It's LGBTQ+ History Month! Know the fight for LGBTQ+ inclusion at the NYC Saint Patrick's Pride Parade

The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project invites us to a virtual session about LGBTQ+ presence at St. Patrick's Day Parade. The St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Fifth Avenue is the most significant expression of Irish culture and celebration in New York City. But for 25 years, beginning in 1991, the fight for LGBTQ participation was met with “high levels of madness.” This intergenerational talk will feature historian Emma Quinn and activist Brendan Fay, who will discuss this decades-long campaign and the importance of Irish LGBTQ visibility in St. Patrick’s Day celebrations around the city. Amanda Davis from the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project will moderate and there will be time for Q&A from the audience.

The session will be next October, 29th, at 6:30 pm EDT, and you can register at NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project website.

                          

This free virtual program is part of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project’s “The Historian & The Activist: Cross-Cultural LGBTQ New York” series, made possible by a grant from Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is the first in a three-part series; subsequent programs will address contemporary cross-cultural LGBT identities within Puerto Rican and Jewish communities, and their connections to historic sites in NYC from the 1950s to 2000.