It continues to transform humanity in new ways that keep evolving and seducing more and more people into love, compassion and world peace. The Summer of Love began in the 60s but it never ended. We were invited to think and feel globally, to wake up from the nightmare of corporate greed and exploitation, to heal our emotional wounds and to find our true core of power in order to create a brilliant future that will unfold throughout generations to come. It brought us a much stronger and more real sense of community, communion with nature, unity of the heart and spirit that brought together nations across the world. It brought us spiritual and emotional liberation through music, theater, dance and other forms of art. It brought us a spiritual awakening of unprecedented proportions, which in turn lead to a powerful peace movement, sexual liberation, body freedom, women’s rights, civil rights, animal rights, environmental protections and other grass roots movements on all fronts of human existence. It sent such powerful ripples of love throughout our whole planet that it changed the world forever. The hippie movement was born here, in San Francisco. Our Nude Parade is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love! SPEECH AT NUDE SUMMER OF LOVE PARADE BY GYPSY TAUB: The Summer of Love continues as we continue to celebrate love and freedom, as we continue to protest against government oppression, as we stand up for our basic right to be human. We will march in solidarity with those who have fought and who continue fighting for our freedom to be ourselves, our freedom to love ourselves and to love others in the ways we choose without being subjected to government tyranny. The nudity ban goes against the most basic common sense and against nature, our very own human nature. The nudity ban is not only unconstitutional – for it violates our freedom of expression, not only does it go against the Declaration of Independence – for it deprives us of liberty in our pursuit of happiness. That’s why we demand that the government keep its laws off our bodies! We demand the repeal of the nudity ban that criminalizes the human body in its most natural form. We all have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We have no reason to be ashamed of our God-given bodies, just as we have no reason to be ashamed of our God-given desires. Not only do we have the right to make love to our lovers in any way we want, we also have the right to dress or undress the way we want. Just as the gay/bisexual/transgender folks fight for their freedom of choice to do what they please with their own bodies so do we join the same fight to do what we please with our bodies. We proudly celebrate our bodies as well as the spirit of the 60s that brought us profound spiritual awakenings as well as sexual liberation and body freedom. On this 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love we are proud to march nude in the Gay Pride Parade as the Body Freedom Lovers. More details about the upcoming Gay Pride contingent: The documentary will air in Holland this summer.īody Freedom Lovers will continue the Nude Summer of Love celebration this Sunday, June 25th as a contingent at the Gay Pride Parade.
We had 60 nude participants, quite a few women this time, and a documentary crew from Dutch Public Broadcast TV who filmed the parade for a documentary about the Summer of Love. Body Freedom Lovers had an amazing Nude Summer of Love Parade on May 20, 2017.