Deadline: Actors’ Equity Association has condemned Tennessee’s new legislation restricting drag performance, urging theaters in the state to “join us in rejecting it entirely and lobbying for its elimination.”
The union, which represents actors and stage managers in live theater, also said it is “monitoring the progress of similarly dystopian laws in other states.”
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I am very glad that Actor’s Equity is trying to make a stand against this horrible law. For a very long time, people have been afraid of being political and I hope that that is over. Legislation like this actively harms so many people in the theater community and we as a community should stand up for them. Even more than that, we should be standing up and fighting against horrible legislation like this just because it’s the right thing to do. We have to fight injustice wherever we see it and stand up for what we believe in. I hope that Actor’s Equity continues to fight laws like this. I also hope that more theaters and members of the theater community will stand up and fight against injustice. We have such a powerful platform to inspire change and we should be using it however and whenever we can. We should not be sitting idly by as injustice happens around us.
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