Bruce Springsteen cancels North Carolina concert over anti-LGBTQ law

by Jesse Locke

April 11, 2016

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A Republican congressman called Springsteen a 'bully' for cancelling the show.

Bruce Springsteen sided with LGBTQ activists and pissed off parents who had booked babysitters by cancelling his Saturday, April 10th tour date in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Boss’s ban is due to the state’s newly passed House Bill 2, which legally requires people to use the bathrooms of the biological sex reflected on their birth certificates.

Springsteen issued a widely shared statement on his website, explaining that “some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry – which is happening as I write – is one of them.” Read it in full below:

North Carolina’s attorney general has called House Bill 2 a “national embarrassment.” However, the equally loud chorus of Springsteen detractors includes Republican congressman Mark Walker, who shared the following schoolyard analogy with the Hollywood Reporter:

“It’s disappointing he’s not following through on his commitments… Bruce is known to be on the radical left and he’s got every right to be so, but I consider this a bully tactic. It’s like when a kid gets upset and says he’s going to take his ball and go home.”

Walker continued his fear-mongering, claiming that the bill “doesn’t target the LGBTQ community; it targets imposters. It’s a little crazy to think sexual predators wouldn’t be devious enough to pull something off if they were free to go into any bathroom they want.”

Springsteen’s North Carolina ban follows similar moves from Disney, Marvel, and AMC, who threatened to pull their productions out of Georgia if the state passed its own faith-based discriminatory law. Thankfully, Georgia’s governor refused to sign the bill and The Walking Dead will continue to march through the Peach state.

Tags: Music, News, Bruce Springsteen, house bill 2, north carolina

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