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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jamie Stengle

Student group sues after Texas university cancels drag show

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A student group at a university in the Texas Panhandle said in a federal lawsuit filed Friday that the school's president violated their constitutional right to free speech when he canceled their planned drag show.

Walter Wendler, president of West Texas A&M University in Canyon, located just south of Amarillo, said this week in a letter and column laden with religious references that he believed drag shows discriminated against women and were "derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny, no matter the stated intent.”

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