The Tennessee senate is criminalizing public drag performances (which they helpfully extend to all “burlesque” including “go-go” and “stripping”), because kids aren’t dying from guns, bullying, opiates and state violence, they’re getting dragged to death
https://www.actionnews5.com/2023/02/09/tenn-senate-passes-bill-criminalizing-public-drag-performances/
Tenn. Senate passes bill criminalizing public drag performances

The Tennessee Senate passed a bill aimed at criminalizing public drag performances.

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@originalspin So good they're concentrating on the really important stuff
@originalspin Well duh. To Christian Dominionists a dead child goes straight to heaven, so hey, big reward! Your kid won the lottery! And you made the Sacrifice of Abraham so big sky-points for mom and dad too!
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Whereas a kid who knows that gay/queer even exists is sullied and ruined - their innocence has been stolen. The kids' odds of the heaven lottery just got longer and by extension so did their parents'.
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It's fucked up, idiot superstition, but stoking this fear is where the great sense of grievance is being fueled from
@Mascqueerade @originalspin Those rascally Christofascists, trying to sneak in a theocracy again!
@originalspin to clarify, this bill doesn't include physically dragging someone behind a truck.
@originalspin I thought go-go dancers became extinct in 1968.
@originalspin No more Kabuki for Tennessee!
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Oh, they'll find a way to keep the strip joints, that's for sure... F'ng rednecks, the entire south and midwest just needs to go away, finance themselves and leave the union, they just suck at the federal tit and my state supplies all of the money. If I have to get a visa to go to Tennessee, fine, I'm never going there again anyway, nor TX, FL, MS, IA, OH, GA, ....
@originalspin There are first amendment concerns as well as gender discrimination concerns with the law. Criminalizing conduct for men that is ok for women, that is, wearing a dress and lipstick. Arguably violated Equal Protectiin clause of 14th Amendment.
@originalspin I’m laughing out of frustration. They really are trying to erase us.
@originalspin so THAT'S what they meant when they said "slay"
@originalspin So basically #Tennessee is mandating a dress code by gender. That has to violate several Amendments.