St Pats Day Parades in Manhattan NYC

This is a Look at the Upcoming St Patricks Day Parade in Manhattan NYC, Including Photos of the Parades we've Covered Over the Years with Links to a Page Containing Photos and Descriptions of Some of the Best Irish Pubs in the Manhattan Borough

March 7, 2024 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / Gotham Buzz NYC.

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The photo at right was taken at the St Pats for All Parade in Sunnyside Queens. This St Pat's Parade was created to allow LGBTQ folks to march in a St Patricks Day parade at a time when all of the other St Patrick's Day Parades banned LGBTQ from marching in the Irish parades. As of March 1, 2024 there's only one St. Patrick's Day parade that continues to discriminate against people whose gender isn't totally traditional / binary.

Manhattan has Only One St Pat's Day Parade

Parades, Pubs and Restaurants in Manhattan NYC. Manhattan has only one St. Patrick's Day parade, which we've covered a number of times. We've included a prior report of the Manhattan St. Patricks Day Parade to provide you with further details of the experience of attending. We've also included an article summary leading into our report about some of the best or oldest Irish pubs and restaurants in Manhattan NYC. This is by no means a comprehensive list, and we will continue refining this report as we learn more about the Irish pubs and restaurants in Manhattan.

How this page is organized. The official feast date for St. Patrick is March 17th, but the date of the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day parade is March 16, 2024 because as a tradition they don't march on Sundays, which in the Catholic religion is the Lord's Day. The Manhattan St Patrick's Day parade is the largest in NYC.

The LGBTQ Parade Participation Issue Appears to be Abating. In 2000 the St Pats for All parade was first launched in Sunnyside, Queens to protest the banning of gays from marching in the Manhattan St Pats Day Parade. In 2014 / 2015 the Manhattan Parade opened up its participation rules to allow gays to march. In 2020 the Throgs Neck parade in the Bronx opened up its participation to gays. At present only the Staten Island parade continues to ban LGBTQ community members from participating in the parade as openly gay people. The Staten Island ban continues in 2024 by the traditional parade organizers, but they now have competition as a new LGBTQ friendly parade will be marching on March 17, 2024.

• CLICK here to view our report on the St Patricks Day Parades Manhattan NYC.

St Pats Day Parades in Manhattan NYC

This is a Look at the Upcoming St Patricks Day Parade in Manhattan NYC, Including Photos of the Parades we've Covered Over the Years with Links to a Page Containing Photos and Descriptions of Some of the Best Irish Pubs in the Manhattan Borough

March 7, 2024 / NYC Neighborhoods / NYC Things To Do Events / Gotham Buzz NYC. Continued.

• St Patrick's Day Parade in Manhattan NYC

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• * Saturday, March 16, 2024 beginning at 11 am, the NYC St Patrick's Day Parade in Manhattan begins on 5th Avenue at 44th Street and marches up to 79th Street. There are generally about 150,000 participants and about two million spectators. For details see - https://www.nycstpatricksparade.org/
  • The Manhattan St Pats Parade in New York City first stepped off in 1762. The parade continued through the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, WWI & WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Middle East Wars since the 1990's. In the early years beneficial societies took over organizing the event, followed by the Ancient Order of Hiberians in 1852, and in the 1990's this was followed by the transference of the parade management to local groups and organizations.
  • The parade generally adhered to 'traditional values' which meant that LGBTQ members of the community weren't allowed to march as openly gay human beings. The banning of LGBTQ participation became an issue in the late 1980's and early 1990's as AIDs 'invisibly' swept through the LGBTQ community. Some say 'invisibly' because they say the LGBTQ community members weren't given a proper amount of attention by the media and government officials, and were excluded from public events such as the St Pats Parade.
  • The LGBTQ controversy swelled up until in 2014, when then Mayor Bill de Blasio, along with many other high ranking government officials, refused to participate in the parade as long as it discriminated against gay participation. In 2014 less than a quarter million people watched the parade on TV. Subsequently the Guinness Brewing Company followed suit, withdrawing its sponsorship. By 2015 the parade committee had invited a gay group from Universal NBC, which had broadcast rights to the parade, to march in it, in a sign that things were shifting. In 2018 the parade officially opened the parade to LGBTQ marchers.
  • The photo at right shows the Manhattan St. Patricks Day Parade in 2015. In our NYC Parades section we did a short piece on the St Patricks Day Parade in Manhattan NYC.

St Patricks Day Parades in the Other NYC Boros

CLICK here to view our reports of St Patricks Day parades in the Bronx NYC, St Patricks Day parades in the Brooklyn NYC, St Patricks Day parades in Manhattan NYC, St Patricks Day parades in Queens NYC, St Patricks Day parades on Staten Island NYC and St Patricks Day parades in NYC all 5 boros.

Irish Farewell & Greeting

May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of his hand. Erin go Bragh.

Have a good week.