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Drag shows, including readings at libraries, in several states have been the target of multiple anti-drag show bills in recent years, and protestors have gathered at libraries in opposition to drag queen story hour events.
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Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2024
The drag show bill, which broadens the state’s obscenity law to apply to some live performances, was temporarily put on hold by a federal judge in central Florida this month after a restaurant sued over it.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
The show bills itself as being about personality connections rather than appearances.
—Meghan De Maria, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2023
Maren Morris takes a stand against Tennessee's drag show bill Proceeds from the show were due to support The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ young people.
—Raja Razek, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
Maren Morris is taking a stand against Tennessee's controversial drag show bill.
—Dave Paulson, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
Among other violations of council policy, the audit found mileage reimbursements made without required personal mileage logs and phone reimbursements without documents showing billing account numbers or receipts for payment.
—Robert Higgs, cleveland.com, 27 Aug. 2019
Bill Nye hosted the popular PBS show Bill Nye the Science Guy for five years in the 1990s
Could extraterrestrial life be out there?
—Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2019
That being said, he got slammed for this joke, and it wasn’t mentioned that this was a late-night show billed as an offensive show.
—Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 30 Nov. 2018
Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2024
The drag show bill, which broadens the state’s obscenity law to apply to some live performances, was temporarily put on hold by a federal judge in central Florida this month after a restaurant sued over it.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
The show bills itself as being about personality connections rather than appearances.
—Meghan De Maria, Glamour, 23 Oct. 2023
Maren Morris takes a stand against Tennessee's drag show bill Proceeds from the show were due to support The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ young people.
—Raja Razek, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
Maren Morris is taking a stand against Tennessee's controversial drag show bill.
—Dave Paulson, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
Among other violations of council policy, the audit found mileage reimbursements made without required personal mileage logs and phone reimbursements without documents showing billing account numbers or receipts for payment.
—Robert Higgs, cleveland.com, 27 Aug. 2019
Bill Nye hosted the popular PBS show Bill Nye the Science Guy for five years in the 1990s
Could extraterrestrial life be out there?
—Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2019
That being said, he got slammed for this joke, and it wasn’t mentioned that this was a late-night show billed as an offensive show.
—Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 30 Nov. 2018
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circa 1750, in the meaning defined above
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