St Pats Day Parades in Queens NYC

This is a Look at the Upcoming St Patricks Day Parades in Queens, Including Photos of those We've Covered Over the Years with Links to a Page Containing Photos and Descriptions of Some of the Best Irish Pub in the Queens 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.

Queens has Several St Pat's Day Parades

Parades, Pubs and Restaurants in Queens NYC. Queens has several St. Patrick's Day parades, most of which we've covered. We've included our reports of Queens St. Patricks Day Parades 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 Queens. 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 Queens.

How this page is organized. We've organized this page by Queens St Patrick's Day parade dates. The parades span the month, and even though ... the official feast date for St. Patrick is March 17th, 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 in Queens NYC.

St Pats Day Parades in Queens NYC

This is a Look at the Upcoming St Patricks Day Parades in Queens, Including Photos of those We've Covered Over the Years with Links to a Page Containing Photos and Descriptions of Some of the Best Irish Pub in the Queens Borough

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

• St Patricks Day Parades in Queens NYC

Also for Queens Irish pubs and restaurants see our compendium - St Pat's Day Irish Pubs, Bars & Restaurants Queens. These will be updated next week.

• * Saturday, March 2, 2024 beginning at 1 pm - The 49th Annual Queens County St. Patrick's Day Parade in the Rockaways kicks off at Beach 130th and Newport Avenue. Church services at Francis de Sales Church [129th and Newport Avenue] will be held prior to the parade with a brunch by invitation only. The parade marches east down Newport Avenue to 116th Street, where it turns right / heads south one block to Rockaway Blvd - where it turns left and continues east down Rockaway Blvd to 102nd Street terminating near a shopping center parking lot. This parade is in the Rockaways neighborhood of Queens. For details see - https://queenscountyparade.org/

• * Sunday, March 3, 2024 beginning at 12 noon - The St. Pat's for All Parade in Sunnyside begins with speeches and music at 12 noon, and then kicks off from Skillman Avenue and 43rd Street in Sunnyside, Queens marching east and up hill for 15 blocks before ending at 58th Street in Woodside. For details see - https://www.stpatsforall.org/
  • The St Pats for All Parade was founded in 2000 in response to the Manhattan St Pats Parade boycott of LGBTQ folks marching as openly gay. The Manhattan St Pats Parade has since dropped that policy and permits openly gay members of the community to march in the parade.
  • The photo at right was taken at the St Pats for All Parade in Sunnyside in 2012. This link will take you to a section of our coverage of the St Pats Parades in Queens NYC. Please be advised that as of this post [3/1/24] we've not finished cleaning up the linked section since we migrated to a new web platform late last year.

• * Saturday, April 6, 2024 beginning at 1 pm the Bayside St. Patrick's Day Parade marches down Bell Blvd between 35th and 42nd Avenues. The parade is a fairly new one, now in its sixth or seventh year [2024]. For further details see their Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/baysidestpatricksdayparade/ as their website as of this post on 2.28.23 and also on 3.7.24 is currently having issues - https://baysidesaintpatricksdayparade.org.

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.