Father John Misty has announced that he’ll be donating the proceeds from his North Carolina show next week to Time Out Youth, a local LGBT support center, in protest of the recently passed discriminatory HB2 legislation. Josh Tillman joins a group of artists that include Against Me!, Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper, and more who have either chosen to cancel their scheduled shows or donate money to charities because of the law.

In a statement to Rolling Stone, Tillman called the bill “bullshit,” but explained that he will still play the show anyway:

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.

Father John Misty is scheduled to perform in North Carolina on 4/27 at the Fillmore Charlotte.