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Naked Activists and The State Of The Naturist Movement (Guest Blog Post By Gymnos) Nudist Movement And Nude Activists: A state of the state of our nudist movement, the beginnings of a map for raising consciousness and support for the rights of nudists everywhere. liberty, http://www.mvw-home.de/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michigan-Nudists-And-A-Girls-First-Nudist-Resort-Visit-s , nudity !!! This can be the slogan of a possible movement calling out from a period when the bond of men in brotherhood was understood as the basis for "la communauty." Yet, in this moment, http://embreveaqui.indisciplinar.com/index.php?title=so-1-The-lack-of-material-evidence-and-the-conflicting-historical-sources-make-such-k is presented with a spin on the revolution that it calls to mind. This time let it be a nudist revolution lead by nude activists. Supporters of the 'Freedom to be yourself' movement, demonstration for the right to appear naked in public. A few years back this was one of the faux slogans marched down 5th Avenue in NYC by the men of Males Au Natural (MAN) for the yearly Pride festivities back in 2007. Yet those men were not naked: their crotches and ends were strategically covered by smaller signs with shorter mottos like "BARE RIGHTS NOW" & "this crack do not kill." But why use faux slogans? Why are they considered a performance costume any more than the usual call to action? In fact the line separating the operation in the slogan may simply be semantic, yet the guys of GUY are barely a politically energized lot. Girls march topless down the roads of Venice Beach, CA in demonstration for topfree equality Since the girls of NYS won their right to be topless in those spots guys readily took for granted (1992), & since the TNT!MEN (Totally Naked Toronto Men Enjoying Nudity) won the right to march in their Pride parties with only shoes & hats the courts just couldn't declare that any injury would be done or it was just enough to deem them 'not naked' depending on whom you ask (2000), since the first segregation of shores along lines of textile options (how far back do we have to go?) Since the rise of modern society, public naturism has been the centre of its own civil rights tug of war. In America, exercising our right to be free of covering is a drama-ridden morality play of the first order. In Europe, it's more a matter of social custom & propriety. In areas of Asia, it's a practice deemed entirely illegal & badly penalized. Yet, with the entrance of 2012, we view the rise of the [virtual] naturist community and a conviction to win the fights for more body liberty. These are cause for a palpable urgency. Participant in the World Naked Bike Ride The urgency itself may be a question of simple perception - seeing new societal organizations and internet communities propagate, elderly groups have responded in some instances as if endangered for his or her very existence. Likewise, the rise of this online community, fueled by the speed of the latest social connectivity presents new fault lines for the encroaching of fetish life on a more naturist aesthetic. Yet to underscore these new developments, the online communities are not remaining virtual. Nudists involved are attending organized house parties and events with a brand new vitality. Yet the road ahead is anything but assured as advancement towards more liberty. Thousands of nude volunteers model for US photographer Spencer Tunick at Mexico City's Zocalo square The infighting among naturist groups is but one symptom of a larger stress about the dwindling of our adherents. Recent upgrades to nudity laws in my home city of New York almost included language that would have outlawed social nudism of any kind. While 2011 saw serious soul searching in Vermont and San Francisco as anti-nudity laws were debated and virtually enacted. The disparate local responses to the climbing quantity of World Naked Bike Rides vary from open acceptance (in cities like Philly and Chicago) to the overwhelming police presence in other localities (NYC stands out). Despite the landmark case in NYC where Spencer Tunick established a state constitutional right to get together nude people in public places predicated on our freedom of expression, artists making bare artwork is public must anticipate harassment and arrest. And with economics as they are, community based naturist clubs are under extreme pressures to keep their membership amounts secure, while the succession of these family owned businesses is hardly guaranteed. The fact of the matter stays that exercising our rights as nudists is much less simple as the innocence of adolescent skinny dipping. The political consequences - whether it is a issue of our neighbors knowing that we're amusing tonight, or the intricacies of local law & it is potential enforcement - make being a naturist no small personal statement. To move forward, we need much stronger legal advocates at both local and national levels. We also need data and lots of it. Currently wedon't really know what over arching attitudes exist either within the nudist communities or beyond them. An organization of AIDS activists hold a naked protest outside of New York's Madison Square Garden August 26, 2004. The protesters blocked 8th Avenue in midtown Manhattan outside Madison Square Garden, site of the Republican National Convention.