ACLU sues Tennessee district attorney who promises to enforce the state's new anti-drag show ban

The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee filed the lawsuit late Wednesday on behalf of a organization planning a Blount County Pride festival on Sept. 2. The ACLU is also representing drag performer Flamy Grant, who was hired to perform at the event. The plaintiffs are asking the federal court in eastern Tennessee to block the law from being enforced and declare it illegal.

The current tension is coming out of a rural county, some 395 miles east of Memphis, where District Attorney Ryan Desmond sent a letter to Blount County Pride organizers this week announcing that he planned to enforce the state’s anti-drag law. Desmond’s office declined to comment on the lawsuit. An email seeking comment from the spokesperson for the attorney general’s office, who is also named as a defendant in the complaint, was sent Thursday morning.

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