Bruce Springsteen & The E Street band have cancelled their concert tomorrow in Greensboro, North Carolina to show support for people protesting the state’s recently passed “bathroom law”, or HB2 law, which requires transgender people to only use bathrooms that correspond with their sex at birth.
Springsteen released a statement on his twitter account, saying the law also “attacks the rights of LGBT citizens to sue when their human rights are violated in the workplace”.
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s April 10th show is canceled. Tickets will be refunded at point of purchase. https://t.co/YahXTKffvV
— Bruce Springsteen (@springsteen) April 8, 2016
He says “no other group of North Carolinians faces such a burden”.
Springsteen says “some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry is one of them”.
He says cancelling his concert was the strongest means he has for raising his voice in opposition to those who continue to push backwards instead of forwards.
Voice your opposition of discriminatory legislation like #HB2 by contacting your elected officials. Find them here: https://t.co/OBpJsZpXRi
— Bruce Springsteen (@springsteen) April 8, 2016
You can read his entire statement here:bit.ly/1qehKZF
