On Friday, the organizers of the St. Patrick's Day Parade here in Boston announced that an advocacy group for LGBTQ veterans, OutVets, will be marching in the parade to commemorate the Irish saint on Sunday, March 19.
For those who have not been following this issue over the last few weeks, please allow me to catch you up. The organizers had originally denied the group a place in the parade solely on the basis that it violated the principles of the event to have an organization dedicated to sexual orientation advocacy represented.
For much of the past 40 years, the student newspaper at Worcester's College of the Holy Cross has coincidentally shared the same name as the chief publication of the Ku Klux Klan.
Apparently, this innocent unintended co-occurrence did not become a problem that needed addressing by Holy Cross professors until 2017.
