TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 31, 2023

A Memphis LGBTQ theater company has filed the first legal challenge to Tennessee’s drag restrictions, WPLN reports. The group, known as Friends of George’s Inc., alleges that the law violates the First Amendment and will have a chilling effect on the state’s LGBTQ community. Read the filing here. Meanwhile, in Nashville, a protest planned to oppose recent legislative restrictions on drag shows and events for this weekend has been postponed. According to WPLN, Nashville Pride and Inclusion Tennessee decided to postpone the gathering citing the threat of anti-LGBTQ violence. The march had been scheduled to take place on Saturday, the day the new state law restricting drag in public spaces is set to go into effect.