I Missed National Coming Out Day!

National Coming Out Day is October 11, annually. It somehow slipped my mind!  

But one of my favorite gay adult actors (porn), go-go boy and bloggers, Beaux Banks (featured throughout this post) - didn't. He shared the above pictures of himself along with this all important message: "Coming out wasn't easy but now my life is! Here's to living out and free!" 

When he first began appearing in gay adult movies, I didn't particularly care for Mr. Banks as he was very modest about being seen with his penis hanging out, uncovered. He seemed to always cup it into the palm of his hands or discretely conceal his man-tool behind a hat, a bandana or any other accessory he could find.

As the images above clearly demonstrate, he's most definitely all out and proud now! 

Peace! Get naked. Enjoy!

Bare With Pride

Stonewall Anniversary

The nondescript building (above) is the Stonewall Inn, located in Greenwich Village, New York City, USA. It was on this night, June 28-29, 1969, that the Stonewall Inn Riots occurred, which changed forever the lives of GLBTQ (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer) people not only here in the USA but throughout the world. The image shows the Stonewall Inn as it appeared in 1969. 

On this night, New York City police conducted what they thought would be a routine raid against the Stonewall and its clientele. That didn't happen. Instead, the "complacent" clientele, meaning the GLBTQ patrons at the bar, not only resisted arrest and harassment, they forcefully fought off the police and instead trapped them inside the facility. 

What transpired that night initially didn't seem extraordinary nor credible. Prior to June 28, 1969, the "homosexuals" were deemed a deviant menace to society. They were regularly and routinely thought of as an indecent and immoral class of citizens and habitually discriminated against, stereotyped, outlawed and harassed, not only by law enforcement, but also by courts, employers, churches and clergy, their fellow citizens and the U. S. government. 

   

The above images are of the rioting outside the Stonewall Inn on June 28/29, 1969. Photos courtesy the New York Village Voice newspaper. 

By 1969, the "homosexual" community (as the GLBTQ community was then known) was totally disgusted with this second-class status. They had helped the Black community protest for equality, the anti-war community demonstrate against the war in Vietnam and feminists causes. They were ready to strike back against injustice on their own.

They were angry, frustrated and tired. Unfortunately, the police raid against the Stonewall Inn happened to be the Bastille they rallied to defend.

Rather than fade away quietly into the night, they reacted. Their reaction created one of the pivotal civil rights and human rights movements that humanity has witnessed. A grassroots revolution that is currently underway, even today, throughout the world.

The Rainbow Flag wasn't born that night in New York City. It didn't come to symbolize the GLBTQ international community until years later. It does represent the freedom that all GLBTQ people throughout the world seek. And it is a bold and colorful reminder of what those "homosexuals" revolted against all those many years ago.

Happy Stonewall Anniversary! Happy Gay Pride!

Peace! Get naked. Enjoy!

Bare With Pride

Happy Gay Nude Pride Month!

Happy Gay Nude Pride Month!

Today is the first Sunday of June: Gay Nude Pride Month!

Strip off your clothes, grab your Rainbow flag and show your Pride!

Peace! Get naked. Enjoy!

Bare With Pride

Do Something Naked Today: Celebrate Gay Pride

Today is the first day of June, 2017. The fist day of every month is customarily a day when we here at Guys Without Boxers: Bare With Pride celebrate as Do Something Naked Today! As June is always Gay Pride month here in the USA, let's all plan to do something special as we commemorate this auspicious occasion! Just as the guys with their bicycles above are showing off their gay, nude pride, we should all do the same! 

We'll all strip off our cumbersome clothes and join in by proudly being the gay, naked men that we all truly are! So strip now!

Now that we've all removed our burden of superficial garments, we can be both proud and bare while we proudly offer ourselves to all the world as being proud gay men!

Now we can all take comfort as being proud, nude gay men!

Happy Gay Nude Pride Month, 2017!

Peace! Get naked. Enjoy!

Bare With Pride

Friday Footnotes: Random Thoughts

I've been thinking lately...

Why is it that when heterosexual couples engage in public displays of affection (PDA), it's always considered romantic, cute, adorable and appropriate? No one seems to have any problem regardless of how much they paw, pet and caress each other and where they do it. I've observed countless couples while shopping, commuting to and from work or dining out.  Some couples look and act as though they have nothing left to do but to have intercourse in full view of everyone.  

Yet let a same gender loving couple simply holding hands enter into the picture and automatically those same, identical behaviors become obscene, despicable and shameless. 

I understand that PDA among same gender loving couples is a recent phenomenon. Not all people are in favor of marriage equality. Some folks view same gender love as sinful and the devil's work. I know all this and wonder where do these folks get off?

Regardless of their personal beliefs, marriage equality is the law of the land. You may not support or approve of gay/lesbian marriage or even of their love, but that is your personal belief. Not everyone feels or thinks the same as you. And it is not up to you to comment on the beliefs of others.

So kindly keep your judgments and remarks on others to yourself. Thank you!

Peace! Get naked. Enjoy!

Bare With Pride

NABWMT

My husband, Aaron, and I are a biracial couple. I don't think that it was pre-planned, it simply happened. We saw each other for the first time, accidentally, at a social nudist function. The next day we had our first date. Within a year we were living together as a couple. In August, 2015, we married. Each of our families not only supported us emotionally but also strongly encouraged us to legally wed. We both acknowledge that this is not the case for everyone. 

We're members of a national organization that is supportive of biracial gay couples and is committed to fighting both homophobia and racism. We're not as active in our local chapter as we would like and that is due to our varying work schedules, more so Aaron's than mine. The name of this organization is the National Association of Black and White Men Together (NABWMT). 

The mission of NABWMT:

"The National Association of Black and White Men Together is a gay, multiracial, multicultural organization committed to fostering supportive environments wherein racial and cultural barriers can be overcome and the goal of human equality realized. To these ends we engage in educational, political, cultural and social activities as a means of dealing with the racism, sexism, homophobia, HIV/AIDS discrimination and other inequalities in our communities and in our lives."  

We both hope to become more involved in our local affiliate this year. Hopefully, next year we would like to attend the national convention. Although it isn't a nudecentric group, we would like to expand our circle of friendship with other biracial couples throughout the USA.

Interested in additional information on NABWMT? Check out their website by clicking the link below:

National Association of Black and White Men Together  

http://www.nabwmt.org

Peace! Get naked. Enjoy!

Bare With Pride

Dr. Martin Luther King Day

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968

Today is the observance of the U. S. holiday honoring the birthday of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the slain American civil rights leader and peace advocate. In the style of Gandhi, Dr. King was known for his belief in non-violent protest, even when confronted by physical force. U. S. Federal law mandates the celebration of most public holidays on the Monday closest to the original date. 

Dr. King was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace by King Gustav of Sweden in 1964. In 1977, he was posthumously awarded the U. S. Presidential Medal of Freedom by the (then) U. S. President, Jimmy Carter. 

During his lifetime, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was noted for his advancing the cause of equal rights, his commitment to non-violence and pacifism (especially for his opposition to the Vietnam War) and his championing voting rights and civil rights for people everywhere but particularly in the United States of America. He was a vocal critic of the (then) policy in South Africa of complete racial separation. 

The Reverend Dr. King was the undisputed leader of the grass-roots movement to secure racial equality for all oppressed peoples within the U. S. A. He was one of the founders and guiding forces of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He served for many years as the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Although Dr. King was assassinated before the modern Gay, Lesbian, BiSexual, Transgender (GLBT) movement began (he was shot in April, 1968; the Stonewall Riots happened in June, 1969), he is recognized as a definitive inspiration by the GLBT community worldwide. After his death, his widow, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, publicly stated many times that she had no doubt in her mind of his support of the GLBT community in their struggle for equality. 

In the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. King delivered his infamous "I Have A Dream" speech, he never wavered in his support of Bayard Ruskin, one of the principal organizers of the event. Many of the other civil rights leaders involved and some of the Reverend Dr. King's own advisors urged him to fire Ruskin and denounce him after it was discovered that he (Ruskin) was homosexual. Dr. King refused to do so and even had Ruskin appear publicly onstage with him before the more than 200,000 people congregated on The National Mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial. 

Peace! Get naked. Enjoy!

Bare With Pride