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News Articles: drag shows

Drag king Freddie Hercury performs at an event in Homer, N.Y., in 2023. The artist faced an online bomb threat in the run-up to a Pride performance in 2024.

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  • Performing Arts

Drag artists are getting attacked. This safety handbook aims to help.

As Pride Month approaches, a group of drag artists and their allies are releasing guidelines to help performers navigate a landscape of online harassment and physical violence.

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving drag shows in Texas.

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  • Law

Supreme Court again refuses to intervene in drag show controversy

It was the second time the court has refused to step into a drag controversy this term.

March 15, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Elissa Harwood
The popular restaurant chain Hamburger Mary's, which features drag waitresses and family-friendly drag performances, has won a legal battle after filing a lawsuit against Florida's drag show ban. The chain's Orlando, Fla., restaurant is seen on June 13.

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  • National

Judge blocks a Florida law that would punish venues where kids can see drag shows

The ruling, in a case brought by a Hamburger Mary's restaurant, pauses enforcement of the state's new "Protection of Children" law, which prohibits admitting children to an "adult live performance."

June 27, 2023
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Drag artist Vidalia Anne Gentry speaks during a Feb. 14 news conference held by the Human Rights Campaign to draw attention to anti-drag bills in the Tennessee legislature.

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  • National

A federal judge rejects Tennessee's anti-drag law as too broad and vague

U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker says the first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional.

June 03, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Julie Mabry, the owner of Houston's only lesbian bar, says her business is in jeopardy after the bar was denied insurance coverage. Mabry says the blame is due in part to an anti-drag show bill moving through the Texas Legislature.

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  • National

Houston lesbian bar was denied insurance coverage for hosting drag shows, owner says

Julie Mabry, who opened Pearl Bar in 2013, said the bar was created to provide a safe space for those in Houston's LGBTQ+ community.

May 19, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Members of the white nationalist group National Socialist Florida use a laser projector to display white nationalist and anti-LGBTQ images on the side of the CSX building and other high-rise buildings in Jacksonville, Fla.

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  • National

In Florida, far-right groups look to seize the moment

A far-right group in Jacksonville, Fla., has been regularly projecting hate symbols onto downtown buildings. Groups like this look to capitalize on what they see as a favorable political climate.

March 10, 2023
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By:
  • Sergio Olmos and
  • Jim Urquhart
Flags fly over the state capitol, Friday, Feb.11, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. Republican lawmakers there are working to restrict drag shows in the state.

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  • Politics

At least 9 GOP-led state legislatures want to restrict or criminalize drag shows

Lawmakers in Tennessee are advancing a bill that would restrict drag show performances in the state. This bill and others like it threaten the LGBTQ community as well as businesses, critics say.

February 08, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz

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