It’s 2022 & the St. Patricks Day parade still bans LGBTQ people from marching

St Patrick’s Day Parade, Vancouver BC
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The annual Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade will return this year after COVID-19 kept the annual tradition from taking place in 2021. And in keeping with the parade’s longstanding tradition, LGBTQ people will be banned from participating.

In all caps, the 2022 application form declares, “THIS PARADE IS NOT TO BE USED FOR AND WILL NOT ALLOW POLITICAL OR SEXUAL IDENTIFICATION AGENDAS TO BE PROMOTED. It also states that a group can only march if it “does not stand, in any way, in opposition to, or contradict, the Teachings and Tenets of the Catholic Church.”

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For years, parade organizers and LGBTQ activists and allies have battled over these discriminatory policies. LGBTQ people were also banned for 20 years from the parade that takes place in Manhattan – the biggest St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the world – but that ban ended in 2014.

In Staten Island, on the other hand, restrictions only seem to be getting more intense.

Not only have LGBTQ groups been banned from marching, but so have…

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