Fay and his allies protested the banning of Irish gay groups from the march – a few of those years included arrests – and in 2000, Lavender and Green founded its own all-inclusive St. Louth, founded the Lavender and Green Alliance in 1994 and for years fought for Irish gays to be included in the Fifth Avenue parade with their banner which happened for the first time in 2016. Irish LGBT in NYC rally after Vatican's opposition to same-sex blessingsīrendan Fay, a native of Co.