Similar Go Topless Day demonstrations have been happening around the USA, including parades in Los Angeles and New York City.
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A group of about 50 women and men were walking topless in the oceanside Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice, behind a giant, inflatable pink breast that had the phrase “equal topless rights” written on it.
According to Fox News, the march was led by some women carrying a banner, followed by others in a convertible, and coming at the end, a pair of giant, inflatable breasts, making a statement for onlookers who gawked and took photos of the parade participants.
Women around the US plan to go topless as they hit the beach or march in parades in celebration of GoTopless Day, focused on promoting gender equality and women’s rights to bare their breasts in public.
The sight of women liberating themselves enraged one man so much that he “allegedly stalked a bare-chested woman he’d been harassing through the sea of nipples – and punched her in the throat”, the New York Post reported. The AP notes that one marcher carried a sign that said: “My Body Is Not A Crime”. She is Nadine Gary, not Nadine Gray.
If the celebration of Beyoncé’s, Rihanna’s, and Britney Spears’s raw lady power at MTV’s VMAs was a big party for feminists, the parade of topless men and women marching through several cities worldwide earlier Sunday was definitely the pregame event. Gatherings were planned in New Hampshire, Los Angeles and more.
There are only a handful of states in America where it is illegal for women to go topless.
Last year, the Venice neighborhood community council passed by a 12-2 voter a resolution in favor of bringing topless sunbathing back to Venice Beach.
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