March 14, 2014
Sam Adams is no longer sponsoring LGBT exclusion at the Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade
LGBT groups make progress in some St. Patrick's Day parades, while corporation rethink their sponsorship in others.
MassEquality
March 13, 2014
Corporations are rethinking sponsorship of Boston's exclusionary St. Patrick's Day Parade
The Boston Beer Company, which owns Sam Adams beer, has issued a statement on its sponsorship of the Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade. Boston Beer, like other sponsors have been pressured to speak out about the exclusion of LGBT organizations, like the LGBT Veterans for Equality.
LGBT veterans uninvited from St. Patrick's Day Parade in Boston
Following a meeting at City Hall, the South Boston Allied Veterans Council issued a press release claiming MassEquality's LGBT Veterans of Equality had misrepresented itself, was not a legitimate veterans' group, and was "using a ploy to enter this parade under false pretenses."
September 23, 2009
by GLAAD
