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At Sunday night’s Country Music Awards performance in Nashville, country music superstar Kelsea Ballerini gave the artistic middle finger to transphobic Tennessee Republican politicians by featuring a troupe of drag queens on stage for her performance of her song, “If You Go Down (I’m Going Down Too),” a song Ballerina and her collaborators wrote to celebrate friendships.
Tennessee’s draconian law banning drag shows–an art form that has been around for at least three millennia and has been practiced by ancient Roman actors, Shakespearian performers, and modern performers like Tyler Perry, Jack Lemmon, Robin Williams and Barbra Streisand–was supposed to take effect April 1st but a federal judge temporarily banned the law from going into effect.