article_snippet: Pride: U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., center, waves while marching with members of OutVets, a group of gay military veterans, as they, too, participated in the Sunday South Boston parade .
article_snippet: Outvet founder Bryan Bishop (left) and Veterans Council's Brian Mahoney (right) were at the Sunday South Boston parade .
article_snippet: The gay military veterans service group OutVets and gay rights group Boston Pride joined the annual celebration of military veterans and Irish heritage at the invitation of the sponsoring South Boston Allied War Veterans Council.
article_snippet: the sponsoring South Boston Allied War Veterans Council current leaders voted 5-4 in December to welcome OutVets as one of about 100 groups in the Sunday South Boston parade.
article_snippet: Boston Pride said Boston Pride also received an acceptance letter this week.
article_snippet: Boston's mayors had boycotted the event since 1995, when the sponsoring South Boston Allied War Veterans Council took the sponsoring South Boston Allied War Veterans Council fight to exclude gay groups to the U.S. Supreme Court and won on First Amendment grounds.
article_snippet: This year Mayor Marty Walsh, Gov. Charlie Baker and other Massachusetts political leaders took part.
article_snippet: First-term U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, who served four tours in Iraq as a Marine, marched with OutVets. '
article_snippet: I believe gay rights is the civil rights fight of our generation and this is a small, but important, step in the steady march toward freedom and justice,' First-term U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, who served four tours in Iraq as a Marine said.
article_snippet: Some Roman Catholic groups declined to march, including the state Knights of Columbus, saying Some Roman Catholic groups declined to march, including the state Knights of Columbus felt This year's parade had been politicized.