A new survey conducted by an NGO called More In Common revealed that the majority of British respondents support the freedom for drag shows – performances featuring artists impersonating men or women – to be staged.

The performances of these artists consist of song, dance and comedy, drawing on the burlesque genre.

In recent years, drag shows and drag performers have become increasingly visible in mainstream culture with several documentaries and TV reality shows dedicated to the subject, the most prominent being “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

This survey comes on the heels of the US state of Tennessee enacting a law banning drag shows in public places or in any place where they could be seen by minors. A decision that has met with impassioned reactions within the drag queen community.

The survey, reported by The Pink News, gathered responses from 2,018 British adults of all political persuasions and all ages (18 to over 75).

To the question “Several states in the United States have proposed legislation to ban public ‘drag shows,’ a form of entertainment which involves performers impersonating men or women. Would you support such a ban in the United Kingdom?”, 62% of respondents said they did not want such a ban in their country while 20% said they would support a ban and 19% said they didn’t know.

Looking at the political profile of respondents, the NGO More in Common found that supporters of the Green Party (the UK’s main green political party) and the Scottish National Party were the most likely to reject a ban (at 74%), compared to 60% for Britons who supported the Conservative Party.

When looking at respondents by age, the results show that 70% of 41-55 year olds are against the ban, (and almost the same percentage 56-74 year olds), compared to 52% of 25-40 year olds and about 56% of 18-24 year olds.