Nude gay pride parade
Two videos authentically showed that some naked men participated in the June Seattle Pride Parade and also bathed in International Fountain, in both instances with families and children. Images of attendees said to be at Seattle's LGBTQ+ Pride parade have drawn outrage online after some appeared naked in public. Pictures posted on social media, which Newsweek could not. Nude Summer of Love Parade took place on May 20 and will continue this Sunday, June 25th at the Gay Pride Parade.
We had 60 nude participants and the Dutch Public Broadcast TV filmed the parade for a documentary about the Summer of Love that will air in Holland this summer. It wouldn't be a "family-friendly" Pride parade if people weren't walking around naked. The Seattle Pride Parade has been shrouded in controversy after some videos on social media showed naked adults exposing themselves in front of children.
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Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Pictures posted on social media, which Newsweek could not immediately verify, show people with rainbow flags riding bikes in the nude, and later standing on a street where children were walking past. The story was promptly picked up by several right-wing news outlets.
ET and finishing at 3 p. ET near the Space Needle north of Belltown. Why were they not arrested? I'm all for pride, but this is not that. Local news channel KOMO reported that the Seattle Police Department had received no official complaints over the nudity and had made no arrests. A spokesperson for the force stressed to Newsweek that their role at the event had been to ensure safety and security, rather than regulate the behavior of attendees.
Been like that since I was a kid. According to local NPR affiliate KUOW, it is legal to be nude anywhere within Seattle—though there are limits to this freedom, and nudists tend to congregate in known spots. It reported that the city had outlawed public nudity in the s, until a court case over two nudists who had been arrested led a judge to rule that the local law violated their First Amendment rights.
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The measure was repealed four years later. Indecent exposure is still prohibited, however Seattle's municipal code stipulates that the prosecution must prove the person knew that their conduct was "likely to cause reasonable affront or alarm. Simple," one Twitter user wrote. Another wrote: "Straight people bike naked in Seattle and no one says a word until it happens at Pride.
Fewer than two weeks ago, naked people cycled through the city—many covered in body paint—as part of an annual summer solstice parade. Images of the parade from appear to show children watching. A Seattle Police Department spokesperson said that "reasonable minds can easily differ as to whether general nudity in the context of a parade where such activity is often part and parcel of the parade's overall draw as in, for example, the Fremont Solstice Parade with its long and well-publicized history of nude bicyclists is 'obscene' or 'likely to cause reasonable affront or alarm' to the audience gathered.
They added: "The role of the Seattle Police Department at this particular event was to assure the safety and security of the overall event—not to regulate activities that are better left to parade organizers and the permit process. Copy Link. By Aleks Phillips is a Newsweek U. You can get in touch with Aleks by emailing aleks. Writers Page.