To the River in the Rain
Usually we meet as a group: we choose a day, head to a park or plaza, and hang out topless in the sun together. Safety in numbers, and also it’s more fun to hang out in the park with friends than by...
View ArticlePublic, Private
We recently had the good fortune to reach nearly 2 million viewers with the brief video documentary that 60-Second Docs created about us. Maybe by the time you read this it’ll be over 2 million, who...
View ArticleThanksgiving
Back in June, we visited Madison Square Park together with a videographer from an outfit called 60-Second Docs, an organization that makes minute-long documentaries about people and groups they find...
View ArticleHeaded For a Fall
If every fall could be like this one has been so far, we’d have nothing to complain about. Well, that’s not exactly true: the threat of nuclear war, racism back at home, a real son of a bitch in the...
View ArticleLast Days and First Times
The last days of summer are always bittersweet for us — we wait through months of fall and winter and early spring for it finally to be warm enough for us to go outdoors without coats on, never mind...
View ArticleThe Video You Never Saw
Back in May — four months ago now — one of our favorite websites, Jezebel, came to an event we held in Central Park, to film a video piece about our group and the 25th anniversary of the legal decision...
View ArticleLiving the Dream
For the fourth year in a row, we celebrated the end of summer (which, okay, technically hasn’t come yet…but it sure feels like it has) by visiting the rooftop pool at the Dream Hotel. They set aside...
View ArticleDancing on the Beach
Sorting through all our photos from the summer, remembering the good times we’ve had, we came across a brief video we shot when we were on Riis Beach but somehow forgot to include when we posted our...
View ArticleOur Day in the Sun, Part II
In our last post, we described how we met up with Chelsea Covington for an afternoon and evening of topless fun, first in a park downtown, then strolling the streets and waterfront of lower Manhattan,...
View ArticleOur Day in the Sun, Part I
It is of course legal for women to go topless in New York anywhere a man can, and it has been for the past 25 years. That’s true in any of the city’s parks, where men habitually relax topless in the...
View ArticleEaster? I Hardly Knew Her!
Yes, last night it was hailing. And this morning we woke up to the sight of snow, crusting the ground and shining on the roofs of parked cars. Hail. Snow. The week before Easter! But the day before...
View ArticleChocolate, Wine, Books, and Plans For World Domination
Spring is almost here…almost. Oh so very almost. But not quite. It’s was still drizzly in the morning and windy in the afternoon. But we dauntless crusaders for pleasure in all forms did not let that...
View ArticleThe Nerve! (Or, Is It Spring Yet…?)
Nerve.com, one of the Internet’s earliest sites to focus on the intersection of the erotic and the literate, was thoughtful enough to assign Alison Gaylin to write about us: http://goo.gl/rtB64y. Only...
View ArticleFor Collectors Only
Richard Prince–acclaimed artist, bibliophile, and friend of our merry band–has curated a book of our photographs and published it in a limited edition of just 300 copies. The book debuted at a special...
View ArticleBest of the Year, 2013 Edition
…and so, another year draws to a close. It’s been a fun one, and we thank all of you for your part in it, whether you came to one of our events and participated or just read about them on here (or on...
View ArticleSingularity
What to do when it’s 40 degrees outside? Meet indoors, with the heat turned up high, plenty of wine (including, as a tip of the hat to E.A. Poe, a cask of Amontillado), sublime pastries by the inventor...
View ArticleGiving Thanks Once More
For good friends, and good food, and good times. For good books. For good weather, that allowed us to meet 24 times this year (so far!). For living in a city where our bodies are not objects of...
View ArticleSun In Autumn
It feels like only yesterday it was Halloween. (Well, the day before.) Now here we are and it’s November and what do you know? The sun came out. And it was warm and beautiful, the sort of fall day you...
View ArticleHappy Halloween
The temperature climbed into the upper 60s today, so we decided to brave the autumn weather (overcast and, briefly, raining) for a little walking tour of the Lincoln Center area. We started at the...
View ArticleAt Liberty
What’s worse? Being in the dead of winter, when summer is no more than a distant memory, or a time like now, when the thermometer creeps toward the 60s but no further, teasing us and then retreating?...
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