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NYC mayor to skip St. Patrick’s parade over policy excluding gays
Bill de Blasio says he’s not planning to march in the nation’s biggest and oldest St. Patrick’s Day parade unless its organizers change their limitations on displays of gay pride.
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New York City mayor marches in LGBT-friendly pre-St. Patrick’s Day parade
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told hundreds of participants at an LGBT-friendly St. Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday that a society for all is one that embraces and respects everyone.
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NYC mayor Bill de Blasio praises St. Patrick’s Day Parade decision
NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio has praised the decision to allow a gay contingent to march under its own banner for the first time at New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. But he has not made a commitment to marching in the parade himself. De Blasio said Wednesday that he’ll need to know more before deciding what he’ll be doing six months from now.
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Thousands celebrate in Brooklyn’s annual LGBT pride festival
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Thousands gathered in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood on Saturday to celebrate at the Brooklyn Pride Festival, and its annual parade, led this year by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, one of the event’s four grand marshals and the first NYC mayor to lead a pride parade.
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St. Patrick’s Day parades proceed amid tension over exclusion of gays
NEW YORK — A weekend of St. Patrick’s Day revelry and tensions over the exclusion of gays in some of the celebrations was culminating Monday in New York, where Guinness beer and the city’s new mayor planned to sit out the world’s largest parade celebrating Irish heritage.
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Guinness cancels sponsorship of NYC St. Patrick’s Day parade over gay ban
NEW YORK — Guinness announced Sunday it is cancelling its sponsorship of Monday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City because event organizers refuse to allow gay participants to carry signs expressing their LGBT pride.
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Heineken pulls sponsorship from NYC St. Patrick’s over ban on gay pride signs
Heineken announced Friday it has pulled its sponsorship of Monday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City because event organizers refuse to let gay participants carry signs displaying LGBT pride.
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NYC mayor marches in Queens’ gay friendly ‘St. Pat’s For All Parade’
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who plans to skip the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade because participants are banned from carrying signs or banners identifying themselves as gay, joined the gay-friendly St. Pat’s For All Parade Sunday, saying it honors the traditions of the city by celebrating inclusion.
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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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Quinn gives hearty endorsement to fellow Democrat de Blasio for NYC mayor
NEW YORK — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, once the most bitter of foes, stood side by side in front of City Hall on Tuesday as she backed him for mayor, sealing the endorsement with a hearty hug.