Quinn, Thompson March in the Other St. Patrick's Day Parade

Here’s a shot of Christine Quinn and Bill Thompson--two likely mayoral candidates--at the all-inclusive St. Patrick’s Day parade in Sunnyside yesterday afternoon. Quinn marched behind the parade’s official banner, while Thompson marched behind the flag for the Stonewall Democrats, a major gay Democratic club in the city.

The parade is an annual event, held in response to a larger parade in Manhattan that doesn’t allow gays to march under their own banner. (That parade will be held this year on March 17).

Christine Quinn was one of the grand marshals of the Sunnyside parade, along with newspaper columnist and author Pete Hamill.

Andres Duque, a blogger in Queens, has a longer write up of the parade, including pictures of a protester and one pro-sodomy sign.