300 people to march under Lavender and Green Alliance bannerMayor ends boycott after 25-year fight for LGBT inclusion in Irish paradeFor the first time since he took office as mayor of fresh York,Bill de Blasio will attend the nation’s largest St Patrick’s Day parade after organizers agreed to allow gay and lesbian groups to march under their own banners. Activists in fresh York gain fought for more than two decades to allow representation of gay Irish Americans in the parade. The controversy began in 1990, when the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization asked for permission to march and was rejected. David Dinkins, or fresh York City mayor at the time,skipped the parade during his last two years as mayor, a boycott De Blasio picked up again when he took office in 2014. Mayors Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg marched in the parade during their terms in office.
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Source: theguardian.com