In fall of 2022, nearly a dozen political and religious leaders met with Pride festival organizers in a back room of Jackson City Hall in West Tennessee. What happened at that Jackson meeting? The anger caused Jackson Mayor Scott Conger to gather the city’s legal team, local pastors, Pride organizers, Todd and Sen. Ed Jackson, R-Jackson, for a meeting. “I was done at that moment.”Organizers returned, though, and Jackson Pride agreed to move the festival and performance indoors to the local civic center. Since that meeting and the legislation that followed, Tennessee’s restriction on drag performance has received nationwide attention.

Source: Fox News March 09, 2023 18:09 UTC