The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City has certainly come a long way since a young Natalie Wood watched it from her Manhattan apartment window in the classic film “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947.) Now, in addition to the balloons and the marching bands, the kiddies can look at drag queens from the musical “Kinky Boots:” a play about a struggling shoe factory that switches to making fetish style footwear for the transvestite market. The inclusion of the performances from the Broadway show is of little shock as the entire Parade has become nothing more than a venue for various corporations and pop-stars to publicize their products and albums. Though, it is too bad that American culture has degraded so much that sexual eccentricities are at present acceptable for the general audience. And, that’s what a parade essentially is: it’s putting on public display the most prosaic and centrist that a culture has to offer. Today, is seems that drag queens are as American as turkey on Thanksgiving and Santa Claus at the department store.