Bryan Adams cancels Mississippi show in protest of "anti-LGBT ‘Religious Liberty’ bill"

Writing on his website, Adams explains:

Mississippi has passed anti-LGBT ‘Religious Liberty’ bill 1523. I find it incomprehensible that LGBT citizens are being discriminated against in the state of Mississippi. I cannot in good conscience perform in a State where certain people are being denied their civil rights due to their sexual orientation. Therefore I’m cancelling my 14 April show at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum. Using my voice I stand in solidarity with all my LGBT friends to repeal this extremely discriminatory bill. Hopefully Mississippi will right itself and I can come back and perform for all of my many fans. I look forward to that day.
#stop1523

Adams' decision follows a similar boycott by Bruce Springsteen last week: The Boss opted to pull a show in North Carolina in response to the state's newly inked law HB2.

Springsteen notes in a statement explaining his show's cancellation that the law is "known officially as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act". What that actually equates to is much more sinister: "[it] dictates which bathrooms transgender people are permitted to use. Just as important, the law also attacks the rights of LGBT citizens to sue when their human rights are violated in the workplace."

Apparently, Springsteen's actions were "bully tactics", according to Republican state representative Mark Walker.