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Mayor skips Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade over exclusion of gay vets
BOSTON — Boston Mayor Martin Walsh is skipping the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday because organizers are excluding a group of gay veterans.
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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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Gay, Irish, in Boston? The St. Patrick’s Day Parade is not for you
Let me begin by saying I’m not Irish – something my Irish partner Susan tries daily to not hold against me – and I do not understand the need for all the St. Patrick’s Day tomfoolery. That said, it is beyond my scope of reason to believe that there is not one Irish LGBTQ person in the city of Boston who wouldn’t love to march in their annual parade and celebrate their heritage and their service in the U.S. military…
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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 easing two-decade long ban on gay groups in St. Patrick’s Day parade
BOSTON — Organizers of Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade are easing their two-decade long ban on gay groups by inviting marchers from an organization that seeks to preserve marriage equality for same-sex couples.
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Boston police adopts guidelines on how officers should treat transgender people
BOSTON — Boston police have issued new guidelines on how officers should treat transgender people, a policy that one department official says is to ensure that everyone is treated with “respect and dignity.”
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Jason Collins joins U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III in Boston gay pride parade
BOSTON — NBA veteran Jason Collins marched in Boston’s gay pride parade on Saturday with Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy III, his onetime roommate at Stanford University.
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Boston police warn of robbers targeting gay men in bars, online hookup sites
BOSTON — Police in Boston are alerting the LGBT community of an ongoing investigation of several robberies in the area targeting gay men.