St. Patrick’s Day

The application to march states the parade does not allow the promotion of “sexual identification agendas.”

Long before gays and lesbians were fighting for the right to participate in cities like Boston, New York City and Chicago, an unlikely state capital welcomed LGBTQ marchers with open arms.

He said that he isn’t judged for his sexuality, something only possible in countries that love “freedom and liberty.”

Mike Pence thought he’d see green at the St. Patrick’s Day parade. Instead he saw rainbows everywhere.

Ireland’s patron saint may have had a long term intimate relationship with a man.

The group wasn’t even allowed to say why they wanted to march before the host committee turned them down.

Police say that the man verbally harassed two transgender women walking into a McDonald’s Friday afternoon before launching into a violent assault that sent one woman to the hospital.

The South Boston Allied War Veterans Council announced that it had signed an “acceptance letter” that would clear the way for OutVets to participate.

Organizers are scrambling to mitigate fallout after Boston’s mayor and the chief marshall announced they would drop out if the gay veterans group wasn’t included.

While the organizers went to the Supreme Court to defend their right to exclude LGBT groups from the parade, they had allowed the veterans to march before.

“We want this to be our most inclusive parade ever,” the new parade chairman told reporters.

According to his daughter, 85-year-old John Hurley “just slipped away.”

The parade’s board of directors announced Tuesday that it has selected the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender group called The Lavender & Green Alliance.

After ending a long and controversial ban on gay groups this year, the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade has new leadership and plans to add another gay contingent to its ranks, organizers said Wednesday.

Why does it matter whether or not gays are allowed to march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade? Don’t they have enough parades of their own?

Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade made history Sunday as two gay and lesbian groups marched after decades of opposition that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

This is the first year that parade organizers have allowed groups representing the gay community to participate in the parade, which draws as many as a million spectators to South Boston.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s support for same-sex marriage was listed among the reasons the church would no longer take part in the event.

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.

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.