U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker has ruled that the Tennessee law that bans “adult cabaret performances” is unconstitutional. In March, Friends of George’s, an LGBTQ theater company at the Evergreen Theatre,

U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker says the first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional.

A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump has ruled against Tennessee’s ban on drag performances, saying that the law is both “unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad,” that it will encourage “discriminatory enforcement,

The law would have banned adult cabaret performances from public property or anywhere minors might be present.

A Trump-appointed federal judge says Tennessee’s first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional.

A federal judge tossed out Tennessee’s controversial “anti-drag” law just after midnight Friday. The law would have restricted drag performances in the state. Judge Thomas Parker ruled the law unconstitutional after closing arguments in hearings about the state’s recent passage of the bill concluded in May.