Arkansas’ SB 43 would not just ban drag performances, activists say, but also curtail trans and non-binary people’s public lives—and endanger LGBTQ venues and Pride events.
SB 43 has become known as an anti-drag bill, and if passed it would be the first of its kind in recent times though hardly a historical first—laws aimed at punishing those who trespass against traditional modes of gender presentation date back to the 1850’s. But it is SB 43’s vague language and definitions—intentional, many activists say—that make it even more insidious than simply a “drag ban.
Drag activist Athena Sinclair , who addressed the Senate on the issue, told The Daily Beast that the bill would “decimate” bars and other venues that are “safe spaces” for LGBTQ Arkansans—and criminalize trans people, drag queens, and nonbinary people even if they were speaking in front of legislators as she just did. The Miss Gay America pageant could not happen any more because it would be against the law to do so in a theater.
Stuthard said the bill was “very frustrating. It sexualizes drag, and the loose wording of it attacks many aspects of the community I belong to. They say it’s not against trans or non-binary people, but how can we believe that when it’s all so badly defined and we don’t know how it will be put into action. And if I was a conservative parent I’d be mad because it was controlling my right to parent.
“As society has shifted, and queer people have been allowed to participate in regular life, our artforms, like drag, are also found in public.came to a local theater here. The drummer was trans. Does that mean that music or theater venue can’t hold the event without being known as an ‘adult’ venue? The musicalNothing we do is ‘prurient,’ but this law is about what that lies in the eye of the beholder, and possibly a straight, bigoted gaze.
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