Restrictions On Drag Shows Have A History In The U.S.
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🗓️ 6 March 2023
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In more than a dozen states, Republican lawmakers have been pushing similar bills.
Historian Jules Gill-Peterson of Johns Hopkins University says laws that target drag have a long history in the U.S, and LGBTQ people have fought back before.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a similar story playing out in more than a dozen Republican-controlled state houses |
| 0:12.0 | across the country. |
| 0:13.5 | You can see it in Kentucky. |
| 0:15.0 | There has been an onslaught of attack on the innocence of our children, and that is |
| 0:21.8 | why I wrote this bill. |
| 0:23.5 | That's Republican-State Senator Lindsey Titchner. |
| 0:26.5 | The attacks she's talking about? |
| 0:28.4 | I have some examples of what we are trying to stop and prevent from coming to the state |
| 0:34.2 | of Kentucky. |
| 0:36.2 | Drag queen Christmas. |
| 0:37.9 | Drag shows. |
| 0:38.9 | Titchner's bill would ban them from public property or anywhere they could be viewed |
| 0:43.3 | by children. |
| 0:44.6 | It advanced out of committee last week as opponents chanted shame. |
| 0:49.6 | Another bill in Idaho would allow parents of children who've witnessed live shows featuring |
| 0:54.3 | quote sexual conduct to sue for $10,000. |
| 0:59.3 | Critics say the language explicitly targets drag shows. |
| 1:03.4 | Here's Republican-State representative, Jaren Crane. |
| 1:06.2 | Do you think it would be reasonable that a parent or a child would have the ability to go |
| 1:11.3 | to a park and not have to see these shows whoever's performing them? |
| 1:17.1 | That bill passed out of committee last week too. |
| 1:19.8 | And last Thursday? |
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