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That person was a certain sergeant at a nearby precinct. The sergeant -- who Kuby says had confronted Golub before, when the artist was working outside a toy store -- had officers arrest the model. The model was released without being charged, and now Kuby says he's looking into pursuing a civil rights case against the sergeant, who Kuby believes let his personal beliefs override his duty to the law.
"He can raise his children any way he wants," says Kuby. "He just can't raise New York's children any way he wants."
Adds Golub, "I think it teaches us how much we've been inundated with shame about the body."
Asked about the public's reaction to his work, Golub says that most people are either fascinated by it, or they don't think much about it and walk on by. Only very occasionally does someone say out loud that it's disgraceful or disgusting.
Now let's contrast Golub's situation with recent goings-on in San Francisco. As described by Lauren Smiley in a December 2010 feature story called Overexposed, men in the Castro have been walking around -- and lounging, and reading, and shopping, and going out to eat -- with no clothes on. They do this for no artistic purpose, and in San Francisco, that's legal -- unless someone complains.
To make an arrest, a police officer must have the offended person sign his or her name to an official complaint, which not many people are willing to do in the Castro. It's a subtle, uneasy battle over "the Castro as Epicenter of Gay America" vs. "the Castro as Just Like Everywhere Else." (We believe some of the assimilationists should read Michael Warner's The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life or Daniel Harris' The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture.)
The result is cops approaching these men in the buff, advising them that so-and-so over there is thinking about signing a complaint against them, and if that happens, then, well, We're going to have to bring you in.
Supervisor Scott Wiener is pushing a local law that would require nudists to at least cover their private parts and put something between their keisters and seating when they dine out.
We wonder whether latex paint would count?
Art / Commentary / Public Art / Queer / Sex and Sexuality Public Nudity: It's Different in New York City (Sort of)
Posted on Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM
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That person was a certain sergeant at a nearby precinct. The sergeant -- who Kuby says had confronted Golub before, when the artist was working outside a toy store -- had officers arrest the model. The model was released without being charged, and now Kuby says he's looking into pursuing a civil rights case against the sergeant, who Kuby believes let his personal beliefs override his duty to the law.
"He can raise his children any way he wants," says Kuby. "He just can't raise New York's children any way he wants."
Adds Golub, "I think it teaches us how much we've been inundated with shame about the body."
Asked about the public's reaction to his work, Golub says that most people are either fascinated by it, or they don't think much about it and walk on by. Only very occasionally does someone say out loud that it's disgraceful or disgusting.
Now let's contrast Golub's situation with recent goings-on in San Francisco. As described by Lauren Smiley in a December 2010 feature story called Overexposed, men in the Castro have been walking around -- and lounging, and reading, and shopping, and going out to eat -- with no clothes on. They do this for no artistic purpose, and in San Francisco, that's legal -- unless someone complains.
To make an arrest, a police officer must have the offended person sign his or her name to an official complaint, which not many people are willing to do in the Castro. It's a subtle, uneasy battle over "the Castro as Epicenter of Gay America" vs. "the Castro as Just Like Everywhere Else." (We believe some of the assimilationists should read Michael Warner's The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life or Daniel Harris' The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture.)
The result is cops approaching these men in the buff, advising them that so-and-so over there is thinking about signing a complaint against them, and if that happens, then, well, We're going to have to bring you in.
Supervisor Scott Wiener is pushing a local law that would require nudists to at least cover their private parts and put something between their keisters and seating when they dine out.
We wonder whether latex paint would count?
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