The arts center that organizes the monthly art walk, which draws 20,000 to downtown Lubbock, said the drag show happened at an off-site location and had no association with it.
The Lubbock LGBTQ + community protests quietly in response to the Lubbock City Council's failure to pass a proclamation that would declare the month of June as Pride Month, on June 27, 2023. This week, the council stripped funding from the city's monthly art walk over a drag show.We’re testing using AI-powered tools to provide an audio version of this story. While this audio recording is machine-generated, the story was written by human journalists.
David Glasheen, the council member who proposed the cut, suggested the money was used to promote drag shows and LGBTQ+ programs marketed as family-friendly. “I don’t think anybody was prepared for this,” Martinez-Garcia told The Texas Tribune. “More people attend First Friday than vote.” Lubbock’s new mayor, Mark McBrayer, agreed with Glasheen, saying the city has no business spending taxpayer money promoting “sexualized performances.”
In a statement, the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, which manages the trail, said it was disappointed and disheartened by the decision. The center said it was not consulted about the funding request or asked about the LGBTQ+ programming by the City Council beforehand.
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