St. Patrick's parade organizer compares gay group to Nazis, Klan

NEW YORK -- The City Council's first openly gay leader, who refused to participate in the nation's largest St. Patrick's Day Parade on Friday, blasted its chairman for remarks that compared gay Irish-American activists to neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and prostitutes.

"I don't even think they dignify a response," Council Speaker Christine Quinn said Thursday of chairman John Dunleavy's comments to The Irish Times.

Quinn said she already had decided not to join the 150,000 marchers on Fifth Avenue after organizers rejected her compromise attempts and barred an Irish gay and lesbian group for a 16th straight year.

"I can't deny who I am on any given day," said Quinn, who was arrested in 1999 for protesting at an exclusionary parade in the Bronx.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--stpatricksparade0317mar17,0,4415263.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork


This is just freaking nuts, I can't believe this Parade Organizer!!!

this guy has some serious issues..... 'twoiuld be sweet if a large contingent of gays/lesbians/bi's and their hetero supporters could line route and turn their backs as the parade passed.....

but hey! All Irish Gay/lesbian/bi folk - you may not be welcome in his parade but y'all have a home right here in my heart! Happy St. Paddys Day! :grouphug:

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Do neo-Nazis do living room makeovers? Does the KKK worship the ground that Liza Minelli walks on? Do prostitutes buy choice tickets to the symphony weeks in advance? Where is this person coming from?

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New York is much more liberal than the ideas of this organizer.. Someone should fire this person and get some in who does not discriminate....