Over the last several years, participation in the popular procession has dwindled as many groups and individuals boycotted the annual event over the controversial LGBTQ ban. The decades-long exclusion of LGBTQ groups led to the formation earlier this year ...

The Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee will allow LGBTQ+ groups to march in the borough’s annual Irish heritage celebration, the first time this inclusion will be made, 1010 WINS has confirmed.

For the first time ever, the Pride Center of Staten Island will be allowed to march in the Richmond County St. Patrick's Day Parade.The parade committee, for the first time in 60 years, announced Tuesday it will allow LGBTQ+ groups to march in Staten Island's St.