"Miss Staten Island comes out as bisexual, is banned from St. Patrick's Day parade"

"after Madison L'Insalata came out publicly as bisexual, she said, organizers banned her from taking part."

NY Post:

For the last three years, the Staten Island Pride Center has been barred from attending the tax-funded event — the only St. Patrick’s march in the five boroughs that has banned gay groups.

The organizing committee, which operates under the local Ancient Order of the Hibernians chapter, has come under increased scrutiny this year for banning a local beauty queen who came out as bisexual to The Post over the weekend.

The prime minister of Ireland is gay, and Ireland was the first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote