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Hayley Kiyoko performs with drag queens in Nashville — defies cop’s warning

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Hayley Kiyoko has claimed that an “undercover cop” arrived at her Nashville tour stop to warn her about legal consequences that could arise if she were to have drag queens join her onstage.

Kiyoko, 32, who identifies as lesbian, performed Monday at Marathon Music Works in Music City as part of “The Panorama Tour.”In an Instagram post on Tuesday, the “Girls Like Girls” singerclaimed she invited local drag queens LiberTea and Ivy St James to perform with her — but “local law enforcement” advised the performer not to, due to Tennessee’s proposed legislation that would ban drag performers in the presence of minors.

However, spokespersons for the Metropolitan Police Department told The Post on Thursday that they have “no reason at all to believe she spoke with anyone from our police department.”The MNPD additionally told The Post that the department “wouldn’t do this to begin with” and noted that a federal judge temporarily blocked Tennessee’s anti-drag lawbefore it even went into effect back in March.The Post also contacted representatives for Kiyoko for comment. “At soundcheck the day of, I was advised by local law enforcement that having a drag performance at my all ages show could result in legal action,” Kiyoko wrote in her caption about the alleged incident. “This is f–ked up,” she said in an accompanying video, wiping tears away from her face. “This is so f–ked.”Earlier this year, the Tennessee legislature passed a law regarding “adult cabaret performance” — which now includes “male or female impersonators” — that states that “it is an offense for a person to engage in an adult cabaret performance … In a location where the adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a person who is not an adult.”A first offense would.

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