Lesbian Florida Politician Celebrates Her Win With Drag Queen at Victory Party
"I'm ecstatic, and yes I had a drag queen at my victory party,” Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan said.
November 7, 2023
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"I'm ecstatic, and yes I had a drag queen at my victory party,” Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan said.
Lower courts have continued to block the anti-drag law.
The judge had issued the original block last Friday only hours before the law was to take effect.
The law can't go into effect for at least another two weeks as deliberations on a lawsuit continue.
Florida passed anti-drag and anti-trans legislation on Wednesday, and many other states have either already passed laws or are attempting to.
Blount County prosecutor Ryan Desmond says the law is enforceable in his jurisdiction. Now Pride organizers and drag performer Flamy Grant are suing him.
Very different conclusions came from two federal judges in the same state.
The ban on drag story hours and other performances is blatantly unconstitutional, according to a coalition of individuals and institutions.
The singer and rapper said she was creating a safe space to celebrate drag.
“We’ve got a real problem in this country, and to be worrying about men wanting to dress up as women? God bless ’em to wear those high heels," McEntire said.
"WE WON!" the drag-centric theater group that brought the suit wrote on Instagram.
It was to go into effect on April 1 at midnight.
Blount County's prosecutor had threatened to enforce the unconstitutional law against a local Pride festival.
The owner of Hamburger Mary's Orlando said the bill is a violation of their First Amendment rights.
The White House press secretary blasted Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee for signing a bill restricting drag performances.
Many organizers with events planned in the month of June must decide now if they want to be test cases for the law.
The Republican governor signed that bill along with three other anti-LGBTQ+ pieces of legislation on Wednesday.
Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn't signed the anti-drag bill into law yet, but Pride organizers in Port St. Lucie decided to cancel a parade and make its festival 21-and-older.
Adria Jawort, a Native American trans woman, was to speak on the history of LGBTQ+ and Two-Spirit people in the state.
Madonna labeled recent anti-drag and anti-gender-affirming care laws as "unfounded and pathetic."