article_snippet: Organizers said last year, though, that Organizers would welcome one gay contingent under it own banner this year.
article_snippet: Marchers carry a banner reading '
article_snippet: Capital New York reported that NBC Universal employees are planning to march with a banner for Out@NBCUniversal.
article_snippet: The group's Twitter page describes The group's Twitter page as 'the employee resource group of LGBT & Straight Ally employees at NBCUniversal.
article_snippet: In the past, gays were free to march in my world's biggest and oldest St. Patrick's Day Parade but not with banners saying gays're LGBT.
article_snippet: Most marching units in All parade carry identifying banners.
article_snippet: There are about 320 units in All parade, the parade committee said.
article_snippet: LGBT activists say the main parade organizer, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, has been under increasing pressure to allow diversity, especially after New York state passed New York state Marriage Equality Act in 2011, allowing marriages for same-sex couples.
article_snippet: Several protesters, however, stood on the side holding signs that read 'Sodom & Gomorrah.'
article_snippet: People snuggle up as People wait for marchers to pass by .
article_snippet: Pride: Members of the Gay Officers Action League march carrying a banner .