John L. Lahey, the chairman of the parade's board, said that signs and slogans — aside from each marching group's identifying banner — are banned in order to keep the parade free of politics and protest.
Some carried banners identifying them as members of homosexual organizations like the Gay Liberation Front, the Mattachine Society and the Gay Activists Alliance (the G.A.A).
LGBT participants are permitted to march in both parades, but they are prohibited from carrying signs or banners identifying themselves as such.
She understands that the importance of having gay people parade under banners identifying them as LGBT may be difficult for some people especially, perhaps, the conservative Irish Americans who run the parade to understand, which creates a challenge for gay rights activists.
"I am nurse in my country -- I need learn English," Cecilia Jaramillio, 35, said haltingly as she clutched one end of a banner identifying Make the Road by Walking, a Brooklyn-based advocacy and educational organization.
This is not a proof of concept — you should do these earlier as a way of identifying opportunities — but a banner project that can drive subsequent investments.
Banners identified marchers as United Methodists for Peace, Benedictines for Peace and the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship.
People on the street wear "Festa Muti" buttons, and banners identify the stretch of Michigan Avenue that runs by the Symphony Center, the orchestra's home, as "Muti Mile".
James Lowe, one of the chefs who operates under the Young Turks banner, identifies the problem.
But for Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, the banner identified a new one: Rick "Sweet Music Reedd.
