Earlier this week, organizers of Glasgow’s Free Pride decided to ban drag performers from the festivities, feeling that they “would make some of those who were transgender or questioning their gender uncomfortable.”

Their stance upset a lot of people, who felt the organization’s motivations were short-sighted, misguided, and exclusionary. Perhaps that’s why organizers have done an abrupt about-face.

Drag queens will, in fact, be allowed to perform at the event.

Yesterday, they posted the following letter: