Hamburger Mary’s attorney fights ‘coast to coast’ for drag performers’ freedom
Just four days after a federal judge ruled a Tennessee law restricting drag shows was unconstitutional, attorney Brice Timmons was in an Orlando courtroom describing how a new Florida law was causing Hamburger Mary’s to censure its drag shows.
Timmons, a civil rights attorney with Memphis-based Donati Law, represented the Friends of George’s theater company in the Tennessee case, fighting a law that prohibited “adult cabaret” from taking place on public property or where children could see it.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker, appointed by President Donald Trump, ruled June 2 the Tennessee law was an unconstitutional restriction on freedom of speech.
Timmons has brought his experience from the headline-making Tennessee case to the help of the Orlando Hamburger Mary’s, and he is also getting involved in fighting other drag show restrictions in Montana and Texas.
“If I’ve got to go coast-to-coast fighting these types of laws I will,” Timmons told the Orlando Sentinel this week. “What I really hope we’re doing here is building a road map… for other lawyers around the country to join in.”