{"id":34975,"date":"2024-11-13T17:24:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=34975"},"modified":"2024-11-13T17:24:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T17:24:28","slug":"mayor-adams-celebrates-inclusive-decision-to-welcome-lgbtq-community-to-march-in-staten-island-st-patricks-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/34975","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Adams celebrates inclusive decision to welcome LGBTQ+ Community to March in Staten Island St. Patrick&#8217;s day parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWYORK:\u00a0New York city Mayor Eric Adams celebrated a decision by the Richmond County St. Patrick\u2019s day parade committee to allow LGBTQ+ groups to march in the borough\u2019s annual celebration of Irish heritage for the first-time ever in 2025.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom day one, our administration has been clear that celebrations in our city should be welcoming and inclusive, which is why we brought the community together, along with the Staten Island Business Outreach Center, to create the first-ever \u2014 and incredibly successful \u2014 fully-inclusive St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade on Staten Island earlier this year,\u201d said\u00a0Mayor Adams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled that, this year, Staten Island\u2019s LGBTQ+ community will finally be welcome to march under their own banner in the Richmond County St. Patrick\u2019s Day Parade and we applaud the committee for coming to this decision, which was a long-time coming. Congratulations to the Staten Island community, including the Pride Center of Staten Island and the Lavender and Green Alliance, for their long advocacy for inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Mayor Adams announced the\u00a0first-ever LGBTQ+ inclusive St.Patrick\u2019s day parade\u00a0on Staten Island \u2014 which took place in March 2024 \u2014 bringing an end to a decades-long conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The longstanding Richmond County Staten Island St. Patrick\u2019s day parade is the last in the world\u00a0to continue to prohibit the LGBTQ+ community from participation.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Adams is the first mayor to participate in the March 2023 \u201cRainbow Run\u201d in solidarity with the excluded LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2022, Mayor Adams also became the first mayor in the city history to visit the pride center of Staten Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYORK:\u00a0New York city Mayor Eric Adams celebrated a decision by the Richmond County St. Patrick\u2019s day parade committee to allow LGBTQ+ groups to march in the borough\u2019s annual celebration of Irish heritage for the first-time ever in 2025.\u00a0 \u201cFrom day one, our administration has been clear that celebrations in our city should be welcoming and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34976,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34975\/revisions\/34976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}