From today's Eleventh Circuit decision in Naples Pride, Inc. v. City of Naples by Judges Robert Luck and Andrew Brasher:
In 2023 and 2024, Naples Pride, Inc. applied for a permit under the City of Naples, Florida's special event ordinance to hold a drag performance at a city park. Both years, the city granted a permit but with two conditions: first, that the drag performance had to be held indoors, and second, that attendance had to be limited to adults eighteen years or older. The performance went on with those two conditions.
The same thing happened in 2025. Naples Pride applied for a permit to hold the same drag performance at the same city park on June 7, and, in January 2025, the city granted the same permit with the same two conditions. The only difference this time was that, in Ap