Arkansas proposes bill that would ban children from attending drag shows
The new bill, SB 43, seeks to redefine drag shows as an “adult-oriented business” and as a result, disallow the attendance of anyone under the age of 18.State Senator Gary Stubblefield and State Rep. Mary Bentley sponsored the bill that was filed Monday.
Bentley noted that the proposed bill would set the same restrictions on drag performances that strip clubs currently have.The legislation defines a drag show as an event that includes a performer who “exhibits a gender identity that is different from the performer's gender assigned at birth using clothing, makeup, or other accessories that are traditionally worn by members of and are meant to exaggerate the gender identity of the performer's opposite sex.
"The audacity of this bill to try to say that we aren't being appropriate in front of all audiences is absurd," drag performer Patty Johnson, who goes by the stage name of Lady Kakes Monroe, said. "It sexualizes all drag performance," Tullock stated."Is it that, like, we don't want people wearing low-cut shirts to read books to children? Or is this just about keeping any kind of queerness away from kids?"“We don't let our kids have tattoos, no matter where you're at or who the parents are. You don't let them go into a bar. You don't let them go into a casino,” the state senator added.
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