Photo of Father John Misty performing on 'Late Night with Seth Meyers,' by Lloyd Bishop
Josh Tillman (aka Father John Misty) is joining the likes of Mumford & Sons, Cyndi Lauper, Duran Duran and donating all the proceeds from his upcoming North Carolina show to LGBTQ organizations.
In an interview with Rolling Stone published Wednesday, Tillman revealed his show in Charlotte will indeed go on as planned, but he's giving the ticket sales to local LGBT charity Time Out Youth as a sign of protest against North Carolina's Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, aka House Bill 2, which restricts transgender individuals to using only public bathrooms matching their gender at birth.
"The bill is obviously bullshit," Tillman said, explaining that he thought playing the show was an "endorsement of this fearful, petty, ignorant nonsense, I wouldn't." He further clarified his decision by noting he also plays in states "that have oppressive drug laws designed to imprison the disenfranchised, rig elections, deny women their dignity, defend the reckless and insane practice of selling guns and sustain a permanent underclass with hypocritical, opportunist readings of archaic documents written by land-stealers who never intended political privilege to extend past their buddies."
Father John Misty's sold-out show at the Fillmore Charlotte is set for April 27.