Tennessee takes lead in Republican effort to restrict drag shows

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Tennessee lawmakers will debate on Thursday whether to restrict drag performances in public or in front of children, one of more than a dozen bills limiting…

The bills have come as modern drag has grown from an underground performance art using costumes and makeup to play with gender norms, which flourished in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender venues, to a mainstream entertainment, helped in part by the popularity of the televised pageant show “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.

Tennessee, like other states, already has public indecency and obscenity laws that ban excessively violent or sexual performances in front of minors, regardless of the performer’s gender. Drag performances typically do not involve nudity or stripping. As a trans woman, Peppermint said she would hesitate going to Tennessee should the bill become law, saying trans performers even when not doing drag might be accused of being a male or female impersonator, terms not defined in the statute.

 

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