Staten Island LGBTQ community marches in St Patrick's Parade for the first time

NEW YORK CITY - MARCH 17: Spectators cheer as the Staten Island Pride Center, a community and activism center for the local LGBTQ community, marches for the first time in the Staten Island St Patrick's Day Parade, March 17, 2024, on Forest Avenue in the Staten Island borough of New York City. The Staten Island St Patrick's Parade is the only one in the world that continues to deny gay groups the right to march, so this year civic and business groups held a second, more inclusive, parade two weeks after the first one. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)