Software‘s Maynard James Keenan protested Florida’s new anti-drag ban on stage on the band’s Daytona Seaside gig final evening (Could 21).
On Sunday, the band performed the Welcome To Rockville pageant, and Keenan appeared on stage in drag, protesting the brand new invoice that turned regulation this week.
The regulation, signed by Governor Ron DeSantis, prohibits minors from attending drag exhibits amongst a variety of different anti-trans insurance policies.
This 12 months’s Welcome To Rockville was an all-ages pageant, which means that Keenan was technically in breach of the brand new regulation for his actions.
See footage from the present, by which Keenan wore a blonde wig, crimson lipstick and pretend breasts, under.
Maynard of TooL (an ideal circle and puscifer additionally) is an absolute legend. Performing final evening, in drag at their Florida present. pic.twitter.com/nDFIpjz3wF
— 🥀Imposter🥀 (@Imposter_Edits) May 22, 2023
Final month, Lizzo introduced out a number of drag performers, together with Ru-Paul’s Drag Race alumni, on stage along with her in Knoxville, Tennessee to protest the state’s ban on drag.
“In gentle of latest and tragic occasions and present occasions, I used to be advised by individuals on the web, ‘Cancel your exhibits in Tennessee,’ ‘Don’t go to Tennessee,’” Lizzo mentioned, to which the viewers booed. “You don’t must boo that particular person. Their causes have been legitimate.”
She continued: “However why would I not come to the individuals who want to listen to this message probably the most? … Why would I not create a protected area in Tennessee the place we will rejoice drag entertainers and rejoice our variations? And rejoice fats Black ladies?”
Paramore‘s Hayley Williams, who’s from Tennessee, additionally decried the laws. “As soon as once more our state has handed two regressive and unfathomably dangerous payments,” she wrote on her Instagram story.
