A South Boston veterans council reversed course Friday afternoon and extended an unconditional invitation to the group of gay veterans that it had barred from marching in the St. Patrick’s Day parade.

The move clears the way for OUTVETS, a group of LGBT veterans, to march in the March 19 parade with its rainbow banner and logo, a point of contention that the Allied War Veterans Council had cited when it voted Tuesday to bar the organization.

OUTVETS had not accepted the invitation by late afternoon.

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