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Originally Posted by Klondike
Before today, I didn't know about the nudity ban in San Francisco that takes place on February 1st, 2013. Maybe this has been talked about here at OCC - I don't know.
Anyway, some details would be nice to include in this thread. If anyone lives down there, maybe they have been following whats going on, and can give us (me) more insight.
This is pretty big news. I think earlier in this thread I talked about Ashland OR and maybe Brattleboro, VT and how each town enacted nudity bans in response to public nakedness that some felt was getting out of control. Well, it looks to be the same situation in SF. Complaints lodged by citizens will cause officials to act if they are truly being responsible public servants. Its the community standard aspect of what is considered "indecent exposure". Decent exposure can quickly become indecent exposure if enough people complain. So, that seems to have been what happened in SF. Where does one point fingers? Well, from what I have read it was persistent nudity in the Castro District, a problem which was escalating in recent years. So no, its not Bay to Breakers or Folsom Street Fair or other official events. Its random acts of nakedness, and it appears to be primarily gays that were responsible. I do wish gays would take more responsibility for things that they do sometimes - more than one nude beach in the past has been shut down due to gay activity.
Anyway, you will still be able to get naked at Bay to Breakers and other events. But down the drain is SF reputation as being a place where you can legally just let it all hang out any time and any place in the city. I don't know how this law will effect the naked protesters activities (Gypsy Taub, etc). But one might think that they are being somewhat targeted by this law. I mean, any political activism in favor of nudity in the city is going to run counter to what the new ordinance is all about.
Klondike
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K et al.: Yes, it's been at least alluded to, largely in the "Naked Protesters" thread at the E&V Forum; the latest action is today at noon (see lustfulgoddess.com/post/January8-protest-flier.jpg at Gypsy T's blog mynakedtruth.tv/ -- and one hopes it's not an ominous sign that the picture is
not from previous protests but from the Sydney Tunick shoot!). Anyway, the most likely effect is to hamper just-hangin'-out events rather than protests (which often get exempted to avoid countersuits alleging abridgement of freedom of expression) or established fairs/festivals (e.g. FSF, B2B); also, at least one item I read suggested it wouldn't affect nudity at beaches, especially those under the aegis of the feds, such as at Baker Beach's further reaches...