NYC council head to boycott St. Patrick's Day parade

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            head to boycott St. Patrick's Day parade
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          Mar 14, 2006
          
        
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       Saying she would
            not march in Friday's St. Patrick's Day Parade unless
            gays can join her and "celebrate our heritage," New
            York City council       speaker Christine Quinn, a
            self-described proud Irish-American lesbian,       declared
            she would not participate in the annual event.
                   The New York Post reports that Quinn said
            she       had reached out to leaders within the Irish and
            LGBT communities about       what she called "inclusive
            participation." But parade chairman       John Dunleavy once
            again said that gays would not be permitted to march,
            saying organizers weren't about to give gays reason to end
            their 15-year       boycott of the city's oldest parade.
            (Sirius OutQ News)     

        
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NYC council
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