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Legendary pop icon Madonna announced she has added eight additional tour dates, including a stop in Nashville.

During her show in the Music City, the Material Girl singer, 64, plans to 'celebrate' the LGBTQ+ community, after Tennessee became the first state to ban drag shows in public spaces on Thursday, according to Time.

'The oppression of the LGBTQ+ is not only unacceptable and inhumane; it's creating an unsafe environment; making America a dangerous place for our most vulnerable citizens, especially trans women of color,' she wrote on Instagram. 

She continued: 'Also, these so-called laws to protect. our children are unfounded and pathetic. Anyone with half a brain knows not to f**k with a drag queen.'

The mother-of-six then gushed that Bob the Drag Queen, who won the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race, would see fans soon to 'celebrate the beauty that is the Queer community!' 

Her announcement comes after Tennessee criminalized drag performances on public property, as well as in any private space where children are present. 

The laws also requires drag performances to be more than 1,000 feet from schools, public parks or places of worship, according to NPR.

Tennessee's laws criminalizing drag come amid a wave of anti-LGBTQ bills in conservative states across the US.

According to NBC News, lawmakers in 16 states are considering legislation to ban drag performances, while Tennessee became the first to enact such laws.

The Tennessee law technically bans 'adult cabaret entertainment' and does not explicitly use the term 'drag,' but it does mention male or female impersonators, and

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