Tennessee ban on drag shows in front of children temporarily blocked by judge

A federal justice successful Tennessee temporarily blocked a instrumentality that would person restricted resistance performances successful beforehand of children from going into effect.

The restraining bid was issued Friday, with the justice saying the authorities was apt "vague and overly-broad" successful its regularisation of speech. The measure would person different gone into effect connected Saturday.

Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee signed the measure successful February aft it passed done the state's legislature. The measurement was designed to restrict resistance performances successful nationalist oregon successful beforehand of children, arsenic conservatives crossed the state reason that the shows are inappropriate for younger audiences. 

Lee antecedently said the instrumentality would support children from perchance being exposed to "sexualized entertainment" oregon "obscenity."

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A national justice successful Tennessee temporarily blocked a instrumentality that would person restricted resistance performances successful nationalist from going into effect. (Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

There person been GOP-led efforts to bounds resistance successful astatine slightest 15 states successful caller months.

The Memphis, Tennessee, justice sided with Friends of George's, a Memphis-based LGBTQ+ theatre radical that filed a lawsuit against the state.

"At this point, the tribunal finds that the statute is apt some vague and overly-broad," U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker said successful the ruling.

Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee signed the measure successful February aft it passed done the state's legislature. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

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Parker, who erstwhile President Donald Trump appointed, said the authorities had not justified with a compelling involvement the restrictions it intended to impose.

The statement astir resistance shows successful Tennessee has mostly centered connected whether resistance is inherently sexually explicit.

The measurement was designed to restrict resistance performances successful nationalist oregon successful beforehand of children. (TEDx Talks/YouTube/Video Screenshot)

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Performers and civilian rights groups person criticized the projected resistance restrictions, arguing that specified regulations are unconstitutional, redundant nether existing obscenity laws and would pb to much harassment and unit against LGBTQ+ people.

Reuters contributed to this report.