Boston Pride says it's marching in Sunday's St. Patrick's Day parade

Let me say this:

GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD!

It should be all inclusive and now that it is, we can take the big black eye off of Southie.

for a little while.

IMO

Happy Paddy's Day All!

http://cappyinboston.blogspot.com/

...Boston Pride and the LGBT community will be marching proudly in the parade, alongside OUTVETS, a group that formed last year and represents openly gay veterans.

If OUTVETS is new, what actual organized vet groups were demanding inclusion in previous years? The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence by contrast, as a group, has been around for decades. So, parade organizers seem to have been correct in past years claiming that there wasn't an organized gay vet group. They were thrown together, ad hoc groups. Allowing Boston Pride to march removes the previous charade.

Anybody know why GOAL hasn't asked to march in this or previous years? Its an established and legitimate group.

I thought the parade this year was straight?

"Scoob (not verified)", where are you? Have you been buried under a snowbank?
Time to "come out" now and shine. It wouldn't be a St. Pat. parade without
your glorious self. How's your Sam Adams supply holding up?
Best regards,
Big Gay

Last year, the folks with the "Diversity Float" could march, but weren't allowed to announce themselves as a gay group. Walsh decided to stay home. This year, can Pride and OUTVETS march as openly gay?

Gay Shame is a movement from within queer communities, described as a radical alternative to gay mainstreaming and directly posits an alternative view of gay pride events and activities which have become increasingly commercialized with corporate sponsors and "safer" agendas to avoid offending supporters and sponsors.[1][2] The Gay Shame movement has grown to embrace radical expression, counter-cultural ideologies and avant-garde arts and artists.

Gay Shame was created as a protest of (and named in opposition to) the overcommercialization of the gay pride events. Members attack "queer assimilation" in what they perceive as oppressive societal structures

“In 2003 the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor hosted a generative yet controversial conference titled Gay Shame. Seven years later, conference organizers David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub have compiled essays, spoken-word texts, art works, interviews, short documentary films, video performances, and images that were either inspired by, inspiration for, or a product of the conference proceedings in the anthology and accompanying DVD also titled Gay Shame. Most all of the diverse collection of contributions to the anthology and DVD were provided by the distinguished community of scholars, activists, and artists who attended the conference not only as presenters but also as active participants in the conversations it facilitated. Reflective of the vast scope of this book, the contributions are divided into six categories: "Gay Shame," which offers an introduction to both the conference and the volume; "Performing Shame," which examines shame as an affect produced and reflected through performance; "Spectacles of Shame," which considers imagery, both popular and erotic, that induces shame; "Disabled Shame," which explores shame in the lives of those living with disabilities; "Histories of Shame," which concerns shame in LGBTQ histories; and lastly "Communities of Shame," which examines shame and its relationship to identity politics.[40]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Shame
https://www.google.com/search?q=gay+shame

https://www.google.com/search?q=gay+shame&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks

Statement here: http://massachusettsstatekofc.org/