Show-Me Draconian Drag Crackdown

Instead of Missouri Republicans using their super majority to work on highways, public education and healthcare . . . They're taking culture war bait and setting themselves up as bad guys amid cheap drama.

Example . . .

Representative Ben Baker of Neosho introduced House Bill 494 on Dec. 20, which would make performing in drag—in any venue minors could access—a class A misdemeanor. Repeat offenders would face class E felony charges, carrying with it a maximum sentence of four years in jail.

Baker’s bill outlaws “engaging in an adult cabaret performance if such performance is on public property or in a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult.” The proposed law targets drag performers and venues, many of which welcome audiences of all ages and encourage families to attend shows together.

Brief TKC aside . . .

Credit to all sides here . . .

Until very recently, drag shows were a mainstream and somewhat bland American pastime that garnered respectable audiences on prime time television. 

Now mistaken ideas about public dress codes and a debate over bad parenting has made the topic somehow more captivating than merely an exercise in questionable lip-syncing. 

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Bill by Missouri Republican seeks to ban drag shows from public venues

Representative Ben Baker of Neosho introduced House Bill 494 on Dec. 20, which would make performing in drag-in any venue minors could access-a class A misdemeanor. Repeat offenders would face class E felony charges, carrying with it a maximum sentence of four years in jail.