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Lisa J. Huriash

Florida agency sees drag show, with children in attendance, as a nuisance. ‘This is wrong,’ DeSantis says

The state of Florida has gone after a Miami-area restaurant after videos surfaced of its drag queen shows in front of kids, saying the sexy shows violated the sensibilities of children.

After videos appeared of drag queens wearing pasties and dollar bills flowing from a bikini bottom in the presence of children in the audience, the state is going after the restaurant’s liquor license to shut it down, the governor said Wednesday. He said children didn’t need “some agenda shoved down their throats all the time.”

The complaint filed by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation on Tuesday asks for a final order that the R House restaurant is a nuisance and has its liquor license revoked.

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