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15 Mar. 2015
Boston, UNITED STATES
The Lexington Minutemen reload blanks into their rifles during the St. Patrick's Day Parade in South Boston, Massachusetts March 15, 2015. For the first time in the 114-year history of Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade, gay rights activists marched openly on Sunday under rainbow banners in the city's annual celebration of its Irish heritage, after organizers lifted a longtime ban. Two groups, Boston Pride and OutVets, were among dozens of contingents taking part in the parade through the center of South Boston, once an insular Irish-American neighborhood near downtown that has undergone gentrification in recent years. REUTERS/Dominick Reuter (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY ANNIVERSARY)
