A heads up on the Macy’s parade
Harvey Fierstein as Mrs, Claus in the 2003 Macy’s parade Thanks to One Million (hater) Moms, we know it will be an LGBTQ extravaganza I’m not really a parade person in general, and I’ve never understood the allure of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
New York is really cold in late November. I’ve caught glimpses of the parade on TV over the years, and even that feels cold.
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 non-binary 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 have known that MTDP was going gay all the way if it weren’t for One Million Moms, a group of — presumably — moms, who rail against anything and everything LGBTQ in popular culture. (Also, the organization does not have one million members.
