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Prejudice rains on the parade
Who Is Left Out of Patrick's Day Parades
Seán O'Driscoll has written an excellent article in yesterday's Irish Times (March 11 2006) on who gets barred from St Patrick's Day Celebrations in the USA. As the IT is a sub-only site, I've pasted in the article below.
Several Irish politicians and other public figures are giving George Bush nice publicity on Patrick's Day in the White House, one day before marchers all over the world demonstrate against the USA government's barbaric war in iraq.
Boycott Bush, Rock the Sham in 2006. Prejudice rains on the parade
11/03/2006
Never mind who's in the St Patrick's Day parade in Manhattan, the key question is who has been left out, writes Seán O'Driscoll in New York.
St Patrick's Day parades in greater New York - green beer, police marching bands, county associations, Irish dancers, junket-loving government ministers - it's all a bit predictable. The real story this year is not who's taking part, but who's being left out.
For a start, a group of Irish dwarfs has been banned from the Belmar parade in New Jersey for being too drunk last year. Meanwhile, in Morristown, New Jersey, the local bishop is leading a campaign against the inclusion of the National Organisation for Women (Now) in the parade.
In Manhattan, the parade continues to ban gay groups because they are "anti-Catholic". In Woodside, Queens, where gay groups set up their own parade, the local anarchist marching band refused to march in the Manhattan parade because it excludes gays. The first openly gay speaker of New York city council, Christine Quinn, is also boycotting the Manhattan parade, as is author Frank McCourt, who noted that if you threw a bomb among the leaders of the Manhattan parade, you would kill "the cream of Irish mediocrity". His brother Malachy, dressed in an outlandish Tricolour hat for last Sunday's pro-gay Woodside parade, is even running for governor on the Green Party ticket to raise awareness of the anti-gay discrimination. Meanwhile, the Manhattan parade banned the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, the largest and most active Irish lobby group in the US, because it is too much of an "advocacy" group.
IT'S DOUBTFUL THE US Supreme Court had any idea what it was unleashing when it ruled in Hurley V Irish Lesbian and Gay Organisation 11 years ago that St Patrick's Day parades could exclude incompatible groups.
For the dwarfs out in Belmar, it's bad news. The parade organiser Eugene "Chip" Cavanagh, has said that the dwarfs, or "little people" as they want to be called, got drunk at the parade last year and said he was justified in excluding them this year. "They're lucky they didn't get locked up," he said. The little people hit back by picketing the parade, which took place last Sunday. Dressed in green and carrying signs that read: "Belmar Oppresses Little People," they denied public drunkenness and say they face discrimination because of their size. The group's sponsor, party organiser and sex toy salesman Glen Kislowski, a big person, has said he will run for local office to highlight the cut down on good times in Belmar.
In Morristown, at the request of Bishop Arthur Serratelli some 20 priests have complained to parade organisers about the inclusion of the Now. The organisation has retaliated against the bishop by showing a 1997 documentary about the Vatican's discrimination against women on their local access TV show.
In Manhattan, meanwhile, the parade has yet to condemn comments made two years ago by then parade chairman Jim Barker that homosexuality is a disease that can be cured in a hospital and that, if gays were allowed to march, they might attack children lining the parade route. These comments were published verbatim in the Irish Voice, whose editor, Niall O'Dowd, has been excluded from the parade, along with the group he chairs, the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR). The new parade chairman, John Dunleavy, says ILIR is an advocacy group. He has also refused a last-minute compromise to allow members of the Co Louth Association to wear ILIR T-shirts.
OUT AT THE pro-gay Woodside parade last Sunday, participants said the days of trying to negotiate with the Manhattan parade are long over and that the only solution is their own parade, which includes Trotskyites, the American Green Party and the marching band, dressed in the green of St Patrick and the black of the anarchy movement. "We were given the opportunity to march in Manhattan but we turned it down," said the band's banjo player, Andy, who describes himself as more of a socialist than an anarchist. "The Manhattan parade discriminates, so we're not going to join. I guess it's discrimination against the discriminators. Someone has to take a stand."
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Jump To Comment: 5 4 3 2 1Thanks to John Meehan for mentioning the Rocky Sullivan reading of Rock the Sham! I will be reading tonight, March 17th, at Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street on the Lower East Side of New York.
Irish Queers are out there right now giving it to the long green line of bigots marching up Fifth Avenue.
Check out my website for chapter excerpts, ILGO archive and lots more.
www.rockthesham.com
Up the Rebels!
Pics from the march...
Green Shamock on Black flag?
Thanks for posting this article! Here is what Irish Queers of NYC have in store for this year:
The New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade is billed as a private event, but how can this parade of bigotry be “private” when it marches down public streets and uses public funds? This parade does not represent Irish culture – it represents religious bigotry masquerading as culture.
The exclusion of LGBT people from the St. Patrick’s Day parade is not just an issue concerning the Irish & Irish American community when the City, NYPD and media happily contribute resources into making this parade happen. This parade draws the ranks of Mayor Bloomberg & other elected officials, thousands of city workers including police officers & firefighters, and organized labor – they’re participation endorses the homophobic actions of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Catholic Archdiocese of NYC against queers. As LGBT people we must take a stand against the city using public funds to support marches of hate.
Please join our Sideline Picket & Protest - All are welcome to join us.
Friday, March 17th at 10:30AM
East side of Fifth Ave. at 57th St
N,R,W or 4,5,6 to 59th Street
Don’t cross the picket line – Boycott the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade!
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/6-3-12/39191.html
I suppose coz they don't want Irish people (of whom nearly a million Londoners are or are children / grandchildren of) giving them a good reason for a day of work next Friday.
If we all pray to St Patrick (yes even the atheists), he may expel the snakes and top brit cop Ian Blair will resign this week. And the real evildoers will go to the Hague and die of heart failure. http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1729602,00....html
the united kollectives are going green with an anthem and a militant night out -
https://www2.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/02/334388.html
everyone is invited to Barcelona to drink on the street and defy the anti-social laws.
Remember when Bush almost declared war on paddy's day?
I go silly this time every year. I'm sorry.
https://www2.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/306767.html?c=...12221
https://www2.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/03/306788.html
Follow this link for information on Anne Maguire's newly published history of the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization's struggle against the organisers of the New York Patrick's Day Parade -
She's reading from "Rock the Sham" at a New York pub Rocky Sullivan's :
http://www.rockysullivans.com/readings.html