A university president canceled a drag show & compared it to blackface. Now students are suing.

West Texas A&M Students protest the cancellation of a campus drag show.
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The president of a Texas university faces a federal lawsuit after he canceled a campus drag show scheduled for March 31.

Last week, West Texas A&M University president Walter Wendler sent a letter to students, faculty, and staff announcing that student LGBTQ+ group Spectrum WT’s upcoming event benefitting the Trevor Project had been canceled. In the letter, Wendler characterized drag as “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny” and compared it to blackface.

On Friday, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Spectrum WT seeking an injunction forcing the university to allow the event on campus, Law and Crime reports. The suit claims that Wendler…

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