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Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade marshal will march with gay veterans group
Magoon said last week he wouldn’t participate this year after the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council voted to exclude OutVets.
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St. Patrick’s parade organizers will allow gay vets to march
The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council announced that it had signed an “acceptance letter” that would clear the way for OutVets to participate.
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St. Patrick’s Day parade organizers will reconsider allowing gay group to march
Organizers are scrambling to mitigate fallout after Boston’s mayor and the chief marshall announced they would drop out if the gay veterans group wasn’t included.
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LGBTQ veterans group denied entry in Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade
While the organizers went to the Supreme Court to defend their right to exclude LGBT groups from the parade, they had allowed the veterans to march before.
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Historic first: Gay groups march in Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade
Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade made history Sunday as two gay and lesbian groups marched after decades of opposition that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Gay, transgender veterans march for the first time in Boston Veterans Day parade
BOSTON — Massachusetts marked Veterans Day on Tuesday with commemorations around the state, including a parade in Boston in which gay and transgender veterans were allowed to march for the first time. OutVets, a recently-formed group representing LGBT military veterans, had about 20 marchers in Tuesday afternoon’s parade …