At the start of March, Tennessee's governor Bill Lee signed a bill into law to make public drag performances a crime, making the state the first to restrict drag performances in 2023.
inherently obscene. ACLU-TN called the legislation a form of censorship, expressing concern that “government officials could easily abuse this law to censor people based on their own subjective viewpoints of what they deem appropriate, chilling protected free speech and sending a message to LGBTQ Tennesseans that they are not welcome in our state.”
, an organization for “creative arts, community outreach, and community partnership programs that reach the LGBTQ+ community in the Mid-South,” tellsthey first learned about drag queens on the internet. “I didn’t know anything about drag queens until I moved out of the house, had my own Netflix account, and my own little laptop in my dorm room," they recall. "I found my way through the internet. I never stepped into a gay bar until I was 21 years old.
“We have to reckon with a reality where children, yes, but a great number of teenagers who identify all over the map, really admire drag queens, drag artists, and entertainers, and look up to us as popular idols,” Mothie says., the competition show hosted by one of the most well-known drag queens, RuPaul Charles.was their main exposure to drag, before getting their start performing in venues like Play Dance Bar in Nashville.
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