{"id":1836078,"date":"2023-02-05T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T17:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1836078"},"modified":"2023-02-05T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T17:05:16","slug":"desantis-admin-moves-to-punish-florida-venue-that-hosted-sexually-explicit-drag-show-open-to-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-admin-moves-to-punish-florida-venue-that-hosted-sexually-explicit-drag-show-open-to-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Admin Moves To Punish Florida Venue That Hosted \u2018Sexually Explicit\u2019 Drag Show Open To Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fdesantis-admin-moves-to-punish-florida-venue-that-hosted-sexually-explicit-drag-show-open-to-kids%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=1836078&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-->\n<p>The administration of Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> (R-FL), moved to revoke the liquor licence of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida<\/a> The venue where the event was held \u201csexually explicit\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/drag-queen-story-hour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drag show<\/a> A Friday complaint stated that the facility was accessible to children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Orlando Philharmonic Plaza Foundation is a performance arts center that hosted a performance of \u201cA Drag Queen Christmas\u201d On December 28, an event was advertised as being open. \u201call ages\u201d Despite Florida&#8217;s warnings about restricting attendance at performances that were sexually explicit, this was not a problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation filed an official response after the show. <a href=\"https:\/\/flvoicenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-02-03-ADMINISTRATIVE-COMPLAINT-2022061146-ORLANDO-PHILHARMONIC-THE.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A complaint administrative<\/a> to revoke the venue\u2019s liquor license after determining that the performance was explicit and that there were children present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor DeSantis stands to protect the innocence of children, and the governor always follows through when he says he will do something,\u201d Bryan Griffin, DeSantis Press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/flvoicenews.com\/desantis-administration-is-revoking-liquor-license-of-orlando-sexual-drag-show-venue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a> in a statement to Florida\u2019s Voice News.<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, the theater \u201cpromoted the Show using targeted, Christmas-themed promotional materials that did not provide notice as to the sexually explicit nature of the show\u2019s performance or other content.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than call attention to the Show\u2019s sexually explicit content or acknowledge that it might not be appropriate for children, Respondent\u2019s promotional material unequivocally stated \u2018all ages welcome,\u2019\u201d The complaint continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the officials, the show\u2019s explicit content included: exposing prosthetic breasts and female genitalia, exposing the buttocks of performers, simulated masturbation, and sexually explicit children\u2019s Christmas songs like \u201cScrewdolph the Red-Nippled Reindeer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the complaint, the performance infringed on several Florida statutes. The agency was forced to revoke the liquor licence. This complaint is a follow-up to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/florida-investigates-alleged-sexually-explicit-performance-marketed-to-children-a-crime-in-florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation<\/a> Florida to several drag performances, one of which is Fort Lauderdale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In other states, Republicans have moved to prohibit children being exposed to explicit drag shows. A bill to ban children from attending these performances was introduced earlier in the week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbir.com\/article\/news\/politics\/tennessee-drag-show-cabaret-bill\/51-69211c27-114a-49de-a248-3038e27a8a81\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advance<\/a> In the Tennessee state Senate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republican state senator Jack Johnson introduced the proposal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/taxpayer-funded-tennessee-performing-arts-center-hosted-all-ages-drag-christmas-show-as-republicans-propose-banning-similar-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submitted<\/a> The Daily Wire December, that he is \u201ccautiously optimistic\u201d It would be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we would all agree that some of the video we have seen recently of some of these drag shows that were quote-unquote family-friendly were anything but that. And If I had attended one of those with my kids I would have been mortified and I would have wanted someone to be prosecuted for engaging in that kind of entertainment in front of my kids,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/taxpayer-funded-tennessee-performing-arts-center-hosted-all-ages-drag-christmas-show-as-republicans-propose-banning-similar-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee Performing Arts Center hosted by Taxpayer-Funded Tennessee \u2018All Ages\u2019 Republicans Want to Ban Similar Events at Christmas Show<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) moved to revoke the liquor license of a Florida venue that hosted a \u201csexually explicit\u201d drag show that was open to children, according to a complaint filed Friday.\u00a0 The Orlando Philharmonic Plaza Foundation, a performance art center, had hosted a performance of \u201cA Drag Queen Christmas\u201d on December &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1836081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4496,4980,7069,8899,5113,9346,4247,5368,8321,11076,15902],"class_list":["post-1836078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-admin","tag-desantis","tag-drag","tag-explicit","tag-florida","tag-hosted","tag-kids","tag-moves","tag-punish","tag-sexually","tag-venue"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836078","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}