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"Kinky Boots" Performance Ruins Thanksgiving Parade For All Of America

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It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without some culture-war battle erupting: First it was how corporations were ruining Thanksgiving by staying open on Thursday. Once the parade got started, some viewers were aghast to see the cast of Kinky Boots dancing and singing in front of Macy's.

"Does every parade these days really have turn turn into a gay pride thing?" commented SuperLatvian on YouTube. "Even a traditional family oriented event is no more out of bounds. Parents must have had a lovely time explaining to their kids who watched the parade what a 'transsexual' is or why those men dressed in such a way."

EW.com gave a lowdown on the parade and received numerous comments like this one, from JT:

It is un-family and un-called for to feature the "Kinky Boots" segment!! !'m just "thankful" my kids didn't see it. I'm appalled. On a day when we are all trying to enjoy our family, we shouldn't have to explain that segment to our children! Poor taste!

Yes, how dare you ruin the sacredness of the Thanksgiving Day Parade, a time set aside for all Americans to watching giant floating ads for Pepperidge Farm Goldfish, Ocean Spray cranberry juice and The Voice!

On FreeRepublic.com, the nutbags were burning up the messageboards:

So I sit down to watch the Macy's Day parade with my 9 yr old daughter, a 40+ year tradition for me, and NBC and Macy's decide the 3rd act will be the musical act from Kinky Boots, promoting homosexuality and cross dressing.

It took about 2 seconds for my daughter to see that something was not quite right when she noticed the cross dressing Cabernet singer. "Dad, that's a man, and he's kinda creepy."

Thank you Macy's and NBC for making me discuss cross dressing deviates on Thanksgiving Day. I dont think, however, that my conversation with my daughter went the way you would have wanted.

P.S. - Since Macy's sees fit to abandon the traditional family so publicly, I will not be shopping at Macy's this year ... or ever!

And, yes, he really did spell it "Cabernet"

Of course, those bigots would have lost their shit if they'd seen Kinky Boots co-creator Harvey Fierstein's tweet:

— Harvey Fierstein (@HarveyFierstein) November 29, 2013

We're also partial to this amazing read:

— Matthew Grant (@TheMatthewGrant) November 28, 2013

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