Florida Investigates Alleged ‘Sexually Explicit Performance Marketed To Children’: ‘A Crime In Florida’

The state of Florida announced that it has launched an investigation over complaints that were made about an alleged sexually explicit performance that was marketed toward children earlier this month.

The popular conservative Twitter account Libs of TikTok tweeted on December 21: “The same group who put on an extremely graphic ‘family-friendly’ drag show which featured simulated sex acts, exposed buttholes, and oversized fake exposed breasts is performing this show in Florida on Monday.”

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) responded to the event in a statement it released Tuesday afternoon.

“The Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) is aware of multiple complaints about a sexually explicit performance marketed to children held in Fort Lauderdale on December 26th,” the statement said. “The Department is actively investigating this matter, including video footage and photographs from the event. DPBR will, like in other cases, take action.”

“Exposing children to sexually explicit activity is a crime in Florida, and such action violates the Department’s licensing standards for operating a business and holding a liquor license,” the statement continued. “The Department will share any collected evidence with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) for potential criminal liability.”

The department said that it launches these types of investigations based on tips that it receives from the public.

The same group who put on an extremely graphic “family-friendly” drag show which featured simulated sex acts, exposed buttholes, and oversized fake exposed breasts is performing this show in Florida on Monday. @GovRonDeSantis https://t.co/V8zJKr6pot pic.twitter.com/aL8ueh6QRv

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 22, 2022

The founder of Libs of TikTok, Chaya Raichik, revealed her face publicly for the first time during a recent interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Raichik said that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis offered her support after she was doxxed following a hit piece from The Washington Post.

When asked by Carlson if anyone reached out to her after the hit piece, she responded, “I will say this, when I was doxxed, someone from Ron DeSantis’ team called me.”

“She said, ‘The governor wanted me to give you a message. He said if you don’t feel safe — or — you or your family, if you need a place to go, to hide, to stay, you can come to the governor’s mansion,” Raichik said. “She said, ‘We have a guest house for you, and you can come and stay as long as you need.’”

Wow. After @libsoftiktok wax doxxed and threatened, @GovRonDeSantis reached out and told her she could stay at the Governor’s Mansion. pic.twitter.com/PVJkqCt12H

— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) December 27, 2022

Raichik then responded to political commentator David Reaboi on Twitter after Reaboi posted the clip and wrote: “Goes without saying that this wasn’t something he did for the cameras or to generate a news story—and it surely would’ve been one at the time. Had Chaya not mentioned it, nobody would’ve known about this.”

“Yup exactly,” she responded. “Genuinely a kind incredible person.”

Yup exactly. Genuinely a kind incredible person.

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 27, 2022

Colleges Ban Oil And Gas Companies From Recruiting Students

Multiple universities in the United Kingdom have prohibited fossil fuel companies from recruiting students on campus in the name of battling climate change.

Fossil Free Careers, a project led by the activist group People and Planet, demands that postsecondary institutions prevent companies in the “oil, gas, and mining industries” from attending careers fairs or listing their vacancies on career websites. Birkbeck, University of London, is named by the group as its “first campaign win.”

The school’s policy formerly said that the career services department will “not hold relationships of any kind with oil, gas or mining companies as part of our commitment to increased sustainability and addressing the climate crisis,” as listed on web archives and the People and Planet website. As detailed by Birkbeck student Bryn Richards, who questioned a number of university officials about the move, the school later removed the reference to “oil, gas or mining” and instead committed to turning down relationships “with any companies that have not demonstrated a commitment to positive environmental and ethical business models.”

Richards noted that the new policy is conceivably worse than the former prohibition, as the latter provides more room for interpretation. “This is part of our commitment to increased sustainability and addressing the climate crisis,” the current rule continues. “This includes, but is not limited to, attendance at careers events and other recruitment opportunities, posting role vacancies, sponsorships, and advertising.”

University of the Arts London, the University of Bedfordshire in England, and Wrexham Glyndwr University in Wales have since adopted fossil-free recruitment policies, according to a report from the Guardian. The policies come as energy prices in the United Kingdom soar to record levels amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine; former British Prime Minister Liz Truss, who was replaced by fellow lawmaker Rishi Sunak two months ago, had pushed for higher fossil fuel production and established the goal of becoming a net exporter of energy by 2040.

Some have attributed the outsized energy prices across Europe to overreliance on renewable energy sources. The European Union, from which the United Kingdom has recently exited, abides by the official goal of becoming “a climate-neutral society” by 2050 in accordance with the European Green Deal and the Paris Climate Agreement.

Similar activist groups in the United States have encouraged universities to pull investments from the fossil fuel industry and otherwise advocate for a decrease in carbon emissions. Divest Harvard celebrated last year after Harvard President Lawrence Bacow announced that the university would allow remaining investments in the sector to expire while refusing to adopt new ones. “For too long, Harvard has stood on the wrong side of history, lending legitimacy to the companies driving global warming and environmental injustice,” the group said.

Divestment moves occur as part of a broader trend among some institutional investors toward the environmental, social, and governance movement, also known as ESG, which has suffered over the past year as the energy sector witnesses outsized profitability. Harvard Management Company, which manages the elite university’s endowment, admitted last month that a recent $2.3 billion loss on its $51 billion endowment was attributable to fossil fuel divestment efforts, though the organization remains “proud to be deeply engaged in the issue of sustainability.”