Thursday, August 2, 2012

Woman Goes Topless In NYC to Fight for Equality; Moira Johnston Says Women Need Equal Rights

The Inquisitr website reports today (August 2, 2012) that women's rights activist Moira Johnston -- who has been walking the streets of New York City naked from the waist up for the past three months -- hopes to raise public awareness on the issue of women feeling comfortable while strolling about topless.

Johnston, 29,  is outspoken in her opinion that women should be treated the same as men in regards to attire or the lack thereof. She reasons that if men are legally allowed to go about topless, then women should have the same privilege.

She said she plans to continue to go bare-breasted in New York City throughout the summer. She hopes that by summer's end, more people will adjust to the idea of women going topless in public and that it will become less of a spectacle.

Johnston is within her legal rights to be topless, as New York state laws allow women to be topless in public, as well as men. NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Public Information, Paul Browne, addressed the issue with the following statement on topless laws: "The state's highest court established long ago that women have the same right as men to appear topless in public....The woman's lack of certain attire in this instance does not appear to be a police matter."

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