A federal judge says Tennessee’s first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional.

Tennessee’s first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional, a federal judge says.

The law would have banned adult cabaret performances from public property or anywhere minors might be present.

The law would have banned adult cabaret performances from public property or anywhere minors might be present.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker says the first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional.

The outside of Atomic Rose where spectators watch a drag performance ahead of the implementation of a Tennessee law restricting drag in front of minors that is due to come into force on April 1 at Atomic Rose in Memphis,

Weeks after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed the controversial bill into law, a Memphis-based theater group filed suit in federal court.