PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Outrageously costumed Mummers have strutted and twirled at Philadelphia’s annual New Year’s Day parade, a colorful celebration that features string bands, comic brigades, elaborate floats and plenty of feathers and sequins. One member dressed like Jenner, who won a 1976 Olympic gold medal in the decathlon as Bruce Jenner before recently transitioning to a transgender woman. A crude parody of Jenner in her Vanity Fair cover outfit then re-emerged as Aerosmith’s “Dude Looks Like a Lady” played.
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Philadelphia’s incoming mayor Jim Kenney called the Jenner display hurtful, saying on Twitter, “It was bad”.
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The video, which showed an unidentified Finnegan NYB member yelling “F- the gays” as he marched along Broad Street on Friday, was taken by New York Daily News editor Nick Kurczewski.
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Some of the brigade members also held up signs, with a Wheaties box used to portray Bruce Jenner, while the group depicted Caitlyn with a Froot Loops box.
The group who organised the Jenner piece, Finnegan N.Y.B, responded to the criticism by saying: “We understand and take full responsibility since we are Finnegan, but this deeply is sickening someone could say that”.
Holtz told the Daily News said some of the Mummers were urinating in the alley and all were drunk. He said one called him a gay slur and another punched him in the eye.
Holtz believes the men who accosted him were part of the same group satirizing Jenner.
‘They start giving me some kind of crap, because I’m a big guy and I have this little fluffy dog, ‘ Holtz said to local news station NBC 10, according to The Root.
Holtz alleged he confronted the men, and they began to attack him. “My friend ended up jumping on him and wrestled him, and before I knew it, they disappeared into the crowd and the cops were asking some questions”.
Officers asked Holtz whether he wanted to file a police report, but he declined, not wanting to spend hours at the precinct with his friends on the holiday. “This is why we’re in the comics”, another tweet said.
Other groups caught some flack as well for insensitive acts, including Sammar Strutters” “Siesta Fiesta’ act, which had comics donning brown face and dressed in sombreros and ponchos. Some wore taco costumes.
They carried the signs in the parade as about 50 protesters from representing the actual movement demonstrated on the sidewalk.
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New this year was the “Philadelphia Division”, meant to inject some diversity into the parade, with two new Hispanic performance groups, a black drill team and the LGBT Miss Fancy Brigade. Now, he says, the group plans to reach out to the LGBT community. ‘Hurtful to many Philadelphians. “As of this time, he is no longer considered a Mummer”.
