After weeks of tense negotiations, it appeared MassEquality, a gay-rights group, would be able to send a delegation of 20 gay veterans to the Boston parade.
For a long time running, parades across the country celebrating Ireland's patron saint-including the New York City and Boston's-have refused to allow LGBT groups to join in the festivities.
It's not just the scores of 30-somethings who revert to their frat-boy days and fill the streets with their drunken antics on March 17 that have led some in the gay community to call St.
