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(New York City) There will be no pink shamrocks again this year at New York's St. Patrick's Day Parade. Members of the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization remain barred from taking part in the annual parade down Fifth Avenue.
As in past years gays will be relegated to a barricaded area along the route where will be allowed to protest against the Ancient Order of Hibernians which organizes the parade.
More than a decade ago a federal judge ruled that the organization could bar the gay group on the grounds of religious freedom.
The organization has been told the ILGO that its members could march as individuals but not under the gay banner.
Last year some of the protestors chanted "We're here, we're queer, we'll be here every year," as the parade marched by.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is refusing to march in this year's parade. Quinn who is a lesbian and the second highest ranking city official, said she had considered marching this year, if she could do so openly.
The Order of Hibernians said no.
Also missing, for the second year in a row will be gubernatorial front-runner Eliot Spitzer. The Democratic attorney general, will attend a special mass, however, at St. Patrick's Cathedral for Mass.
His office said Spitzer won't be at the parade because he has a prior commitment in Buffalo. Irish groups have criticized his decision but it was welcomed by LGBT rights groups.
Sen. Hillary Clinton, who is running for reelection this year, will be marching. Clinton came under fire last month from the head of the state's largest LGBT civil rights organization.
Alan Van Capelle, Pride Agenda's executive director in a confidential memo to the group's board members, called for an end to financial support of Clinton's re-election campaign because of her refusal to support same-sex marriage.
©365Gay.com 2006
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