[dsc]

This can’t continue.

[Kid Shelleen]

**** Philly Metro Ping ****

[abclily]

LGBT = Little Gonads Big Tits

[smoothsailing]

Kenney noted that female impersonators were a mainstay during New Year's Day parades until the 1970s, when the category was eliminated as women began to take part in the parade. City officials decided to bring the category back last year.

Give Philly to New Jersey and be done with it. Pennsylvania would become a solid red state instantly.

[Vaquero]

from mummers to hummers.

[SC_Pete]

The Mummers Parade is unique to Philadelphia and it will die out quickly if it’s turned into another gay pride extravaganza.

[Terry L Smith]

One more tradition gone to the dogs.

[tet68]

Wait, there are drag kings?
Now I’m really confused.

[moovova]

I would attend but unfortunately that’s my day to clean the scaly mineral buildup off the inside of our commode tanks.

Darn that hard water.

[Peter Libra]

FWIW. I have watched the Mummers Parade on television up Canada way and was extremely interested because of the origin. It is known that in the middle ages in England it was performed, but no records exist in writing.

In Henry VIII reign during the 1500's groups of mummers would descend on houses. They got very boisterous and demanded strong ale and victuals - or else. Bluff King Hal banned it for a time. In the novel by Thomas Hardy - The Return of the Native", which covered the Victorian period of the mid 1840s or so, we find the mummers.

Two main characters were St George of England and his opponent, the Saracen Knight. Groups of young men and women also joined in as part of the scene. The Saracen was a Turkish Muslim and I note that in parts of England this figure is called the " Slasher".

Attempts are being made to revive these traditions. Perhaps the slaying of ye Saracen Knight might draw the usual yells of racism. I don't know that though.

The gays, as they are called seemed to be everywhere. In Victorian England they would have got seven years hard labour(if caught), so I guess they are lucky.