A North Carolina city is one of a dozen around the country where female activists are taking a stand for the right to go topless.
The protest for equity in what the two genders are allowed to show is set for Sunday at Asheville's downtown Pack Square Park.
Local protest organizer Livienne Love tells the Asheville Citizen-Times (http://bit.ly/qJghNW) that it's time to push back against a social stigma that makes women uncomfortable to go bare-chested while men can. The protest and others like it across the United States is organized by GoTopless.org, a website based in Great Britain.
ASHEVILLE — Female activists for gender equality plan to bare their breasts — and ask men to cover theirs — Sunday in Pack Square Park downtown.
While they may be uncomfortable, they won’t be breaking the law, according to Police Department spokesman Wally Welch. “They can breast away,” said Lt. Welch. “It’s not a crime.”
The North Carolina statute that covers indecent exposure bans the exposure of “private parts,” specifically “external organs of sex or excretion.” That only covers body parts below the waist, Welch said.
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