Tennessee’s recently enacted law bans “adult cabaret performances” in public or in front of children. Experts say how the law is enforced could affect drag performers, transgender people and other members of the LGBTQ community. Litigation is likely.
It is set to go into effect April 1.
Pride parades commonly draw families and feature celebratory dancing by adults wearing drag. Could someone who doesn’t like what they observe argue that this is a violation of the law?"It would really depend on the facts, but in a case like that the defense might have a strong argument that what that particular person did was not ‘adult cabaret entertainment,’" Bach said.
The law leaves undefined"male and female impersonators" and state lawmakers often conflate people in drag and transgender people, Reed said. We are concerned that government officials could easily abuse SB 3/HB 9 to censor people based on their own subjective viewpoints of what they deem appropriate."they may cancel the organization’s October festivities in response to the law.
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