Drag Show

Attorneys for Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration told a federal appeals court that a law aimed at preventing children from attending drag shows is tailored to the state's "unquestioned interest in protecting children from exposure to obscenity."

This year's "Men Who Dance" festival features a fitting response to Florida's increasingly anti-LGBTQ and anti-trans political climate.

The justices on Thursday refused to narrow a lower-court order that prohibited the law from being enforced statewide.

It's seeking to keep a preliminary injunction against a law that wound bar children from attending drag shows intact.

Officials filed an application with the nation’s highest court on Friday asking that the prohibition against enforcing the anti-drag show law only be limited to the Orlando, Florida, restaurant which challenged its constitutionality.

A federal appeals court Wednesday refused to put on hold a ruling that blocked a Florida law aimed at preventing children from attending drag shows.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is asking a federal appeals court to largely put on hold a ruling that blocked a new law aimed at preventing children from attending drag shows.

Gary Israel, an attorney for the restaurant that challenged Florida's anti-drag law, says a pair of orders from a federal judge makes clear that drag performances in themselves are not lewd or lascivious behavior.

A federal judge says that his order blocking a Florida law targeting drag shows doesn’t just apply to the restaurant that brought a lawsuit challenging it but other venues in the state.

The state agency that regulates businesses on Wednesday asked the judge who ruled against it last week to allow the law to be enforced while its appeal is pending.

The complaint was filed in Orlando federal court by the owner of a Hamburger Mary’s restaurant, which regularly hosts drag shows, including family-friendly performances on Sundays where children were invited to attend.

Arguing the measure does not "target" drag shows, Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is urging a federal judge to toss out a constitutional challenge to a new law that bars children from attending "adult live" performances.