Join the topless parade.
In honor of Go Topless Day on Sunday, women's equality activists will march in Midtown in the 2016 Freedom/ERA/Go Topless Parade.
The marchers will gather at West 58th Street and Eighth Avenue at 11 a.m., according to the event's Facebook page. The parade will go down Broadway and turn east on West 48th Street. The parade will then turn at Second Avenue and end at Dag Hammersjold Plaza at East 47th Street and Second Avenue.
At the plaza there will be a rally from 1:30 to 4 p.m.
Go Topless Day falls on the Sunday closest to Women's Equality Day, which is Aug. 26. Marrying the celebration — or protest — of topless laws in cities across the country with the day women won the right to vote in the U.S. "is only logical," according to organizers, because "the right to go topless for women is based on gender equality as their right to vote once was."
A couple years ago the NYPD ordered its officers not to arrest women for being topless in public, removing the risk of being cited for public lewdness or indecent exposure.
