A federal judge threw out the Texas drag ban this week, and part of the reasoning was that the law had been written so loosely it could have reached Dolly Parton — the big hair, the flamboyant clothes, the whole rhinestone architecture of her.
She died Tuesday. She had spent a lifetime being claimed by people who never asked her permission, and politely declining every one of them.
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The vagueness in these bills is not sloppiness. It is the product.
A law that could catch anybody is a law that can be pointed at whoever you like this month, and the men who write them know that going in — which is why the judge reaching for the most beloved woman in the American South was not a joke. It was the demonstration. #DollyParton #Drag #Texas #LGBTQ #QueerNews #TransRights #QueerRights #Music #CountryMusic #Journalism #History #Solidarity
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