LGBT activists decided to stage an unusual protest in front of the Texas governor’s mansion where Governor Greg Abbott resides in order to show him how upset they are about the Texas bathroom bill. That bill, Senate Bill 6, would permit private businesses to enforce their own bathroom policies but require public schools, state and local government buildings to have people use the facility that corresponds to their biological sex.
The protest, called the “Queer Dance Freakout,” looked like this:
It might have behooved the protesters to know this:
The event’s Facebook page read:
Everything is freakier in Tex@$$. Come move your body outside the governor’s mansion to show we are not going to take the transphobic and homophobic laws Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick and their adminstration have got in the pipeline.
We say NO to anti-transgender bathroom bills. We say NO to marriage equality limitations. We say NO to old men saying what we can and cannot do.
We say YES to shaking our asses. We say YES to the freedoms of the body. We say YES to sweating in the streets while we ride the beat.
We celebrate a queer identity that is INTERSECTIONAL AND TRANS INCLUSIVE
Move over, Fred Astaire.