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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
Sun Mar 3, 2013, 01:57 PM Mar 2013

NYTimes: Insurgent St. Patricks Day Parade Comes Into Its Own

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/01/insurgent-st-patricks-day-parade-comes-into-its-own/

Brendan Fay pointed to an e-mail on his computer screen from the New York Fire Department’s Emerald Society Pipes and Drums corps confirming that it would be marching in the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Queens, on Sunday.

“Now that’s how you know the tide has turned for us,” said Mr. Fay, 54, adding that this would be quite a change from the lone bagpiper that the fledgling parade had most years.
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NYTimes: Insurgent St. Patricks Day Parade Comes Into Its Own (Original Post) LiberalElite Mar 2013 OP
Good...knr joeybee12 Mar 2013 #1
Hooray for Queens mitchtv Mar 2013 #2
Woodside's got more of a mix now LiberalElite Mar 2013 #3
and Donovan's mitchtv Mar 2013 #4

mitchtv

(17,718 posts)
2. Hooray for Queens
Tue Mar 5, 2013, 05:07 PM
Mar 2013

Having grown up there, I salute Queens for coming of age. I remember marching in a Gay Irish contingent some years back when they had it in Jackson Heights. Woodside is probably more Irish than J hts, anyway. Too bad I will miss it

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
3. Woodside's got more of a mix now
Thu Mar 7, 2013, 09:19 PM
Mar 2013

- several irish pubs but also a little Manila and a Thai restaurant that foodies flock to all the way from (gasp!) Manhattan. Jackson Heights still has Gay Pride in early June and JH as well as Woodside now have openly gay City Council Reps.

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