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Freedom at the Pier
“I just want to tell you,” the man in the dress shirt and necktie said, “I love what you’re doing. You’re bringing back the 1980s. Back then, everyone here was completely naked.” The smile on his face...
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Public, Private
We recently had the good fortune to reach nearly 2 million viewers with the brief video documentary that 60-Second Docs created about us. Maybe by the time you read this it’ll be over 2 million, who...
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Thanksgiving Comes Early
A week ago, we were told that the mini-documentary about us that was filmed back in June by the folks at 60-Second Docs wouldn’t actually air until November — the day after Thanksgiving, to be...
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We (Finally) Go to Comic Con
Are we better known for reading traditional words-on-paper books than comic books and graphic novels? Probably. But since our group’s founding we’ve always had some comics in the mix too, and our...
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Thanksgiving
Back in June, we visited Madison Square Park together with a videographer from an outfit called 60-Second Docs, an organization that makes minute-long documentaries about people and groups they find...
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Headed For a Fall
If every fall could be like this one has been so far, we’d have nothing to complain about. Well, that’s not exactly true: the threat of nuclear war, racism back at home, a real son of a bitch in the...
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Last Days and First Times
The last days of summer are always bittersweet for us — we wait through months of fall and winter and early spring for it finally to be warm enough for us to go outdoors without coats on, never mind...
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The Video You Never Saw
Back in May — four months ago now — one of our favorite websites, Jezebel, came to an event we held in Central Park, to film a video piece about our group and the 25th anniversary of the legal decision...
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Prince of Denmark, Naked in New York
Last summer, we produced an all-female, all-nude staging of Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest, outdoors in Central Park, and it was a huge success: hundreds of people came to see the play in...
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Living the Dream
For the fourth year in a row, we celebrated the end of summer (which, okay, technically hasn’t come yet…but it sure feels like it has) by visiting the rooftop pool at the Dream Hotel. They set aside...
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Dancing on the Beach
Sorting through all our photos from the summer, remembering the good times we’ve had, we came across a brief video we shot when we were on Riis Beach but somehow forgot to include when we posted our...
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Our Day in the Sun, Part III
The third part of our day in the sun — exploring lower Manhattan with Chelsea Covington, blogger supreme and hero of the Maryland equal-rights case — didn’t actually involve much sun. Or it did at the...
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Our Day in the Sun, Part II
In our last post, we described how we met up with Chelsea Covington for an afternoon and evening of topless fun, first in a park downtown, then strolling the streets and waterfront of lower Manhattan,...
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Our Day in the Sun, Part I
It is of course legal for women to go topless in New York anywhere a man can, and it has been for the past 25 years. That’s true in any of the city’s parks, where men habitually relax topless in the...
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Equal Rights for All Means Equal Rights for All
The law in New York says that women have the same right as men do to go bare-chested in public places. Not some women — all women. Accordingly, we invite all women to join us at our events, regardless...
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The Riis Riviera
Followers of this blog will have noticed that we don’t go to the beach a lot. That’s not because we don’t like beaches — we love them. But New York City makes it easy to go to the park and hard to go...
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On Sharing Orgasm
When we sunbathe topless in the park or take our shirts off in some other public place on a 90-degree day, it has nothing to do with sex and everything to do with comfort and equality. We like wearing...
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Nothing to Get Hung About
Back in the day, when John Lennon lived in New York, the story goes that he’d come to a little lawn in Central Park, near the Dakota Apartments where he lived, to walk with his wife or listen to music...
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Our Secret Meadow
Most places in New York look like they’re in New York. Even most places in Central Park do. You don’t have to look far to see tall buildings, or crowds of people, or to hear traffic rushing by on the...
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Humanity
For the fourth time in four years, a group of more than 100 artists and models congregated in a public place in New York City — this time, it was in Washington Square Park — to demonstrate that art can...
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