As an early victory in LGBTQ Pride Month, a federal judge in Tennessee has ruled unconstitutional the state law banning the millennia-old entertainment genre of drag from public areas and from where children may view them, Politico reports.
Judge Thomas Parker, a Trump appointee, said the state law against “adult cabaret entertainment” was “unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad” in his decision on a lawsuit brought by a Friends of George’s, a Memphis-based LGBTQ+ performance group. Parker said the law illegally prohibited artistic expressions and that “[s]uch speech is protected by the First Amendment.”