Nobody disputes that New York has the largest St. Patrick's Day parade in the country. But who has the second largest? John Daley looks at claims from Holyoke and Savannah, Ga. that their parades are larger than ours.
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Now now. It's not the size
By Amy
Mon, 03/12/2007 - 8:25am
Now now. It's not the size of our parade, it's how we use it.
Of course
By Lis Riba
Mon, 03/12/2007 - 11:15am
If they allowed gays to openly march, I bet we wouldn't have these kinds of problems.
Uh...how would that help
By Molly
Mon, 03/12/2007 - 11:23am
Uh...how would that help exactly? New York doesn't allow GLBTQ(etc) folk to march, and they're still #1.
What does NYC's population have to do with it?
By Lis Riba
Mon, 03/12/2007 - 12:10pm
We may not be able to out-parade New York, but permitting more marchers would move us up the ranks past some of these other cities.
not just gays are excluded
By Ron Newman
Mon, 03/12/2007 - 12:14pm
Remember this a few years ago?
[url=http://commondreams.org/headlines03/0311-04.htm]Pe... veterans banned from parade[/url]
I didn't say anything about
By Molly
Mon, 03/12/2007 - 1:07pm
I didn't say anything about population. I'm saying that I'm not convinced that allowing GLBTQetc. marchers would be enough to move Boston up at all. I'm sure there are queer people in Boston's parade, just not as a queer group, which is really a shame. Anybody know if Savannah allows gay folks in their parade?
Maybe, maybe not
By eekanotloggedin
Mon, 03/12/2007 - 2:59pm
Hard to tell. I'm not sure that there would be that many GLBTQEIEIO groups that would just jump up and join if the restrictions were lifted. A lot of groups would probably still feel excluded, given the history of hatred expressed by the organizers.
But on the other hand, there are a lot of groups (not specifically GLBTQ groups) that won't participate in the parade because they don't want to be affiliated with a discriminatory parade. If it were open to all, the numbers could start climbing sharply a few years down the road.
Oh, since no one has mentioned it, there isn't just "the" parade in NYC. There's also the inclusive St. Pat's parade: http://www.stpatsforall.com/
We may be 4th
By Cranky
Mon, 03/12/2007 - 12:12pm
Looks like third place is taken too. Kansas City, Missouri makes the claim.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/legacies/MO/200003204...
My guess is that Kansas City
By Charles Swift
Mon, 03/12/2007 - 5:16pm
My guess is that Kansas City counts the cattle they drive to the slaughterhouse during the parade to make corned beef.
Actually...
By Othemts
Mon, 03/12/2007 - 5:16pm
What impresses me about South Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade is it's intimate neighborhood feel which is such a great contrast to New York's mega-big-marching-for-the-whole-world-ness. The fact that the parade is relatively small is part of the charm of it.
On the other hand, not being from Southie I kind of feel like I'm crashing someone else's party when I go there.