’t want us icky homosexuals in their “Catholic event” but all the plastered drunks on the sidelines and in the nearby bars are okay? And why is the *city* letting the organizers do this on a religious basis? Does the Separation of Church and State mean nothing?
pssh like i give a shit about drunk ass homophobic party they can have idc drinking is nasty any way
Religious bias makes for hateful actions! Nothing new…but don’t sit by and take it.
what can I say. there is a reason I don’t live in cincinnati.
what a bunch of dumb ass nimrods I think they need to test the air cause stupid is spreading every where
wtf
“Fuck the catholics all I can say. I am so sick of them. All you see is catholics against this catholics against that catholics raping children” LOL
bukkshit
Tell them they arer welcome in Wueens Inclusive St Pareick’s Day Parade next year. See our website http://www.sypatsforall.com
Catholic town, bigoted beliefs.
St Patrick’s Day is about Genocide anyway, not sure why so many people are intent on celebrating it.
obviously they want their parade to suck
they want their pedophile priests to march in it though.
Remind me NOT 2 Move there
why am I not surprised.:o(
Because there are no gay Catholics, except the clergy.
I’m Irish, and I don’t give a shit about the parade. But I wouldn’t mind meeting a cute guy there.
Boo!
are you kidding me? that sucks
so russia and the us have more in common than they thought!
both homophobes and hippocrates
What …??
People should boycott the parade. Would be funny if no one showed up to watch the homophobic asshats. Would serve them right.
Anoyjrt bunch of wretched villainy. Their god, Jesus, teaches love, while they teach hate. Assholes.
je pensais que les USA etait un pays libre
Like there are no GLBT Irish Catholics?? I have known lots and many of them felt very guilty because of all the BS they had been brianwashed with. OUT and PROUD folks it’s the only way!!
Didn’t this happen 20 yrs or so ago in NYC? Sheesh! Why is this still happening?
Shame.
Well screw the Cincinati green people.
If I was in Cincinatti I would boycott the parade or at least protest it