{"id":1579572,"date":"2022-07-29T17:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579572"},"modified":"2022-07-29T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:04:08","slug":"restaurant-says-drag-shows-will-go-on-despite-opposition-from-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/restaurant-says-drag-shows-will-go-on-despite-opposition-from-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Says Drag Shows Will Go On Despite Opposition From Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frestaurant-says-drag-shows-will-go-on-despite-opposition-from-governor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579572&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>PUNTA GORDA, Fla.\u2014A Miami restaurant is in the sights of Gov. Ron DeSantis for holding drag queen shows where children were part of the audience\u2014and the show\u2014but its owners are pushing back against a complaint filed by the state where investigators called the venue a \u201cnuisance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They say the controversial drag show will go on in spite of Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 criticism.<\/p>\n<p>At the urging of the governor, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) is targeting the liquor license of the R House, which stands accused of exposing children to \u201csexually explicit\u201d drag queen shows after an investigation conducted by the state.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the restaurant told reporters, \u201cIt\u2019s business as usual at R House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/10\/10\/drag-queens-1200x736.jpg\"><\/a> Drag queens Athena Kills (C) and Scalene Onixxx arrive to awaiting adults and children for Drag Queen Story Hour at Cellar Door Books in Riverside, Calif. on June 22, 2019. (Frederic J. Brown\/AFP\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of right now we are set to continue this weekend,\u201d said Larry Carrino, a restaurant spokesman on July 28. \u201cThere are no plans to alter operation while the client and their attorney are working with the state to remedy the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Owen Bale, co-owner of R House, said there has been \u201coverflowing\u201d support since the dispute unfolded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a lovely, positive vibe in the restaurant last night [July 27] and look forward to serving our guests tonight and in the days and nights to come,\u201d Bale said in a released statement on July 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cR House is and always will be an all-inclusive environment and we thank our fans, friends, and the entire community for the positive, heartfelt support we\u2019ve received in the wake of the complaint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The controversy began on July 26, when DBPR filed a complaint asking for a final order on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUNTA GORDA, Fla.\u2014A Miami restaurant is in the sights of Gov. Ron DeSantis for holding drag queen shows where children were part of the audience\u2014and the show\u2014but its owners are pushing back against a complaint filed by the state where investigators called the venue a \u201cnuisance.\u201d They say the controversial drag show will go on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}