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Initech

(99,909 posts)
Wed May 24, 2023, 02:22 PM May 2023

Montana first to ban drag performers from reading to children in schools, libraries

Montana has become the first state to specifically ban people dressed in drag from reading books to children at public schools and libraries, part of a host of legislation aimed at the rights the LGBTQ community in Montana and other states.

Bills in Florida and Tennessee also appear to try to ban drag reading events, but both require the performances to be sexual in nature, which could be up for interpretation. Both bills also face legal challenges.

Montana’s law is unique because — while it defines such an event as one hosted by a drag king or drag queen who reads children’s books to minor children — it does not require a sexual element to be banned.

That makes Montana’s law the first to specifically ban drag reading events, said Sasha Buchert, an attorney with Lambda Legal, a national organization that seeks to protect the civil rights of the LGBTQ+ community and those diagnosed with HIV and AIDS.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/montana-first-ban-drag-performers-reading-children-rcna85977?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=646e1f7f2554420001bd0229&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter


This is getting absolutely off the rails insane. Fuck Gianforte.
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Montana first to ban drag performers from reading to children in schools, libraries (Original Post) Initech May 2023 OP
Void for VAGUENESS. elleng May 2023 #1
But scary clowns are ok? Easterncedar May 2023 #2
But republican pedophiles get the green light. Overwhelming cases of GOP being pedophiles. RKP5637 May 2023 #3

RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
3. But republican pedophiles get the green light. Overwhelming cases of GOP being pedophiles.
Wed May 24, 2023, 02:41 PM
May 2023

Hence, GOP = Gross Old Pedophiles.

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