Know Your Rights!

Join the San Antonio LGBT Chamber of Commerce and the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) for a Know Your Rights session to learn more about SB 12 "The Drag Ban Bill that goes into effect on September 1.  EVERYONE is welcome to attend. You do not have to be a member of the Chamber

What the session will cover...

• The history of the law
• Review the version of the law that finally passed, including what performances are prohibited
• Penalties for performers and businesses that host including three separate enforcement mechanisms in the law
• Learn more about what is being done to challenge this dangerous law including the recently filed lawsuit against the State of Texas with the Chamber and others as plaintiff's
• What to do if you get charged including ways to protect yourself

There will be a Q&A portion of the program as well to provide attendees the opportunity to get questions answered.

Speaker: 
Dustin Rynders, Director, Criminal Injustice Program at the Texas Civils Rights Project.

Dustin Rynders is the Director of the Criminal Injustice Program at the Texas Civil Rights Project. Dustin directs the team’s litigation and state and local policy advocacy. He is a Texas native who has worked in public interest civil rights law with an intersectional focus on disability, race and LGBTQ+ identity for the past seventeen years. He is also a former President of the Stonewall Law Association of Greater Houston. Dustin received a B.A. from Pepperdine University, cum laude (2001), a M.P.Aff. from the L.B.J. School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas (2003), and a J.D. from The University of Houston Law Center (2006). Dustin and his husband, Mike, live in Houston with their son.