Supreme Court rejects emergency appeal to stage drag show at Texas university

FILE - The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 4, 2024. The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from a student group that has been blocked from staging a drag show at a public university in Texas.

The high court had previously refused to allow Florida to enforce its law targeting drag shows, while lower federal courts in a Montana, Tennessee and Texas blocked state bans from being implemented. Drag shows across the country have been targeted by right-wing activists and politicians, and events nationwide like drag story hours, where drag queens read books to children, have drawn protesters.

Spectrum WT sued, arguing that drag wasn't designed to be offensive and portraying it as a celebration of many things, including "queerness, gender, acceptance, love and especially femininity." The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which hears cases from Texas, refused to allow the drag show to go ahead or speed up its timetable for hearing and deciding the student group's appeal.

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