Onlookers gawked and took photos as the parade participants went by. Coming up at the end was a pair of giant inflatable breasts.
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As part of a nationwide demonstration from Venice to NY, participants ride in a convertible Sunday through midtown Manhattan in the Go Topless Pride Parade in NY.
“The fact that there are sexist and restrictive laws placed on women all over the nation but not on men – it’s not right”, said B.C. Brown, one of the women marching in Phoenix Sunday.
Nadine Gray, president of GoTopless, said she hoped the events would take away the shock and awe of seeing female breasts.
“In New York City, we are really celebrating our right to be freely topless without getting a ticket or going to jail for it”.
Activists in the movement argue women should be able to go topless in public, just as men can. “In other places, it will be more like a protest because the discrimination is still happening. This is not Saudi Arabia”.
It has been legal to be bare-breasted in NY since 1992.
A few dozen women went topless on Broadway in New York City as events were also planned in New Hampshire, Denver and other cities around the globe.
Women in major cities, including Toronto and NY, bared their breasts Sunday as part of GoTopless Day.
Hundreds of men and women showed up to promote topless equality in Denver’s Civic Center Park on Sunday.
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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.
