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My Nude Trip to Toronto

February 1999

Ain't capitalism great? No sooner than it's established that nude beaches draw tourists, and Toronto goes out and makes nudity legal at their downtown Hanlan's Point beach. And, we hear, now even straight nudists go there in droves!

But I had been going to Toronto to get naked for years before that. (OK, two years, to be exact...) I highly recommend it. The scenery is wonderful, the natives are attractive (so cuuuuute in those little fur outfits!), the dollar is still at a premium so your hard-earned money flows from your pockets into Canadian coffers at a relatively low rate -- in short, it's everything that a good gay male capitalist Yankee imperialist nudist could possibly want. Naked pen ises swinging back and forth of every size, shape, color, and ethnicity -- and a lot of them are uncut, too! (It's their backwards medical practices -- they have communist medicine, you see.)

But enough of the tourist claptrap, OK? Just what is there to do nude at Toronto's wonderful sights?

Well, I'll tell you by showing you what I did last February, when I got naked-dance horny, couldn't take it any longer, and flew to Toronto for about a week-long visit.

Toronto:

World Capital of Gay Male Nudism?

I should say so! Not only does Toronto have two gay male nudist clubs, but as far as I can tell it has more activities for gay men to get naked than any other city on the face of the earth. That statement includes New York and San Francisco, Amsterdam and London.

Want a list? Just check out the pages for the TNT!MEN group. (The other gay naturist group also has a website, but it's less extensive than this one.) Every month, there are:

• Four or five underwear parties where you can dance naked if you want to (at the Barn).
• Four or five Naked Nights at the Toolbox, a butch/leather/whatever kind of bar (photos here).
• Four or five Naked Nights at the Eagle leather bar, where nudity is uncommon but permitted.
• One or two all-male nude swims at a municipal pool (photos here).
• A large (200-300) nude dance at the Barn (photos here).
• Several private parties given by the two gay naked groups, TNT!MEN and TCAN (for photo examples, click here or here or here).

And then there's the Gay Pride march each June. Several cities have had occasional nude marchers, usually loners, over the years, but only in Toronto has the local gay naked group gotten involved in a significant way. Two members of TNT!MEN marched nude in 1996, and about a dozen did so in 1997. It's been a tradition ever since -- in spite of the opposition of the local Gay Pride Committee one year (1998) and the Mayor's apparent reluctance (which some believe to be carefully crafted politics). Of course, many TNT members do not march nude; it's a personal decision.

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