Anti-LGBTQ+ organization One Million Moms (OMM) clutched their pearls over the inclusion of two Broadway musicals featuring trans and non-binary characters performing in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and started a petition to boycott Macy’s.
OMM exists solely to campaign against LGBTQ+ representation in media because they fear LGBTQ+ characters in TV, stage, and film are indoctrinating their children with “the gay agenda.”
The group is an offshoot of the conservative Christian fundamentalist group, the American Family Association (AFA).
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The two controversial parade performances at the center of the controversy include nonbinary actor Justin David Sullivan, who plays “May,” a nonbinary friend of Juliet’s in the musical & Juliet; and Tony Award-winning nonbinary actor Alex Newell, who plays the female character Lulu in the comedy musical Shucked.
In their petition, OMM told Macy’s:
“My family and I will not watch this indoctrination.”
“My family will not support Macy’s; you have lost our trust.”
But their boycott only served to raise interest in new viewership of the annual holiday tradition.
The group’s past anti-LGBTQ+ mobilization efforts included opposing the hiring of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres to be a spokesperson for J.C. Penny, because DeGeneres was an “open homosexual.”
They also boycotted Marvel and DC Comics issues for featuring gay characters in storylines they described as “brainwashing and desensitizing experiences” for children, written to “influence them in thinking that a gay lifestyle choice is normal and desirable.”
Despite the group’s moniker suggesting a million members, OMM has only about 105,000 social media followers.
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As of this writing, OMM’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade boycott petition has 19,243 signatures.
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https://www.comicsands.com/one-million-moms-boycotts-macys-2666256564.html
