In August of 1920, the 19th amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. In 1970, August 26 was designated as Women’s Equality Day by congress. And on August 23, 2008 women in various cities across this great nation of ours took to the outdoors with their breasts bared to protest the double standard of men being allowed to be topless in public, while women are not afforded that same right.

This multi-city topless protest was organized by GoTopless.org. On the organization’s website, this mission statement is posted on the homepage.

Gotopless.org claims constitutional equality between men and women on being topless in public. Currently, women who dare to be topless in public in the US are repeatedly being arrested, fined, humiliated, criminalized. On Aug 23rd, 2008, topless women will rally in great numbers across the USA to protest this gross inequality in the law and will demand that they be granted the fundamental right to be topless where men already enjoy that right according to the 14th amendment of the Constitution…

Among the locations where topless women gathered in protest were Venice Beach in Los Angeles, South Beach in Miami, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Omaha Nebraska.

Rael, the founder of GoTopless.org, was at the Venice Beach protest and was interviewed by LAlist.com. “As long as men can be topless, constitutionally women should have the same right, or men should also be forced to wear something hiding their chest,” said Rael.

Other GoTopless.org bare-breasted protests to be held this summer include a topless demonstration at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.