US: Parade organiser compares gay groups to Nazis and KKK

New York City Council’s first openly gay leader, who is boycotting today’s parade because organisers barred Irish gays and lesbians from joining the festivities for the 16th straight year, blasted its chairman for remarks that compared gay Irish-American activists to neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and prostitutes.

“I don’t even think they dignify a response,” Council Speaker Christine Quinn said of chairman John Dunleavy’s comments to The Irish Times.