“What makes it even worse is the stone-cold way ,” Garrison said. “He wouldn’t even accept an application out of my hands,” the retired NYPD cop said. Joyce Garrison, corresponding secretary for the Gay Officers Action League which represents LGBTQ members of law enforcement, told The Post that Cummings refused her group as well. “I’ve never wanted to disparage the parade, I want to be a part of it,” Bullock said. “Our purpose is to show that we’re part of this community and we’re here to help people across the island,” she said. “This parade is not to be used for and will not allow political or sexual identification agendas to be promoted,” the application says in boldface type.īullock balked, “That’s not our purpose for marching.
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Pat’s parade after coming out as bi - still shows up The 2022 application to participate in the Staten Island parade forbids the touting of so-called “sexual identification agendas” by marchers. “You go to Ireland and there’s no issue with gay groups marching in the parade. “It’s unfortunate that the organizers continue the ban. white Members of the LGBTQ community want to march in the parade “to show that we’re part of this community and we’re here to help people across the island,” Carol Bullock said. Staten Island LGBTQ+ groups and local politicians are boycotting this year’s festivities. Diane Savino said she also will boycott the parade, as she has before. Patrick, the many Hibernians involved, the Parade Committee and the Pride Center certainly all share the same purpose: to ensure that no child of God, whether they identify as Irish, LGBTQ, or any other way, is oppressed, excluded, or otherwise treated unfairly because of who they are.” “I daresay that the true Irish Spirit of St. “I believe this misguided decision is not done out of malice, but from a misunderstanding about what both this day and the Pride Center stand for,” he said. “Once again, however, I will dutifully watch and cheer on the parade from the sidelines.” Diane Savino said the organizers are “wrong” to continue to ban LGBTQ groups. “During the upcoming parade, I will proudly don my green attire I will faithfully attend morning Mass at Blessed Sacrament Church and I will joyfully join my co-hosts in welcoming all to our annual breakfast at Jody’s Club Forest, as I have done for decades,” McMahon said in a statement. Richmond County District Attorney Michael McMahon, who co-hosts the traditional pre-parade breakfast, told The Post on Tuesday that he’ll be watching the parade from the sidelines, as he did in 2020.
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In 2020, the last time the parade was in-person, organizers even instituted a last-minute ban on Miss Staten Island after she came out as bisexual. I just don’t understand - why Staten Island?” “This was my fourth year attempting to apply,” said Carol Bullock, executive director of the Pride Center of Staten Island, Richmond County’s only LGBTQ community center, to The Post on Tuesday. Patrick’s march to ban LGBTQ participation. The parade, scheduled for March 6, has long been the city’s only St. Patrick’s Parade is once again refusing to allow LGBTQ groups to march under their own banners - prompting prominent local pols to vow to boycott the event. Patrick’s Day party is in NYC, not Ireland Patrick’s Day Parade is back on after two years Patrickīiden holds virtual meeting with Irish PM after dignitary’s positive COVID test Pelosi gets eye rolls for reading Bono poem comparing Zelensky to St.