Photo by Owen Reiter for the Staten Island Advance
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It took 60 years, but the Richmond County St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee will, for the first time, allow LGBTQ+ groups to march in the borough’s annual celebration of Irish heritage.
On March 2, 2025, members of The Pride Center of Staten Island will proudly march under their own banner alongside dozens of community organizations in the borough’s official St. Patrick’s Parade.
It will be “a first” as the Richmond County St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee has always banned LGBTQ+ groups from marching under their own banner. In fact, the borough’s St. Patrick’s parade is the very last — likely in the world — to have continued this exclusionary ban.
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