article_snippet: Mayor was scheduled to be at Manhattan parade when Mayor started at 1 pm Saturday but ended up joining the marchers about a half-hour later and walking just half of the route.
article_snippet: Without: Members of Mayor's marching party carried Mayor Bill de Blasio banner without Mayor Bill de Blasio after their St Patrick's Day march began shortly after it was scheduled .
article_snippet: New York's largest St Patrick's Day parade, which goes down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, will not see de Blasio attendance this year.
article_snippet: de Blasio has said de Blasio is not planning to attend the March 17 event because the march does not allow enough members of the gay community to participate.
article_snippet: de Blasio also boycotted the Fifth Avenue parade last year, the first time in 20 years
article_snippet: the New York mayor did not attend the March 17 event.
article_snippet: Parade organizers, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, has previously not allowed groups to march in the St Patrick's Day parade based on the Catholic Church teachings against homosexual acts.
article_snippet: the New York mayor marched at the front of a snowy St Pat's Day For the Fifth Avenue parade in Queens last week, where gay groups were represented.
article_snippet: The mayor, who was elected in 2013, has not attended the St Patrick's Day parade because of the St Patrick's Day parade exclusion of gay groups and instead has marched in a St Pat's Day For All event in Queens .
highlights_snippet: Rockaway march starts without Bill de Blasio, who arrived 30 minutes late .
  
highlights_snippet: De Blasio expected to boycott Manhattan parade because of gay exclusion .