Father John Misty Donating North Carolina Show Proceeds to LGBT Charity to Fight "Bullshit" Law

Father John Misty is set to perform in Charlotte, North Carolina one week from today at the Fillmore Charlotte. Speaking with Rolling Stone today, Josh Tillman confirmed that the concert will go on as planned, and he will donate all proceeds from the show to Time Out Youth, an LGBT nonprofit based in Charlotte. In a statement to Rolling Stone, Tillman lambasted House Bill 2—the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act—which bars transgender people from using bathrooms and locker rooms that do not match the “biological sex” listed on their birth certificate. “The bill is obviously bullshit,” he told Rolling Stone. Find his full statement below.

Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr and Pearl Jam have cancelled concerts in response to the legislation. Tillman joins the likes of Against Me!, Cyndi Lauper, Duran Duran, and Mumford & Sons in performing as scheduled in order to raise awareness about the law and donate to local LGBTQ rights organizations.

Read “Op-Ed: North Carolina’s Transgender Fight Needs Musicians to Show Up.”

Tillman’s statement:

The bill is obviously bullshit. [If] I thought playing a show for my fans in North Carolina was in any way some tacit endorsement of this fearful, petty, ignorant nonsense, I wouldn’t. I also play 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. These are obviously all huge systemic problems. But for me, this show represents a start in investing in the plight of other Americans.

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