Queer groups have been marching in St. Patrick’s Day parades in Ireland since 1992. In New York, however, a substantive ban remains in effect.

While organizers and NBC, an official sponsor of the event, have made a lot of noise about allowing an LGBTQ group to march for the first time—the network’s internal group, [email protected]—Irish LGBTQ organizations, like Irish Queers, are today protesting the fact that they’ve been left out in the cold.

“The parade committee’s admission this year of the gay/straight alliance of their corporate sponsor, NBC, is not inclusion of Irish LGBTQ groups, but more exclusion,” reads a statement by Irish Queers. “The demand has always been for Irish LGBTQ groups to march under banners that say who we are without shame—not corporate groups, marching behind an ‘OUT’ banner that avoids mentioning ‘lesbian,’ ‘gay,’ ‘bisexual,’ or ‘transgender.'”

Irish Queers has been protesting the ban of LGBTQ groups from the New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade since 1991, when it was called Irish Lesbian & Gay Organization (here is video of their first protest). The group applauds New York Mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio’s continued boycott of the parade, and takes aim at other corporate sponsors, such as Guinness and Heineken, for their support.

“Guinness and Heineken, after dropping their sponsorship of the antigay parade for just one year, have used NBC’s trick as an excuse to resume sponsoring it,” says Irish Queers spokesperson, Eustacia Smith. “It’s totally perverse that Heineken has offered to put money into the inclusive Queens parade [an unaffiliated LGBTQ-friendly event] as well as the antigay parade. Playing both sides harms the LGBTQ community, and adds insult to injury.”