Politicians boycott St Patrick’s Day parade over gay exclusion.

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New York governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted his support for the pride centre, writing that it was ‘way past time’ that it be permitted to march in the Staten Island parade. (Photograph: Nathaniel Brooks/New York Times)

Several politicians in the New York borough of Staten Island boycotted the local St Patrick’s Day parade this weekend after a gay rights group was excluded from marching.

The Staten Island borough president James Oddo tweeted on Friday that he…