Big Freedia show canceled in Mississippi for potential 'gyrating'
Source: NOLA.com
Big Freedia's brand of gyrating might be too much for the home state of Elvis. At least that's what the owner of The Dollar Box Showroom, a performance venue in Hattiesberg Miss., recently learned when he scheduled the New Orleans bounce star to perform on Friday (Feb. 12).
Club owner Ben Shemper said that roughly two weeks ago, he got a phone call from a State Alcohol Beverage Control officer who said that based on YouTube videos of past Big Freedia performances, he felt the show would be in violation of Mississippi codes.
"The word gyrating was in there," Shemper said. "He made it sound like it was some kind of strip show or whatever."
Shemper said that because maintaining a respectful relationship with Alcohol Beverage Control is essential to his business, he canceled the show, informing Freedia fans with a post on the venue's Facebook page that read:
"For those of you that haven't heard the Big Freedia show was cancelled. ... Don't kill the messenger, the ABC warned us that they would 'show up in full force and fine us' if we allowed the show."
Read more: http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2016/02/big_freedia_show_cancelled_in.html#incart_m-rpt-2
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I wonder what 'code' is being violated? 
--imm
"Big Freedia?"
Discretion being the better part of valor, I'm not posting a link, myself. 
"I believe I'll pass on that." 
rocktivity
I guess you can define it as gyrating up and down as opposed to from side to side. Maybe Freedia could do the show if he offered to bring along only his male dancers and leave the female ones, uh, behind...
rocktivity
The difference is, Big Freedia is a man. He is not trans, he performs in drag. In NOLA, this is called "sissy bounce". In Hattiesburg, apparently, this is called "scary". 
But it'd all be worth it if the two of them got together and did a duet!!!
