A West Texas A&M student-led LGBT+ organization and its leaders have filed a federal lawsuit after a student drag show was canceled Monday by the university’s president, who called such shows “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny'
A West Texas A&M student-led LGBT+ organization and its leaders have filed a federal lawsuit after a student drag show was canceled Monday by the university’s president, who called such shows “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny,” drawing backlash from students and free speech advocates. The lawsuit filed Friday by the student organization, Spectrum WT, against university President Walter Wendler and other school leaders alleges that Wendler “is openly defying the Constitution.
+ suicide prevention,” the lawsuit, filed in US District Court in the Northern District of Texas, reads. The plaintiffs are asking the court to stop the school from preventing the drag show from moving forward on March 31, and from holding similar future events on campus. They seek damages and attorneys’ fees for the school administration’s alleged First Amendment violations.
young people. Wendler’s decision and remarks drew backlash from both students and advocates. A Change.org petition has previously said the university’s student body “is calling for the reinstatement” of the performance on campus and called its canceling an “indirect attack on the LGBT+, feminist, and activist communities of the WTAMU student body.
advocates have told CNN those bills add a heightened state of alarm for the community, are discriminatory and could violate First Amendment laws. Earlier in March, Tennessee became the first state this year to restrict public drag show performances. Its law will go into effect on July 1. A Texas House bill introduced this year also seeks to regulate public venues hosting drag performances. At least nine other states are also considering anti-drag legislation.
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