Federal Appeals Court Upholds Florida's Ban on Exposing Children to 'Lewd' Drag Shows

A federal appeals court has upheld Florida’s child protection law that seeks to prevent kids from attending or being exposed to “adult live performances” like suggestive drag shows or lewd "drag queen" story hours.

Florida law banning kids at drag shows is constitutional, appeals court says  Miami Herald

The 11th Circuit ruled 8-5 that Hamburger Mary's failed to show it would likely succeed in its First Amendment challenge to Florida's drag show law.

A federal appeals court upheld Florida’s ban on children attending sexually explicit performances, including drag shows, as lawful, tossing out rulings from lower courts that had found the ban unconstitutional. Florida lawmakers passed the Protection of Children Act in 2023, which made it a misdemeanor to allow minors