"When you speak out like this, it does have a tendency to make you a little bit more of a target," she says. "We've now got an officer with a metal detector wand and everything checking folks before they come in." The club has doubled up its security since the controversy erupted last week.
Melissa Brown, a state politics reporter for The Tennessean, spills the tea on Tennessee’s new drag restrictions. And drag performer Bella DuBalle promises the state’s queens have no plans to sashay away.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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