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Dear Bill de Blasio: there are better reasons to boycott the St Patrick's Day parade

This ghastly event seems to be the only one of New York's many national parades in which gay advocacy groups have any interest

8 March 2014

9:00 AM

8 March 2014

9:00 AM

The new mayor of New York, who despite his name (Bill de Blasio) claims Irish ancestry, is boycotting this month’s St Patrick’s Day Parade because its organisers refuse to allow a contingent of gays and lesbians to march up Fifth Avenue as an identifiable group bearing the insignia of gay pride.

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