Mark Storey
Mark Storey is a board member of the Naturist Action Committee and has testified at anti-nudity legislation hearings all over the United States.
As editor-at-large for [...] & NATURAL, The Naturist Society's magazine, he has written interesting and informative narratives of all the naturist events he has participated in or helped organize. He did a great piece on the [...] beaches of Long Island on the East coast and participated in the Fremont Fresh Air Festival along with two other intrepid clothes free activists as [...] bicyclers to much media attention.
He is a founding member of the Body Freedom Collaborative in Seattle whose goal is to bring attention for the need for legal clothing-optional beaches through "guerilla pranksterism", among other approaches.
In 1999 he led the effort to defeat Washington Senate Bill 5351, a measure that would have placed skinny-dippers on the state's list of [...] offenders.
Mark is also author of a new book, Cinema Au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film.
Further reading
Books authored
- Storey, Mark Theatre au Naturel: A Collection of Naturist Plays (Trade Paperback) Heureka Productions (June 20, 2005).
- Storey, Mark Cinema Au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film. Published by Naturist Education Foundation (July 1, 2003).
Articles authored
- [...] & Natural Social Nudity, [...] Attraction, and Respect by Mark Storey, 24.3 Spring 2005.
- [...] & Natural Children, Social Nudity and Academic Research by Mark Storey, 23.4 Summer 2004.
- [...] & Natural Takin' It to the Streets: The [...] Edge of Naturism by Mark Storey, 23.4: 73, Summer 2004. Mark claims "The future of naturism is on public lands. To gain naturist freedoms on public lands will require getting [...] in public".
- [...] & Natural The Offense of Public Nudity by Mark Storey
- [...] & Natural Naturism and Civil Disobedience by Mark Storey
- [...] & Natural The Bethell Approach: A Protest Colloquy/The Bethell Approach: Is the Time for Mass [...] Protests Upon Us? 21.2 Winter 2002. Includes statements by Vincent Bethell, Mark Nisbet, Cec Cinder, Paul Rapoport, Les Rootsey, Morley Schloss, T.A. Wyner, and Mark Storey.
- [...] & Natural (N), Guerilla Nudity/Wave Makers: Introducting the Body Freedom Collaborative by Mark Storey. Issue 23.1, Autumn 2003.
Press coverage
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Exposed and stark [...] -- on purpose: But not all nudists support 'guerrilla' plans for prominent public exposure, by P-I reporter Kathy George, April 7, 2003 1.
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Trio behind the arts: Three activists put on an eye-opening display yesterday by taking most of their clothes off at the Fremont Fresh Art Festival, by P-I reporter Kathy George, 16 June 2003 Front page of local section, with color picture 2
See also
- Clothes free organizations
- List of public outdoor clothes free places
- Naturism and Nudism
- Public nudity
- Skinny dipping
- The Naturist Society