A Florida official wants to cancel a sold-out Christmas drag show. The queens are performing anyway

A Drag Queen Christmas, featuring artists from RuPaul’s Drag Race, will stop in Pensacola despite the state attorney general’s efforts to stop it

Florida’s AG demanded holiday drag show be canceled. It’s still on

Pensacola City Council declined to cancel a performance of “A Drag Queen Christmas.” The show comes to St. Petersburg on Monday.
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Florida tried to shut down this Christmas drag show. It sold out the entire venue.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier spent two months trying to shut down a Pensacola production of A Drag Queen Christmas, a holiday-themed show featuring former competitors from RuPaul’s Drag Race. Uthmeier called the show “demonic,” “anti-Christian,” and “harmful” to children — instead, the December 23 show sold out its 1,600-seat venue.
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Houston performers relieved federal judge suspends Texas' ban on drag shows: 'Art is not a crime'

AUSTIN, Texas (KTRK) -- Texas cannot enforce a new law that restricts some public drag shows, a federal judge said Tuesday in declaring the legislation unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge David Hittner found Senate Bill 12 "impermissibly infringes on the ...

'A Drag Queen Christmas' show goes on amid protests at Pensacola's Saenger Theatre

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Months after controversy, "A Drag Queen Christmas" went on Tuesday night at the Pensacola Saenger Theatre. The traveling show has been to the theatre before. Conservatives and several congregations say its timing just two days before Christmas is where they draw the line.
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