Naked Protesters & Nude Activists

Here are a couple of nice pictures from the struggle for public nudity in Australia, courtesy of Freedom International. This first one comes from Melbourne in January of 2002, showing five men (“Very Impressive”, Stuart Kingsford, Rollan McCleary, Tony Pitman and Keith Stodden) going for a nude swim at Port Melbourne’s Sandridge Beach. “The men’s act of civil disobedience served as a protest against the fact that public nudity is a crime in the state of Victoria and they called on the Victorian government to reform this outdated and unjust law.”

The next one shows Tony Pitman in Melbourne’s Fitzroy Gardens, staging “a one-man nude protest for the legalisation of public nudity” in February 2001.

Here’s another picture of this guy:

From a protest in London on May Day, 2001.

Here’s a news story and photo mailed in by Bob (thanks, Bob!) of a naked protester at a recent pro-choice rally in Washington, D.C.:

Captioned: “A semi-topless Iris Dickerson holds a sign as hundreds of thousands of protesters rallied on the National Mall April 25, 2004 to show support for abortion rights and opposition to Bush administration policies on women’s reproductive health issues.”