NYC St. Patrick's parade to no longer be defined by discrimination; green beer remains definitive

The big news out of the New York this morning is that the organizers of the New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade will, for the first time, allow an LGBT group to march in the 2015 event. For now it only applies to an LGBT group in-house at NBCUniversal (the network that airs the parade), but it is presumably an open door for every parade thereafter:

NYC St. Patrick's Day Parade to end anti-gay ban [GLAAD]

It's hard to cheer something that should have been a no-brainer several decades ago, par...