Seattle’s gay community wants to sunbathe nude at the expense of children
Jeremiah Poff
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If you live in Seattle and want to take your child to the playground near the beach, you are out of luck, thanks to pressure from the city’s gay community, which wants to use the area for nude sunbathing.
Last month, Seattle’s Parks and Recreation department canceled a planned playground at the publicly accessible Denny Blaine Park on the shores of Lake Washington after the local gay community rose up and opposed the project because it said the playground jeopardized its ability to use the beach in the park for nude swimming and sunbathing.
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The city had selected the site because of a scarcity of public playgrounds in the Denny Blaine neighborhood, which is one of the city’s most affluent and upscale regions.
The project would have been entirely privately funded and would not have cost taxpayers a dime. But the city’s gay community could not abide such a construction because it would have required them to engage in the horrible practice of putting on some clothes while in public. The community even claimed that building the playground amounted to the “weaponization of children.”
The reason for the outrage was that the park has been a favorite clothing-optional gathering place for Seattle’s gay community due to the city’s lax public nudity laws, which only prohibit someone from flaunting their birthday suit to someone who does not wish to see it. The park has no official designation as a nude beach.
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“If you have a person who’s not in the community showing up with their kids, and there are people around who are naked, they’re probably going to call the cops,” one local member of the gay community, Milo Kusold, told the Seattle Times. “This is kind of the weaponization of children to try to exclude or harm the queer community. This is just another example.”
It’s hard not to imagine a scenario in which a parent would call the police on seeing a grown adult sans clothing in a public place. Putting on some trousers or even a pair of swim trunks would easily resolve the matter, but that’s a bridge too far for a community that “prides” itself on public displays of sexuality and immodesty.