Federal appeals court dismisses lawsuit over Tennessee’s anti-drag show ban
Pageant winners throw out beads during the Memphis PRIDE Festival & Parade, June 4, 2022, in Memphis. A federal appeals court on Thursday, July 18, 2024, ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging Tennessee's first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows, reversing a lower court ruling that deemed the statute unconstitutional. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The court found that Friends of George’s was not at risk of violating the 2023 law because its performances were not “harmful to minors.”
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