Turns out one group of openly gay humans polluting the sanctity of New York City’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade is way more than enough.
After allegedly lifting the centuries-old ban on LGBTs marching in the parade, organizers have confirmed that the one group they’ve approved to march in the 2015 parade is the only group that is eligible, mostly because that group represents the national broadcasting corporation that will bring the parade to America’s living rooms.
Last week, organizers of the historically homophobic event announced that they would allow “Out@NBCUniversal”, the LGBT group within corporate NBC, to march in next year’s parade. Despite his surrender to homosexuals, Grand Marshall Cardinal Dolan assured the drunk masses that the parade would still remain “close to its Catholic heritage.”
But according to BuzzFeed, the parade’s ban on LGBTs still remains intact for those who do not work directly for NBC. In the week since the ban had been “lifted,” parade organizers have advised three Irish LGBT groups to apply for inclusion in the 2016 parade because, well, there is already a group of LGBTs marching in 2015.
And as expected, they have failed to explain why these LGBT groups are not eligible to march in 2015, even though registration for heterosexual groups is open until mid-December.
The groups — Irish Queers, Lavender and Green Alliance, and St. Pat’s for All — are now accusing the parade of being homophobic. Quelle surprise.
“The one LGBT group that’s allowed to march in next year’s parade has nothing to do with the Irish community,” Emmaia Gelman, a member of all three groups, told BuzzFeed. “NBC is using its LGBT employee group to solve its problem, which is that it was embarrassed to continue sponsoring the event when the parade continues its exclusion of LGBT groups. This was a corporate decision.”
But are we really surprised? It was pretty much understood that the parade’s new “tolerance” policy was a desperate attempt to save the beer sponsorships it lost last year, not decency.
Photo: Ed Yourdon, Flickr
twigg
does this mean there won’t be an irish float at the next gay pride parade (asking for a friend)
PARKAVMAN
Yeah, we probably would allow for more.Are we going to be that tit for tat? I hope not.
SteveDenver
Here’s an idea: NBC/Universal queers, open your membership to include “friends and family!”
Bring video cameras to every meeting with the parade organizers and insist it’s for an documentary about historic inclusion. Before every phone conversation politely inform, “This exchange is being recorded, go ahead.”
Paco
I’m guessing the next outrage will happen when the gay groups marching in the parade are told to keep their clothes on. Or has it happened yet?
DickieJohnson
It’s run by the RCC, people! W.T.F. do you expect? Actually, I’m surprised they’re allowing the NBC gays.
nicebut50
There are many other parades who do not allow LBGT Goups to march but they don’t get publicity. Ever heard of baby steps. Vocal Gelman isn’t even Irish but an outspoken activist.
Saint Law
@nicebut50: Neither are 90% of the plastic paddies on the march. What’s your point?
mish
@nicebut50: “Gelman” is Irish American, and lived/worked in Belfast and organized the first queer community center there. Do some research.
Also, there are not “many other parades” that have ignored 23 years of calls for inclusion, from the overwhelming majority of the communities, queer and straight, that their parade is supposed to represent.
Accept baby steps on your own behalf if you want, but don’t insist that the rest of us take stale crumbs as cake.
Thanks,
“Gelman”
DarkZephyr
@Paco: Are you gay? Because that remark was incredibly homophobic.
vive
@DarkZephyr, I thought Paco’s remark was a sarcastic comment on homophobia, not homophobic.
By the way, it has already happened. There was another news item that the gay marchers were told to keep their clothes on by the organizers.
Cam
They are ONLY allowing the NBC gays because boycotts had already driven out a lot of their sponsors such as Guinness Beer. NBC wouldn’t sponsor if there was enough bad publicity which they were getting because NYC finally has a mayor that refused to march.
As for them thinking that allowing a limit of 1 gay group per year to march….So according to them a company with a few thousand employees that has a hiring limit of only one woman and one minority can then claim it isn’t sexist or rac-ist?
Paco
@DarkZephyr: I’m very much gay. vive was correct. My remark was sarcastic and was predicting the next step the homophobes would take to try and discourage gay groups from marching. Apparently they have already taken that step ( thanks for pointing that out vive). Bill Donohue thinks we can’t keep our pants on and we masturbate while we participate in any type of parade. So predictable.
tricky ricky
for the life of me I cannot understand why any gay group would want to be associated with a bunch of drunken irish hooligans on a fake holiday for a fake saint of a false religion (false in that all religions are false as there is no supernatural).
Cam
@tricky ricky:
Considering it’s pretty much the biggest parade in the city, every Mayor until DeBlazio walks in it, etc…
It isn’t a matter of WANTING to be in it, it’s a matter of being kept out of a parade where public officials are praising the organizers while they discriminate.
Just because somebody doesn’t vote in every election doesn’t mean they don’t support the right to vote.