LGBTQ Students Seek SCOTUS Relief Over Campus Drag Show Cancellation

CANYON, TX — (03-07-24) — We can now confirm that a West Texas A&M University LGBTQ+ student group has asked the U.S. Supreme Court for emergency relief, saying their freedom of speech is being violated after the public university’s president canceled a planned campus drag show.

Unfortunately the appeal has gone directly to anti-LGBTQ Justice Samuel Alito, who has a record for being against LGBTQ+ Civil Rights and who is willing to repeal same-sex marriage. can decide the matter on his own or ask his colleagues to weigh in.

Spectrum WT student group and student leaders are seeking an injunction by SCOTUS so that the campus drag show can go forward while the lawsuit continues in the lower courts.

“This act of censorship is predicated on nothing more than the president’s personal opinion that a planned performance on campus ‘demeans,’ ‘mock[s],’ and ‘denigrates’ women,” the appeal filed by the Spectrum WT student group on Wednesday states.  Without an immediate injunction, a viewpoint-driven prior restraint that has hung over West Texas A&M for nearly a year will continue to irreparably injure college students’ free expression.”

The initial lawsuit was filed in March of 2023 by the legal advocacy group, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).

The lawsuit alleged that university President Walter Wendler unilaterally canceled a student group’s charity drag show fundraising for LGBTQ+ suicide prevention because of his personal religious beliefs and because drag shows are “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny.”

Article by: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer

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