Members of OutVets, a group of gay military veterans, march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Boston’s South Boston neighborhood in 2016. (Steven Senne/AP)Twenty-five years ago, the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, which organizes the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, refused to allow a gay veterans group to participate in the festivities. The Allied War Veterans Council will reconvene Friday to reconsider their vote, Bishop told the Globe. Parade organizer and council member Tim Duross told 7News he wants an inclusive parade and hopes to resolve the conflict. “They are stuck in an arcane time in our history.”The color guard for LGBT veterans group OutVets marches down Broadway during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston in 2015.

Source: Washington Post March 09, 2017 12:13 UTC