The state of Florida is yanking the liquor license of an Orlando performance venue, saying the “Drag Queen Christmas” show it hosted in December was sexually explicit while being marketed to families and children.
Advertising for the event “did not provide notice as to the sexually explicit nature of the Show’s performance or other content,” the state’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco said in its complaint against the Orlando Philharmonic Plaza Foundation Inc., filed Feb. 3.
“Respondent promoted the Show using targeted, Christmas-themed promotional materials that did not provide notice as to the sexually explicit nature of the Show’s performance or other content,” the complaint said, referencing a photo of the event’s listing online included as evidence.
“Rather than call attention to the Show’s sexually explicit content or acknowledge that it might not be appropriate for children, Respondent’s promotional material unequivocally stated “all ages welcome.”
“Prior to the Show occurring and based on media reports about the Show at other locations, Petitioner sent a letter to Respondent notifying Respondent that ‘sexually explicit drag show performances constitute public nuisances, lewd activity and disorderly conduct when minors are in attendance’ and that, if Respondent failed to ensure that minors were prohibited from attending such performances, its license would be subject to penalties up to and including revocation.”
Notice on Door
The center nevertheless allowed minors to attend, the complaint states. Its only response was to post a notice on its door that said, “while we are not restricting access to anyone under 18 please be advised some may think the context is not appropriate for under 18.”
The notice was barely visible, as it was printed in small font on a piece of paper taped to the door, the state said in the complaint.
The complaint includes photos of children attending the event and some of the objectionable content as evidence.
The complaint charges the arts center with six counts: allowing performers to expose themselves in a lewd or lascivious manner and simulate sexual activity in the presence of children under 16; operating a “place of lewdness”; “allowing performers to expose prosthetic genitalia and breasts in a vulgar or indecent manner in the presence of children”; knowingly selling tickets to an obscene performance to an audience including children; disorderly conduct; and maintaining a nuisance.
In the complaint, the division’s attorney asks its director, Sterling Whisenhunt, to revoke the center’s liquor license.
The complaint describes examples of the show’s sexually explicit content, which The Epoch Times does not include in this account.
Efforts to reach the Orlando Philharmonic Plaza Foundation Inc. were unsuccessful. The nonprofit group has yet to respond to an email from The Epoch Times.
“Governor (Ron) DeSantis stands to protect the innocence of children, and the governor always follows through when he says he will do something,” his spokesman, Bryan Griffin, said in an email on Feb. 3.
Griffin had said on Dec. 27 that the Department of Business and Professional Regulation was investigating the show. The department was aware, he said, of multiple complaints about a performance of the show in Fort Lauderdale on Dec. 26.
By contrast, Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater clearly stated for a Dec. 29 performance of the show that attendance was restricted to those 18 or older, and proof of age would be required.
Independent journalist Tayler Hanson, who attended one of the shows, told The Epoch Times in December he is glad someone is doing something.
“I’m thankful to see someone taking action regarding the sexually explicit ‘all-ages’ Drag Queen Christmas Tour that I reported on earlier this month,” Hansen told The Epoch Times.
“Simulated sodomy, exposed fake breasts, and sexually explicit language has no place around children. There is no such thing as a ‘family-friendly’ or ‘all-ages’ drag show. Florida has once again continued to lead the way when it comes to protecting children.”
“Simulated sodomy, exposed fake breasts, and sexually explicit language has no place around children. There is no such thing as a ‘family-friendly’ or ‘all-ages’ drag show. Florida has once again continued to lead the way when it comes to protecting children.”
Thank you Governor Ron Desantis for standing up for our children!
Mishandled Woke mind indoctrination is to American education, what mishandled Covid was to the body of the American Health. Those with strong enough moral upbring will allow their healthy to fight off and deplete the disease with their moral integrity and workable solutions, but the morally crippled will just get sicker and get their lives more permanently destroyed in crippling government dependency. You don’t lock infected people down in closed classrooms, the equivalent of Cuomo run New York nursing homes to reside in large COVID colonies for spreading of more infections. Open Air discussions and investigations of failed results will be the best cure to end this disease, like germs killed in the open sunlight that like truth is designed to cleanse and cripple bacteria of trump deranged toothless democrats, the truthless cavities of government corruption whose license to sell government should have been revoked year ago.
ALL Red states need to do the SAME< to any bar or nightclub that hosts one of these drag hours, for KIDS! KIDS SHOULDN'T be in the bloody bar in the first place, LET ALONE FOR drag hour.
“Orlando Philharmonic Plaza Foundation” ,,,Just another corrupt Secular entertainment production, where their bearded fat ladies get to sing last, dressed of course in the least that look more like overweigh Bearded Pavorotti’s.., designed to destroy the innocence of the our American children, first in mind,,,to set up later, to be molested and destroyed in body,,, disguised as innocuous humorous silly symphony’s, but in reality more dangerous to our kids than a Wagnerian opera was to distortion of Hitler’s evil National SOCIALIST brain. Their re-scripted “ O sole a Mio’s ” get morphed into “ O Sodomy Ya”. Put their garbage in,,,become the garbage worth taking out,,to the curb for trash collection. Their MINOR infractions become Major whole divisions of adult insanity if left unattended in their “Rosemary’s baby” cultured cradles of social soul destruction that resembles more an unattended Wuhan Chinese petri dish of COVID moldy slop, that grow kids, not into adults, but adulterers, when left to arrive to maturity.
Time to end the Sodomites grooming of innocents for their perverse pleasure. Just 20 years ago this perversity would have landed all the adults involved in prison. Time to bring our nation back to our Judeo-Christian Roots and clean the Sodomites out of our schools, politics and media. Also if you regularly attend Church or Temple and the Leadership is taking a Sharpie to the Bible or Torah and blacking out the laws against Sodomy find a new place of worship that follows the Bible and the Torah.
AND see the parent(s) done for child abuse…