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With the Arizona Capitol in the background and dozens of gay right supporters and members of the media surrounding them, Democratic representative Sen. Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix, speaks at a podium about Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's veto of SB1062, a bill designed to give added protection from lawsuits to people who assert their religious beliefs in refusing service to gays, at the Arizona Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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FILE - In this Jan 21, 2011 file photo, University of Iowa President Sally Mason speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in her office in Iowa City, Iowa. Mason is leading a forum Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014 to discuss recent concerns about sexual assaults this school year. The protest group formed after Mason told the student newspaper last week that preventing all sexual assaults wasn't realistic "just given human nature." Mason has apologized for any harm her words caused and pledged to use her power "to end this terrible crime on our campus." (AP Photo/ Ryan J. Foley, File)
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FILE - In this Saturday, March 16, 2013 file photo, holding flags in memory of the 343 firefighters who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 attacks, members of the New York City Fire Department walk up New York's Fifth Avenue as they take part in the St. Patrick's Day Parade. Since the 1990s, the event's ban on gay signs and banners has spurred protests and litigation and led to the creation of an alternative, gay-friendly St. Patrick's Day parade in Queens. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
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FILE - In this Friday, March 17, 2006 file photo, members of the Irish-American gay community protest on Fifth Avenue against the exclusion of Irish and Irish-American gays people from marching in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York. In 2014, mayors of New York and Boston say they’ll boycott St. Patrick’s Day parades to protest policies on gay groups. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)
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FILE - In this Saturday, March 2, 2013 file photo, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio marches in the Queens County St. Patrick's Day Parade in the Rockaway area of the Queens borough of New York. As mayor in 2014, de Blasio said he will skip the nation’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade in Manhattan because participants are not allowed to carry signs or banners that identify themselves as gay. Since the 1990s, the Manhattan parade's ban on gay signs and banners has spurred protests and litigation and led to the creation of this alternative, gay-friendly St. Patrick's Day parade in Queens. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Boston Mayor Martin Walsh speaks to media in Boston, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Walsh will boycott St. Patrick's Day parades to protest policies on gay groups. Walsh said this week he's trying to broker a deal with his city's parade organizers to allow a group of gay military veterans to march. The son of Irish immigrants said that allowing gay groups to participate is "long overdue." (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
