Gays Against Nudity

[DonViejo]

San Francisco’s nudity ban shows gay households aren’t making society queer. They’re making gays bourgeois.

By William Saletan|Posted Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, at 3:59 PM ET

Ever since gay marriage became a plausible idea, opponents have predicted it would unravel society. There’d be runaway polygamy, bestiality, and public nudity. In 2008, as Californians debated a gay-marriage ballot measure, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality said it was “no coincidence that the man who took it upon himself four years ago to illegally and radically redefine marriage,” then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, was promoting an event featuring “rampant public nudity.” This year, the Family Policy Institute of Washington warned that Referendum 74, which proposed to legalizing same-sex marriage in Washington state, would “make marriage genderless” and lead to men using women’s locker rooms. The National Organization for Marriage, capitalizing on a nudist’s stunt, ran the headline: “The ‘Naked Cowboy’ Comes Out for Gay Marriage.” The Iowa Republican depicted same-sex marriage as a gateway to nudity, incest, and necrophilia.

The predictions haven’t panned out. Instead, gays have drawn a line. While voters in Washington and three other states endorsed same-sex marriage this month, residents of San Francisco’s Castro district, possibly the most gay-friendly place on Earth, persuaded the city’s board of supervisors to pass an ordinance restricting public nudity. The rise of same-sex households isn’t making society queer. It’s making gay people bourgeois.

San Francisco is famous for tolerating nudity. Men in chaps, jockstraps, and sometimes less stroll around at annual festivals such as the Gay Pride Parade, the Folsom Street Fair, and the Bay-to-Breakers street run. But what used to be a confined, occasional indulgence has become a chronic nuisance. Certain men, known as “the naked guys,” walk the streets and hang out daily a busy Castro intersection, offending bystanders. It’s exactly what critics of same-sex marriage predicted.

What happened next, however, didn’t fit the prediction. The offended bystanders—most notably, gay men—asked the district’s representative, Supervisor Scott Wiener, to stop the naked guys. Last week, Wiener persuaded his colleagues on the Board of Supervisors to pass an ordinance making it illegal for anyone to "expose his or her genitals, perineum or anal region on any public street, sidewalk, street median, parklet or plaza.”

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more:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2012/11/san_francisco_s_nudity_ban_is_gay_marriage_making_homosexuals_conservative.html?wpisrc=newsletter_slatest_afternoon_newsletter

[banned from Kos]

1. of this country's 367,984 problems

public nudity is dead last.

[booley]

2. Not surprising in the least

Gay people weren't outsiders raging against the mainstream because they had something in their genes.

They were there because society had forced them to be there.

Now that that pressure is greatly reduced, Gay people show they are assimilationist as anyone else. This is because human beings in general are assimilationist.

[Purveyor]

3. A nude beach, nude resort...I'm fine with, in fact when I lived in Texas, many weekend was spent

on the Gulf of Mexico, camping with the dogs and others on a unofficial 'nude beach'.

That said, nude anywhere, anytime where people can be offended or embarrassed is not at all appropriate and should not be allowed.