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

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

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

A federal judge says Tennessee’s first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional. In a ruling late Friday, U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker wrote

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.