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.

The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, which has long resisted the inclusion of gay groups, voted Monday night to allow the group OutVets to march in the 2015 parade.

Bill Donohue of the Catholic League announced Wednesday that the controversy over the New York St. Patrick’s Day parade’s ban on LGBT groups has inspired him to apply to march at the New York pride parade with a “Straight Is Great” banner.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.