Showing posts with label Bill Lee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Lee. Show all posts

Friday, July 7, 2023

Drag and the First Amendment are fabulous together

  A deluge of headlines about state laws to restrict drag performances like drag story hours at libraries make it seem like these are recent debates.

  They are not.

  Drag and the First Amendment are part of a larger and long-running question about how far free expression extends. Free speech includes the right of free expression, which includes how people express themselves through what they wear.

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Why a federal judge found Tennessee’s anti-drag law unconstitutional

  The drag shows will go on. At least for now.

  On June 2, 2023, Judge Thomas Parker, a Trump-appointed federal district court judge in western Tennessee, ruled that Tennessee’s “Adult Entertainment Act” violated the First Amendment’s free speech protection.