Mayor de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray will not march in parades that exclude LGBT members

PEARL GABEL


Mayor De Blasio, after marching in the Brooklyn Pride Parade on Saturday, suggested another city procession is out of step.

“When it comes to the question of parades, you will see Chirlane at this parade or me at this parade, but you will not see us at a parade that excludes members of the LGBT community,” he said.

“That is not what we do in New York City.”

In March, De Blasio boycotted the St. Patrick’s Day Parade — the first mayor to do so in 20 years — because organizers prohibited marchers from carrying signs identifying themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.


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