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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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Historic Stonewall Inn to drop Guinness beer over NYC parade sponsorship
NEW YORK — New York’s historic Stonewall Inn, site of the Stonewall riots of 1969 which is widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the modern gay rights movement, will drop Guinness beer from its shelves on Monday following the beer company’s decision to stand by its sponsorship of the city’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
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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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Barilla (‘gays can go an eat another brand’) Pasta launches NYC restaurant
NEW YORK — Barilla pasta, whose chairman came under fire last year when he said gay “can go an eat another brand” of pasta because his family-friendly company would never feature a same-sex couple in its advertising, has opened a new restaurant in New York.
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Victims in NYC subway hate crime say no one came to their assistance
NEW YORK — The victims of an alleged anti-gay hate crime on a Manhattan subway platform over the weekend are speaking out, and say they are disappointed that none of the more than 50 people nearby called police or came to their assistance.
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Gay couple attacked at NY subway by man shouting ‘Are you faggots?’
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department has issued a sketch of a man accused of an anti-gay hate crime in a Manhattan subway station early Sunday morning.
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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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LGBT activists protest Russia’s anti-gay laws at final USOC Olympic event
NEW YORK — Nearly three dozen members of the gay rights activist group Queer Nation held a raucous protest on Sunday at the United States Olympic Committee’s final “Road to Sochi Tour” event at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan.
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Leader of NYC street gang pleads guilty in brutal 2010 anti-gay attack
NEW YORK — The reputed leader of a New York City street gang has pleaded guilty in a beating authorities called one of the worst cases of anti-gay violence in the city’s history.
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N.Y. radio hosts suspended over homophobic parent hoax
NEW YORK — Two Long Island radio personalities have been suspended over an on-air hoax about a homophobic parent.