Seattle Pride Parade - Naked Adults Expose Genitalia to Children

BREAKING: Fully-naked adults riding bikes expose their genitalia to children at Seattle Pride.
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— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 25, 2023

How is this legal? This must be illegal. Right?

Wrong. Not in Seattle.

From KUOW:

Little known Seattle factoid: City law allows you to be nude anywhere, any time.

Not, however, if you flaunt it and make others uncomfortable. (Flashers, be warned.)

...In August, 1988, an anonymous writer to the Seattle Gay News submitted a letter to the editor in support of topless self-expression at Denny-Blaine Beach.

“There is a beach here in Seattle where many Lesbians gather regularly – to be ‘out,’ to be comfortable … just to be,” it read. “Straight men come in droves – they line the wall, they zoom in on boats, they come dressed up in police suits and give out tickets for ‘lewd conduct’ because some of us don’t wear shirts.”

The 1980s tested the city’s lewd conduct to the limit. The city was forced to pay a $110,000 judgment to a couple that skinny dipped at Madison Beach in 1982, got arrested, and then sued. (According to the Seattle Weekly, the Seattle Police Department kept their clothes as evidence.)

Finally, in 1990, a state appellate judge ruled the city’s lewd conduct law violated First Amendment rights to freedom of expression in a case titled Seattle vs. Johnson. (Yes, really.)

Four years later, the Seattle City Council finally repealed the law.

State law still prohibits crimes of indecent exposure. Seattle didn’t have its own indecent exposure law until 2013 when the city sought to harmonize its criminal code with state law.

Under municipal code now, prosecutors must prove a naked person knows “that such conduct is likely to cause reasonable affront or alarm.”

“That’s why our office might prosecute a flasher, but not a Fremont Solstice naked bike rider,” said Seattle City Attorney spokesperson Dan Nolte.

So, lewdness is in the eye of the beholder in Seattle. If flashing children is done in the name of Pride, it's acceptable, even encouraged.

This is disgusting.

I'd like to know what Biden thinks about adults exposing themselves to children during a public parade on a city street. Does he find this behavior abhorrent? Does Biden have the flashers' backs?

Maybe Ashley Biden could lend some insight on the matter. Hunter, too.