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In 2000, the inaugural St. Pat’s for All Parade took place in the historically Irish neighborhoods of Sunnyside and Woodside, Queens. This event was founded by LGTB rights activist Brandon Fay as an alternative St.patricks Day parade in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx which have banned gay Irish groups from marching in the parade. St.patricks Day for all celebrates the diversity the irish and irish America communities of new York. For the first time in many years of Irish parades in new York to be welcoming to everyone that comes who wish share the spirit of the day. The parade was designed to be a community event which invole children from near by neignhborhoods. As their slogan is "cherishing all the children of nation of quality " (from the Irish republic's 1916 proclamation of independence).