Stars align, drag present invoice’s first listening to and LGBTQ+ rights rally each set for Thursday on the Capitol

A invoice that goals to categorise drag shows as adult-oriented businesses, thereby limiting the place they’ll occur, is the one merchandise on the agenda for the Senate’s Metropolis, County & Native Affairs Committee Thursday.

The committee will meet in room 272 on the Capitol as quickly because the Senate’s 10 a.m. session is over. Solely two payments and 4 appropriation gadgets are on the total Senate’s schedule, so it’s seemingly the ten a.m. session shall be fast. (Caveat: You’ll be able to by no means know for certain what they’ll stand up to.)

It will likely be hopping over there Thursday, with Governor Sarah Sanders and the Koch brothers’ Individuals for Prosperity squad shilling “college alternative” on the entrance steps at 10:30 a.m. whereas public college lecturers don purple for public ed on the second ground rotunda at 10:15 a.m.

Extra motion is scheduled for 3 p.m. as supporters of Arkansas’s LGBTQ+ neighborhood rally out entrance in protest of this session’s assaults on transgender individuals. Along with the drag present invoice, one other invoice filed this week would financially penalize public faculties that don’t be certain that college students use loos similar to the intercourse they had been assigned at beginning.

Present up and communicate out towards SB43 tomorrow. Be a part of us for a rally on the Arkansas Capitol steps at 3 p.m.

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— ACLU of Arkansas (@ArkansasACLU) January 18, 2023

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