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San Francisco Bay Times correspondent Fernando Camino, founder of SuperFriends NYC, was in Queens on Sunday, March 2, 2025, for the 26th annual St. Pat’s for All Parade (https://shorturl.at/G6PSe).
Brendan Fay, a gay Irish immigrant who was concerned about the exclusion of the LGBTQ+ community from Manhattan’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, initiated the St. Pat’s for All Parade 25 years ago. Thousands, including city leaders, LGBTQ+ group(s), musicians, dancers, and more helped celebrate and raise awareness at this year’s parade about the Trump administration’s recent anti-transgender executive orders.
Grand Marshals for 2025 were singer-songwriter Judy Collins and Micky Murray, Lord Mayor of Belfast.
Among the attending elected officials advocating for the LGBTQ+ community was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who also expressed support for both Ukraine and Palestine.
“We’re here today to send a strong message that St. Pat’s is for all, New York is for all, and America is for all,” she said. “And we also know that our Irish brothers and sisters stand with Ukraine just as we do here across New York City, and we know, just with our shared history, that we will acknowledge and stand for those whose rights have been infringed, whose borders have been infringed, and ensure that everyone is protected around the world. We stand for democracy and Palestine too.”
The motto of the St. Pat’s for All Parade is “cherishing all the children of the nation equally. It was taken from the 1916 Easter Proclamation of the Irish Republic. It is a vision drawn from our past and a guide for our present and future.
New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade ended its ban on LGBTQ+ participants in 2014. Staten Island’s parade, the last such parade in the world to maintain this type of ban, took place this year with LGBTQ+ inclusion for the first time. http://www.stpatsforall.org
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Published on March 27, 2025
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