{"id":146996,"date":"2025-05-16T23:42:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146996"},"modified":"2025-05-16T23:42:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:42:34","slug":"florida-drag-ban-halted-by-appellate-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=146996","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Florida Drag Ban Halted By Appellate Court&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/florida-drag-ban-halted-by-appellate-court_n_6823962fe4b0993b52bf5460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuffPo<\/a>: &#8220;A ban on minors attending family-friendly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/future-of-drag-under-donald-trump_n_67475a68e4b08e4755036246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drag shows<\/a>&nbsp;in Florida was halted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Tuesday after judges&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/big.assets.huffingtonpost.com\/athena\/files\/2025\/05\/13\/68236f82e4b0abb583597540.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruled<\/a>&nbsp;2-1 that it violated the First Amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ruling marks a major victory for Hamburger Mary\u2019s of Orlando, a restaurant in the Sunshine State that offers food and entertainment, including drag performances \u2014 and specifically family-friendly drag shows on Sundays \u2014 to its patrons&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge Robin Rosenbaum said Florida lawmakers had essentially applied a non-legal, \u201cnon-definition\u201d of obscenity made popular by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1964. Potter famously said his threshold to test obscenity was simply that he would \u201cknow it when I see it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMany know Justice Stewart\u2019s quip. But it\u2019s not, in fact, the law,\u201d Rosenbaum wrote Tuesday, adding that SB 1438\u2019s approach to regulating expression \u201cwields a shotgun when the First Amendment allows a scalpel at most.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: &#8220;A ban on minors attending family-friendly&nbsp;drag shows&nbsp;in Florida was halted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Tuesday after judges&nbsp;ruled&nbsp;2-1 that it violated the First Amendment. The ruling marks a major victory for Hamburger Mary\u2019s of Orlando, a restaurant in the Sunshine State that offers food and entertainment, including drag&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146997,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146996\/revisions\/146997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}