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Arkansas Bill Classifies Drag Show As Adult-Oriented Business

View Source | January 10, 2023 1:06 pm

A bill filed Monday in the Arkansas Senate would define a drag performance as an adult-oriented business and place restrictions on where they could take place.
Senate Bill 43, sponsored by Arkansas Sen. Gary Stubblefield and Rep. Mary Bentley, adds “drag performance” to the list of adult-oriented businesses in the Arkansas code, which includes adult cabarets, adult theatres or nude model studios.
The bill goes on to define a drag performance as something where a performer “Exhibits a gender identity that is different from the performer’s gender assigned at birth using clothing, makeup, or other accessories that are traditionally worn by members of and are meant to exaggerate the gender identity of the performer’s opposite sex.”