The all-male, all-gay dancing group, called the Prancing Elites, was invited by organizers to perform at the Christmas parade last week. It did not go well.
The group’s style — known as “J-Setting” — is “a highly stylized modern lead and follow style of hip hop dance, characterized by cheerleading-style sharp movements to eight-beat count music.” Their moves are typical of what you’d see from a high school dance team or cheer squad. (Think: Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” video.) The difference is that the Prancing Elite are men, and they wear clothes typically associated with women.
Their performance did not go over well with the locals. The group heard plenty of jeers (“Oh my god, what’s that?”) as they strutted their stuff in midriff-baring Christmas sweaters, snug white shorts, and plenty of make-up. The post-performance reactions weren’t much better, according to AL.com:
Within hours, members of the community in Semmes, Alabama called parade organizers and posted on social media, most of them in shock. At least one woman demanded an apology, saying she had “never been so insulted” in her life. Others wrote that they were disgusted and children should not have been exposed to the dancers.A woman interviewed in the news report below — as she clutched her child, of course — was “outraged and appalled” at the performance. “Many in the crowd thought the dance group was inappropriate,” she explained. “If they were going to put this kind of activity in the parade, they should have notified the people of Semmes so that we had a choice whether we wanted our child to attend and see something like that."
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