Georgia mayor censors ‘Rocky Horror Show’

The mayor of Carrollton, Georgia banned the Rocky Horror Show from the city’s theater center. The local theater group who wanted to stage the musical has decided not to challenge the ban.

The Rocky Horror Show centers on a cross-dressing scientist and his Transylvania friends but has not been considered obscene, the only legal grounds for censorship. -db

From a commentary for the First Amendment Center, September 21, 2011, by Ken Paulson.

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