Where did this all start? How did drag queens get dragged into politics? For that, we turn to the city of Jackson, Tennessee.
Last month in Nashville, widely regarded as the entertainment capital of the South, Tennessee lawmakers passed a law that bans one class of entertainer:"male and female impersonators," otherwise known as drag performers. However, a day before, a federal judge temporarily blocked it for violating the First Amendment.
The community of Jackson never even saw the scheduled Pride performance before opponents raised thousands of dollars in donations and filed an injunction to prevent it from taking place. Todd then introduced the new bill as an obscenity statute to prevent"adult cabaret performers like drag queens from performing in public spaces where children could be present."
"I'm curious how many drag shows you've been to, and I'm curious, why targeting this?" she asked the Tennessee state Senate back in February."Because I'm thinking about a place where men wear tights: in WWE wrestling, and one third of the audience, at least, is children. But somehow someone dressing up and dancing is the problem?"
"The new law passed in Tennessee makes some drag performances a potential felony, and gives police new power to determine what is considered obscene," Tennessee drag performer Cyainhale told CBS News."The nature of the bill that scares me the most is the vagueness of it, and the fact that could be enforced in a bunch of ways that we don't really know."
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