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This year's Macy's Thanksgiving Diurnal Parade is facing controversy as a conservative team is calling for a boycott over the event's inclusion of LGBTQ+ performers.
Earlier this month, conservative team One Million Moms launched a petition calling for a boycott of the parade over its disagreement to the event's inclusion of two non-binary performers.
"Justin David Sullivan, who personally identifies as non-binary, will be featured in the & Juliet parade show. On stage in the musical, Sullivan plays the role of "May," a non-binary friend of Juliet," One Million Moms said in a statement. "Alex Newell, a biological male who also identifies as non-binary, won a Tony Award this year for his starring performance in Shucked, playing the female role of Lulu."
"Shame on Macy's for promoting and sponsoring this type of entertainment."
The petition, which has received over 39,000 signatures as of Tuesday, comes as many conservatives contain continued to criticize members of the LGBTQ+ people. Several have disagreed with the inclusion of gender non-conforming women participating in female sports, while some Republican-led states have sought to ban gender-affirming medical nurture for m
“An anti-L.G.B.T.Q. group is organizing a boycott of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade over performances by nonbinary Broadway actors, in the latest attempt to force companies to reverse course on social issues that some far-right groups consider too liberal.” — New York Times
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As you may have heard, we at One Million Moms will be boycotting this year’s Macy’s parade because two performers from Broadway musicals are members of the so-called LGBTQ collective. As good Christians from Mississippi, we cannot recline by and let a pair of LGBTQ musical theater professionals up there in New York Urban area get away with singing and dancing in flashy costumes to carefully rehearsed choreography.
When we heard that out of the hundreds of Broadway performers demonstrating their jazz hands to America, not one, but two of them would be of that persuasion, we knew we had to do something. Not being from New York and never having been to a Broadway display, we have a distinct perspective on what theater should and shouldn’t be. Theater is the church Christmas pageant. It’s a lesser-known Osmond performing on a Tunica riverboat. It’s certainly not LGBTQ people swishin
I’m not really a celebration person. I’ve never understood the allure of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (MTDP). New York is really cold in late November. I’ve caught glimpses of the parade on TV over the years, and even that feels freezing. So many people in earmuffs and puffy jackets. Hard pass.
Except for this year, mind you. Because I just found out that MTDP is going to be a genderqueer and transgender extravaganza. Is that enough for me to pack a bag and high-tail it to New York? Absolutely not. But I will be cheering the queering of the MTDP from my couch in Michigan. In spirit, really, because I likely will not be watching the parade regardless.
I never even would acquire known that MTDP was going gay all the way if it weren’t for One Million Moms (OMM), a group of, presumably, moms, who rail against anything and everything LGBTQ+ in popular tradition. The organization also does not have one million members. But I hold to agree that One Million Moms sounds beat than One Thousand Moms or A Handful of Moms Who Are Haters.
Honestly, I can’t really assess of a better PR team for any business or entity that wants people to know it accepts LGBTQ+ peo
Kicking off the holiday season with one of the most anticipated events of the year is NBC’s official telecast of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade!
This year marks the 97th installment of the iconic Procession, which made its debut in 1924 amid the “Roaring 20’s,” first as a Christmas celebration. According to historical accounts, the procession was broadcast for the first second via radio in 1932, before it was first televised in 1946 in New York which led to the first national march telecast in 1947, on NBC.
Since then, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and accompanying NBC telecast has had a storied history of proudly highlighting members of the LGBTQ community as part of the all-American family.
From out celebrities and change-makers enjoy Ben Platt, Betty Who, Billy Porter, Harvey Fierstein, Jeremy Pope, J. Harrison Ghee, Wayne Brady and more, to LGBTQ-inclusive Broadway productions like The Prom, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Jagged Little Pill, Intend Girls, Kinky Boots, and Avenue Q, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has remained a television spectacle of the year, bringing advocacy and visibility to millions of Americans.
“For nearly 100 year
One Million Moms Calls for Boycott of Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
A conservative activist community known for its boycotts of events, companies, and products that support LGBTQ inclusion is pursuing a boycott of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
One Million Moms has issued a petition that has amassed over 21,000 signatures so far. It accuses Macy’s of attempting to reveal “tens of millions of viewers at home to the liberal LGBTQ agenda.”
The group primarily takes issue with including musical performances from two Broadway shows — & Juliet and Shucked — both of which feature gender non-conforming or nonbinary performers.
Justin David Sullivan, who is nonbinary, plays the role of May, a nonbinary friend of Juliet in & Juliet, while Alex Newell, a Tony Award winner who is also nonbinary, plays the female traits Lulu in Shucked.
Calling the parade a “nonbinary and trans extravaganza,” the community laments Sullivan’s choice to decline eligibility for the Tony Awards on the grounds that the traditional gender-based acting c