A federal judge in Texas has stopped the state’s ban on drag performances, which was scheduled to go into place Friday, enforcing a temporary injunction on the measure in a win for LGBTQ rights advocates.
A group of drag performance groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas, filed a suit against the state early this month claiming that the law is overly broad and infringes on their freedom of speech.
“The Court finds there is a substantial likelihood that S.B. 12 as drafted violates the First Amendment of the United States Constitution under one or more of the legal theories put forward by the Plaintiffs,” District Judge David Hittner wrote in his opinion Thursday.
I love how all the protestors are claiming that drag is now sexual. That or they haven’t actually read the text of the law.
And before y’all jump down my throat, heres the text: https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/SB00012F.htm
There’s a lot about obvious nudity and pornography but this section is vague and subjective as fuck. Some asshole could argue that he got horny therefore the drag performer committed a crime.