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Sam Adams pulls sponsorship of Boston St. Patrick’s parade for excluding gays
BOSTON — The maker of Sam Adams beer says it is withdrawing its sponsorship of Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade because organizers exclude gay groups.
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Gay veterans give up on efforts to march in Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade
BOSTON — A gay rights advocacy group says it is ending its efforts to get organizers of Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade to allow gay military veterans to march.
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Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade organizers bar gay veterans group
BOSTON — Boston’s mayor is hoping a deal can still be reached to allow a gay group to march in the city’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, even after organizers said they were deceived by a gay veterans group and ended negotiations.
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Deal held up over gays marching in Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade
BOSTON — A gay rights advocacy group said Monday that it is pushing for gay people to be allowed to march “openly and honestly” in Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, but an agreement has not been reached with parade organizers.
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Boston mayor to boycott St. Patrick’s Day parade if gay groups are excluded
BOSTON — Boston’s mayor says he will boycott the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade unless gay groups are allowed to participate.
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De Blasio to skip NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade over ban on gay pride signs
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he won’t be marching in the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade because organizers refuse to allow participants to carry gay pride signs.
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LGBT groups to once again participate in annual Vietnamese Tet parade
WESTMINSTER, Calif. — Community members have voted to once again include gay and lesbian residents in Orange County’s annual Vietnamese new year’s parade.
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Rose Parade hosts its first same-sex wedding atop giant wedding cake float
PASADENA, Calif. — Standing atop a giant wedding cake float, Aubrey Loots and Danny Leclair exchanged vows New Year’s Day in the first same-sex marriage during the Tournament of Roses Parade.
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Rose Parade will go on with gay wedding, despite San Diego woman’s boycott
PASADENA, Calif. — A San Diego woman calling for a boycott of the annual New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses Parade, because two Los Angeles men will be married atop a float themed “Love is the Best Protection.”
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Calif. city approves Vietnamese parade despite exclusion of gay residents
WESTMINSTER, Calif. — A Southern California city granted a private group a permit Wednesday night to hold a Vietnamese new year’s parade, despite objections over its exclusion of the community’s gay and lesbian residents.