The president of the university canceled a charity drag show

The A Fool’s Drag Race: Students Who Don’t Drink at the Sam Houston Park for a Free Speech Competition Can Come to a Judge’s Bench

A group of students at West Texas A&M University decided to go ahead with a charity drag show in another location after the school’s president canceled it.

The performance, titled “A Fool’s Drag Race,” will occur at the Sam Houston Park in Amarillo, according to a flyer posted by Spectrum WT, the university’s student-led LGBT+ organization. It is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. local time Friday, according to the post.

The student drag show was not going to happen at West Texas A&M University. In that email, Wendler said drag shows “discriminate against womanhood,” compared them to blackface and said there was “no such thing” as a harmless drag show, angering both students and free speech advocates and prompting a federal lawsuit.

The organization putting together the performance was determined to make it a reality and they used a GoFundMe page to raise money for a new venue, according to a group member. The money was raised on the platform by Thursday evening.

“Despite the pushback we’ve gotten from the university, we’re holding this show no matter what. K Klein told CNN in a statement that they don’t care if we are off-campus or not, their primary goal is to raise money and celebrate their identity at the same time. “The show must go on.”

The president of Spectrum WT was upset that the Texas A&M System would not protect the rights of the First Amendment. “We will be seeing President Wendler in court.”

CNN reached out to the vice president, chancellor and members of the regents of the Texas A&M University System for their reaction to the news.

The president made a decision that violated students’ First Amendment rights and the students are represented by the foundation.

Lee’s approval of the measure – one of nearly a dozen such bills working their way through GOP-led state legislatures – had made Tennessee the first state to restrict public drag show performances this year.

US District Court Judge Thomas L. Parker issued an order delaying enforcement of the measure for at least 14 days as he considers whether the ban is unconstitutional.

The court thinks that the statute is too broad and vague, and the state has failed to show how it should regulate drag performances so severely.

Legislation signed into law by Republican Gov. Bill Lee seeks to limit adult cabaret performances on public property so they can’t be seen by children. The ban specifically includes “male or female impersonators” who perform in a way that is “harmful to minors.” It was set to go into effect April 1.

The Court finds that the Defendants lack of a clear answer to the Statute’s purpose considering current state obscenity laws is likely to result in the subjecting of the Statute.

The plaintiff’s attorney, Melissa Stewart, celebrated the judge’s order, saying that it “will protect the First Amendment rights of not only our clients, but of the LGBTQIA community across Tennessee, while we move forward with the next steps in this litigation.”

Republicans say the performances expose children to sexual themes and imagery that are inappropriate, something that is rejected by advocates who say the measures are against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer community.

As drag culture has increasingly become more mainstream, such shows – which often feature men dressing as women in exaggerated makeup while singing or entertaining a crowd, though some shows feature bawdier content – have occasionally been the target of attacks, and LGBTQ advocates say the bills under consideration add to a heightened state of alarm for the community.