From: mkent@netcom.com (Marty Kent)
Subject: Top-free and Nude March, Berkeley-SF, Sunday 11 October
Organization: Netcom
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:26:52 GMT


The X-Plicit Players have been busy beavers lately!  After the 
UC Berkeley "nude-in", which I wrote about last week, we held 
a "top-free" parade, or march, or whatever you want to call 
it, through the streets of Berkeley and San Francisco on 
Sunday 11 October. 

Our initial concept of the event was to have women and men 
walking through town without shirts, enjoying each other's 
company, singing our "Breast Freedom Song" and dancing. But 
the feeling was so good that in short order, Deb, Nina and I 
took off all our clothes and led the merry group through the 
streets. Probably 15 or 20 women and men took off their tops 
at the start of the walk, and we picked up a few other people 
along the way. It was really, really great to see the feeling 
of surprised happiness jumping out of peoples' eyes as they 
looked up from their street-trances to see us approaching!  

As we rested for a while on the steps of Sproul Hall on the UC 
Berkeley campus, a couple of other people were inspired to 
throw off all their clothes as well. All in all I guess we had 
7 or 8 completely unclothed people and another 12 to 15 people 
without tops, singing and dancing on the streets of Berkeley. 
A very good time was had by all...

In the BART station (the local subway between Berkeley and San 
Francisco) we got ticketed by the BART police, who said our 
nudity was *not* against any laws, but who maintained we were 
wilfully creating a public disturbance. They expressed concern 
that some uncontrollably aroused BART patron might stumble 
onto the electric third rail at the sight of our exposed bods. 
Since the local District Attorney has thrown out all the 
previous cases brought against us, we're not exactly shivering 
in fear about this one.

After a fun talk with the BART folks, we continued our trip 
into San Francisco, where we performed our song and dance down 
along 16th Street and up Valencia into Dolores Park. 
Eventually we wound up at Pancho Villa restaurant, where the 
manager had earlier (a month ago) complained about us *putting 
our shirts on* before entering his place, insulted we thought 
so little of his hospitality that he'd require such a thing. 
Indeed, the group of (by now semi-)unclothed women and men 
were very warmly greeted by the staff of the place. 

All in all it was one of the happiest days of my life.


We're about to go on the road, visiting Austin (Tx), Rochester 
and Syracuse (NY) and Hampshire College (Northhampton, Mass). 
The last local thing we're doing before we go is to appear on 
a TV show hosted by a guy named Dr. Dean Edell (or Adell, or 
something), where they want to talk with us about the 
"healthful aspects of our lifestyle..." The shoot is on 
Wednesday morning, 14 Oct, in front of a live audience. If 
you're interested in coming to be part of the audience (which 
doesn't just sit silently; apparently you get to ask 
questions, tell us we're perverts or whatever), drop me a 
quick line or give a call. (Note that this is in San Francisco,
so probably only relevant to Bay Area locals.)

Our next local (SF Bay Area) event is a performance at New 
College, in San Francisco at 777 Valencia, on Saturday 14 
November at 5 pm. I'm also posting a list of the events we're 
doing on our trip, in case someone out there reading this is 
interested in getting together with us...

Peace and love to all.

-- 
Marty Kent 				mkent@netcom.com
Sixth Sense R & D			510 548 9129
1914A Haste St.
Berkeley Ca 94704

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