Topless in Vancouver
UPDATED NEWS -23 March 2007
About Linda Meyer
The photo on the shirt is of Linda’s own breasts!
(photo by Nancy Grønskov, 1998 July 10)
This topless woman (her name is Linda Meyer) was followed by police–and photographers and a camera crew–as soon as she left Gassy Jack Square and started walking down Water Street. She was armed, however, with what she told me was a Supreme Court decision defending her right to bare her breasts in public, which she handed to police, who made some phone calls and finally left her alone.
“Grasstown Smoke-In & Street Jamboree” commemorating the 35th anniversary of the police-instigated riot against potheads in Gastown in 1971. This time the police largely kept their distance despite incendiary rhetoric from Marc Emery, the so-called Prince of Pot currently fighting extradition to the U.S., and enough second-hand smoke to make passing tourists high. The presence of numerous photographers and a camera crew no doubt also kept both potheads and police on their best behavior.
from http://flickr.com/photos/43517501@N00/209848175
More topless in Vancouver
Vancouver Police will soon be circulating a memo reminding officers that it’s okay for woman to walk around the City topless.
The move comes after a complaint was made to the police department from a woman who has crusaded for the right to go shirtless for years and was victorius in BC Supreme Court.
Vancouevr Police Chief Jamie Graham says not everyone realizes it’s okay to bare your breasts in public, “Whether we’ve now evolved to a stage in our society where people can walk around with no clothes or topless is an issue that is going to generate, on some people’s part, concern and when that happens they phone us.”
Graham says officers don’t mean any harm when they detain a topless woman, even if it’s just for brief questioning.
A memo is now being sent to officers reminding them of the Court ruling.
cknw news
MORE TOPLESS WOMEN
Thanks to the brave Gwen Jacob from Guelph, Ontario and the 1996 court ruling in her favour, Yolanda Rudzinski (who lives in southeast Michigan) may enjoy being “topfree at Pelee.”
Yolanda Rudzinski in Point Pelee National Park (Ontario)(photo by Matt Rudzinski, 2000 October)
Yolanda Rudzinski at John E. Pearce Provincial Park (Ontario)
(photos by Matt Rudzinski)
