A city in Florida has said it was forced to cancel its annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade due to anti-diversity laws.
The city of Delray Beach has also cancelled its Pride event in 2027 due to a state law signed by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis that prohibits local governments from promoting or funding diversity initiatives.
The city said in a statement that restrictions under the law “include certain programming and activities designed or implemented with reference to ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.”
I have an Irish last name but the town I live in is extremely old school WASP. A former manager of mine told me I should be marking myself as non-white on EEOC forms because of my Irish heritage. I laughed thinking she was joking. She wasn’t. Bit of a shock that someone still holds onto those beliefs nowadays.
Jesus