Current AffairsNYC St Patrick’s Day parade drops ban on gay groups Nick Duffy 29th September 2015, 7:59 PM(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)The New York St Patrick’s Day parade will allow an LGBT contingent to march under their own banner for the first time.The annual Catholic event – which attracts over a million tourists each year – has a long-held ban on allowing gay groups to march – but the 2014 parade faced a large commercial boycott over the exclusion of LGBT groups.In 2015, the LGBT groups of one of the parade’s biggest sponsors, OUT@NBCUniversal, was allowed to march as part of NBC’s contingent – but other groups remained banned.

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