Anti-gay, racist incidents mar Philadelphia’s Mummers Parade

The parade – one of the oldest in America – featured a Bruce Jenner lookalike in his Olympic glory with a Wheaties box in the background.

Soon Aerosmith’s “Dude Looks Like a Lady” blasts out of the speakers, and the man reemerges, this time in a white corset and shorts, with a blowup of Caitlyn Jenner in a similar outfit behind him on the cover of Vanity Fair.

“Our trans citizens do not deserve this type of satire/insult”, Kenney said. A man with that group was seen shouting expletives about gays in a video shot by New York Daily News editor Nick Kurczewski, Philly.com reported Saturday.

This year’s event was reportedly organized after 2015’s parade was criticized for being almost all-white and all-male.

A man named John Holtz was also reportedly attacked by parade participants as he walked his dog along the parade route.

In another incident, a spectator filmed one of the parade’s members screaming “f*** the gays!” Ultimately, this parade does little more than make the nation think It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia isn’t too far off the mark, and we want nothing to do with it and would like very much if it could go away, please and thank you.

Inemer assured that the videotaped Philadelphia Mummers Parade participant from their group is “no longer considered a Mummer” and has been “dealt with without any outside influence”.

Nellie Fitzpatrick, the city’s director of LGBT Affairs, told NBC Philadephia the skit was “unacceptable”.

In addition, Inemer and D’Urso said the Finnegan NYB brigade would be “reaching out to the LGBT community and offering its services to help with an LGBT fund-raiser or equality awareness, and to learn more about LGBT concerns”.

Michael Inemer Sr., who identified himself as a captain of the Finnegan Mummers group, refused to apologize for the Jenner display, saying it was a parody in keeping with the parade’s history that includes cross-dressing. ‘They were calling me faggot, calling me gay’. “That’s not who we are or ever were”. One of the four allegedly ‘clocked him in the face’.

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. The person has been banned from Finnegan NYB and from the Goodtimers.

And then there were the Mummers carrying signs reading Mummers Lives Matter and Wenches Lives Matter – a play on the Black Lives Matter movement protesting police brutality and inequality.