Police were at Denny Blaine Sunday(Image: @mom_calls_me_myrtle)
A police officer “on a premise” assignment at Denny Blaine Park caused a stir Sunday at the nude beach east on the shores of Lake Washington.
The Seattle Police Department is apparently cracking down on the popular Capitol Hill sunny day getaway.
Reports describe multiple police officers called to the scene Sunday telling afternoon park goers to cover up and trespassing one sunbather who refused, according to Colleen Kimseylove of the Friends of Denny Blaine Park community group that has been trying to find solutions that protect the park’s history and place in Seattle queer culture while also placating increasing hostile neighbors in the wealthy neighborhood that surrounds the nude-friendly beach and park that has been affectionately known as Dykiki for decades.
“When Kimseylove arrived, they spoke to SPD Officer Ella Brooks who told Kimseylove that no Seattle law protects nudity, and if someone called and complained, SPD officers had to respond,” independent Seattle news site The Burner reports. “The cops also told Kimseylove that someone had directed SPD to routinely check in on the park. They told Kimseylove that people needed to put their clothes on or be trespassed or potentially arrested.”
SPD reportedly told one sunbather who argued with officers Sunday they were banned from the park for the week.
The department has not publicly provided details of the order. Seattle Parks, whose Park Rangers are authorized to formally trespass individuals for breaking park rules, says it issued no trespasses at the park this weekend.
The police presence at the park began just before 2:30 PM Sunday when an officer checked in on East Precinct radio “on a premise” in Denny Blaine Park. Less than five minutes into the beat, she called in for a supervisor.
While an officer reporting in “on a premise” can have multiple meanings, it typically indicates an officer is beginning a patrol at an assigned location. Officers check in this way, for example, when SPD is conducting emphasis patrols at specific locations like a school or a business.
CHS asked SPD for more information about the incident that followed, the reported trespass, and the premise assignment but the department has not yet responded.
The Burner reports it has been told that neighbors have also hired private security to keep watch on the park and deal with police.
The apparent crackdown follows filing a lawsuit from unnamed park neighbors demanding the city address concerns at Denny Blaine over “public masturbation, public sex and other types of indecent exposure, drug use, unlawful public nudity, environmental damage to the shoreline, and scofflaw parking.” The suit all but ends any chance at goodwill and compromise the Friends of Denny Blaine group has been forging. The group has been meeting regularly to find community solutions that also protect the park’s place with queer and nudist communities.
The friends group successfully pushed back in 2023 on a plan quietly shepherded by Mayor Bruce Harrell to add a children’s playground to the park with the help of a no longer-anonymous donation from Denny Blaine neighbor and Seattle mall developer Stuart Sloan.
Sunday, meanwhile, is not the first time officials have tried to change behavior at Denny Blaine. Seattle Parks has tried here and there over the years to timidly suggest sunbathers cover up but never before with cops threatening arrest.
Given the city and SPD’s silence on the matter so far, it may not be the last.
Sunday’s weather was 60 F and breezy. Tuesday, highs are predicted to approach 80 F before a bout of rain hits the city this weekend.
UPDATE: We’ve also reached out to District 3 representative and chair of the city council’s parks committee Joy Hollingsworth to learn more about what is being done to protect community use of the park and will update when we hear back.
UPDATE x2: Hollingsworth declined to comment at this time. “Once we receive more information and facts, we will have a better understanding of the situation,” the council member said.
UPDATE x3 5/7/2025 8 AM: Hollingsworth says she is “continuing to closely monitor the situation at Denny Blaine Park, particularly in light of the events that took place last Sunday.”
In a statement posted Tuesday on social media, Hollingsworth, who is gay, said she recognizes “the deep significance of Denny Blaine to our LGBTQ+ community” and is “committed to preserving and protecting safe, inclusive public spaces for all.”
Hollingsworth, chair of the council’s parks committee, says she has been in “active communication” with the Seattle Police Department, Seattle Parks and Recreation, and the Mayor’s Office about the Sunday enforcement, and expressed her concerns over the situation, “underscoring the need for a thoughtful, community-centered approach moving forward.”
SPD’s enforcement efforts don’t seem to fit that approach. For now, Hollingsworth is still talking compromise.
“My ongoing hope—and priority—is that we can collaboratively develop a solution that respects the park’s unique heritage while ensuring the safety, dignity, and well-being of everyone who visits,” she concludes.
Katie Wilson, who is challenging incumbent Bruce Harrell for the Seattle Mayor’s office this year, also added her voice to the condemnation of SPD’s actions, calling the actions a seeming “Plan B” after efforts to change Denny Blaine like plans for the playground were scuttled.
“As I’ve been talking with voters around the City, I hear again and again that people want a police force that is adequately staffed but also responsive, trustworthy, and accountable to the communities it serves,” Wilson said in her updates on social media. “It was jarring to read this story about Denny Blaine just after a grocery worker told me about nearly being stabbed on the job and then waiting a very, very long time for police to arrive. What are our priorities? Why are we sending police to harass harmless people hanging out at a queer nude beach?”
“Of course, we know why,” she writes. “Because wealthy neighbors don’t want those people there. Just like they wanted the City to build a playground at Denny Blaine to drive them out. And Mayor Harrell’s administration was all set to oblige— until the community organized & pushed back.”
“It’s hard to avoid the suspicion that this police prodding is Plan B,” Wilson said. “And it certainly sounds like this strategy is coming from the top. It is mind-boggling that with the multiple major challenges and crises our city is facing, this is what we’re doing.”
Harrell, who said he shared “disgust” over the complaints of nudity and lewd behavior at the park in text messages revealed last year, has not yet publicly responded to the Sunday SPD enforcement at the park.
UPDATE x4 5/7/2025 9:50 AM: In a statement, the his office say Mayor Harrell has not “directed a change to SPD patrols or approach to enforcement at Denny Blaine Park.”
“As we’ve said before, Mayor Harrell recognizes that people have a right to use the park nude under State law,” a spokesperson said.
The spokesperson told CHS the mayor’s office would need to “defer to SPD on the details of specific events or any individual enforcement actions taken.” SPD’s communications team has not replied to CHS’s previous inquiries about the situation. We have added them to our conversation with the mayor’s office.
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STUART SLOAN SUCKS, PASS IT ON
Oh so SPD is ready for another large protest against the city? They’re still understaffed, they can’t afford stuff. Hope they’re ready for an uphill battle.
I have not cared less about something in my entire life, but yeah, let’s burn the city down again because “Our goddamn right to hang our junk on display is being infringed upon!” First world problems, kids. First world problems. The entire world looks upon thee with annoyance and eye rolls. Mom never told you to pick you battles?
Who said anything about burning the city down wtf
This is just typical spectator shit, like there is nothing that would ever qualify as a ‘real problem’ to them. Nothing. They could be personally be kidnapped by ICE and they might finally be like ‘well I guess this is a real issue’ and it will be absolutely worthless at that point – for them, for us, for anyone.
Yeah, nah yeah, there are plenty of real problems. I would say we have existential issues with regard to how we spend our tax revenue (you’d probably predict), and huck resources at unproven concepts, but I also think our police aren’t done reforming, and we need to do more to protect our most vulnerable and handle our palpable, real consequence issue with our addicted/unhoused population. It’s technically legal to be naked in Seattle, you say, so are you good with me doing naked yoga on the sidewalk in front of your Capitol Hill apartment, with my saggy nuts on display? Isn’t there a line that accepts the impact of your comfort on people around you? A social code, unrelated to civic law?
It doesn’t bother you at all that rich people are using publicly funded police to harass people engaging in lawful activity? It doesn’t bother you that this comes in a city where people calling for burglaries in progress or domestic violence calls or junkies smoking crack on the streets can’t get a police response for hours, but this is a reasonable use of public resources?
I don’t actually love it, but the outrage over this issue is disproportionate to the concern. It’s bonkers how badly Seattle want to share uglies with unsuspecting neighbors. There is nowhere on the planet outside of Seattle and Portland that prioritizes this so much, and it’s really fucking annoying to everyone else. We are not gaining credibility in this zone.
They did and it’s this one.
We’re talking about doxxing people, potentially bringing harm to them or their property, because they don’t love staring at the flaccid flesh bags of 30 somethings in a city that doesn’t highly value physical fitness? WTF. Waste of energy and inappropriate expense of energy.
ACAB. Defund the police.
Call the police every time there’s a dog at a playground or playfield
This is bullshit. But then so is ACAB.
The exact neighbor or neighbors pushing this need to be identified **specifically** as soon as is possible.
Why?
So they may be **specifically targeted** by the public.
What are their names? Which park-adjacent property is theirs? Where do they work and/or what businesses do they own?
Identify them so as to enable **specific targeting** of protest activity.
Threats and intimidation are not a very tolerant approach to community. Just because you don’t agree with them, doesn’t mean you should threaten and intimidate them.
Perhaps the neighbors should publish photographic evidence of the violations and label the images with names and employers. It seems like a fair in kind response to the actions you’re suggesting.
Yes, very fair response: “The people trying to get the park shut down should have to do so publicly so they have to face the social repercussions” “OKAY WELL IF YOU DO THAT
WE’RETHEY’RE GOING TO SHARE REVENGE PORN, SOOOOOO”That’s exactly what a peeping tom would do…or should we say peeping Scott.
Also, I can’t imagine that wouldn’t trigger some kind of revenge porn law, considering you can’t post nude photos of people without their consent.
Keep imagining doing what you said though, totally normal and not creepy.
These are reports of illegal activities to police.
Interesting. There are reports of illegal activities at Weller and 12th, but the police don’t respond there. I walk through Little Saigon all the time and pass people openly selling drugs, but there’s no police response. Why does this “problem” merit police response when actual crimes occurring in public in a much less wealthy neighborhood are allowed to go on and on and on?
When you are nude in public you loose all expectations of privacy that are the basis for voyeurism laws. It’s disingenuous to post incorrect details that those being nude at a public beach have legal protections that extend beyond those of sex crime victims. Didn’t know this was even a nude beach in my decades in Seattle. There’s no signs. Planning a photoshoot there to capture what all the fuss is about. Hope someone challenges my freedoms to photograph in a public park. Are there signs that no photography is allowed? That seems it would violate some law about public use.
So does calling the police here not count as a threat and intimidation? Because it sure seems to me like a threat.
Somehow, through all of this, I don’t think Sloan is *ever* going to be threatened with arrest, even if he does lose the fight
Exactly this.
Oh no, we absolutely should do what I am suggesting.
You are 100% wrong here and the reason this type of targeting continues.
Identify **exactly** who is doing this, call them out.
And identify them publicly, of course, so you can allow this kind of targeting.
Public shaming works.
The very fact you seem to think you’re making some sort of moral argument here is so funny. You, my dear Scott, are absolutely, undeniably wrong here and an excellent illustration of everything wrong with Seattle and Seattleites.
Also, I’ll point out your faux-moral posturing is **utterly pathetic.**
Don’t shop at University Village. That should make an impact.
You’ll notice it’s VERY difficult to find even a photo of Stuart Sloan online…
This is gross.
Seems pretty obvious that this is more entitled prudery from Stuart Sloan:
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2024/07/26/79620996/the-photos-denny-blaine-donor-stuart-sloan-sent-to-seattle-mayor-bruce-harrell
So some rich assholes got the police to harass/arrest people not breaking any laws – but the rest of us can’t get them to stop the vagrants actively breaking several laws at other parks?
SPD you can do better.
If people want to have a nude beach, they need to choose a site and get a municipal law passed authorizing that site to be a nude beach. Laws apply to everyone. If there is as much actual community support for a nude beach as some people on this blog seem to think, then it should be easy enough to get the appropriate authorizing law passed. If not, well then everyone will have to obey the no-nudity-in-public law. I am really tired of people on BOTH sides of the political spectrum that think laws don’t apply to them and that they can just take what they want without using the political process to pass the laws they want.
Public nudity is legal in Seattle/WA. The “no-nudity-in-public” law that you speak of doesn’t exist.
Nudity is already legal Seattlewide. People choose this park out of tradition (which makes it easy for people to avoid it if they’d like!) but they could sunbathe nude anywhere without breaking any laws.
The police don’t get to just enforce nonexistent laws because a neighbor feels uncomfortable.
Nudity in presence of 14 and younger is not legal. Masturbating and lewd behavior also not permitted
Citation?
Your ignorance is either shocking, or an act. It’s legal to be publicly nude in Seattle. There is no need for an ‘appropriate authorizing law’ You make me sick to my stomach.
Yes! Terrific idea. Let’s put it to a vote.
“Laws apply to everyone” no one is saying that they don’t, actually! Because it is pretty famously legal to be nude in public in Seattle.
Nah. Last I heard, no laws against nudity. This beach has been clothing optional for over 50 years. If people bought next to it and didn’t know, they should have. They have the money to live wherever they want. Sell. Move to where there’s no nude beach.
No, you are exactly wrong. In America, if an activity isn’t specifically made illegal, it is allowed. That is how the rule of law works in a civilized society.
In Seattle, there is no law restricting public nudity. Let me say that again: In Seattle, there is no law restricting public nudity.
In fact, you need to be the one who needs to go and get nudity made illegal. Go ahead. I’m sure the Solstice and Pride people will be happy to talk to you about Seattle’s glorious tradition of public nakedness.
None of this is true.
I’ve consistently found Denny-Blaine to be one of the most welcoming, joyful and community-oriented places in the city. Somehow stripping off the layers also strips back inhibitions. People say hi haha. And chat with their neighbors in a way I don’t see anywhere else. The city must protect this. Honestly, I pity Mr. Sloan that he is unable to see that — something must be missing in his life.
NUDE SIT IN! This is ILLEGAL by the cops. Where the HELL is Joy on this??? We elected her why is she not supporting us????
“We” also elected Joy. It’s wrong to think you own a candidate. Joy is an elected official for all of her voters and she’s a terrific representative for the district at large.
She objectively is not. District 3 is suffering right now under mismanagement and neglect!
Joy is the best thing to happen to District 3 in the last decade.
Sockpuppet account. Not all of us wanted JOY
Joy is fantastic!
I called you “pathetic” above and I can see that my choice of terminology was wrong as it doesn’t sufficiently communicate scale or magnitude.
what? she won’t comment. She won’t cast votes.
Exactly what is it she’s doing?
Uh, no she’s godawful. All she cares about is business owner and landlord class
Wouldn’t it be great is Seattle got rid of all the businesses (taxpayers and job creators), landlords (tax payers), and wealthy people that pay taxes!!
Then we could just give non taxpayers a bunch of money from programs that are funded by… oh, wait, taxpayers.
Ah, NOW we’re getting to the heart of the issue. “I pay more taxes than other people so I should get a bigger say in how public land near me is used.” VERY classy.
The reported police actions are not illegal.
Actually there is no legal ground for the trespass warning. Case law precedence in Seattle Vs. Johnson. Good luck in court.
Calm down Derek.
“ In order for the police to make an arrest, we must have witnesses currently in the public place where the nudity is occurring who must make a complaint. These witnesses must be willing to appear in court. Also in order to prosecute, the burden is on the government to prove that the offender was knowingly aware that their conduct created alarm and offense of others.” -R. Gil Kerlikowske, former Seattle Chief of Police
https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2008/11/14/is-nudity-illegal/
So sad special interest groups have become so empowered they can claim sections of public property for their own use and mis-use. Bunch of take-to-the-streets protests inevitably to follow. But Seattle has learned from CHOP/CHAZ not to indulge what is clearly illegal. So sad, because the reasonable non-confrontational response to these merchants of outrage is to close Denny-Blaine Park for “renovations” for the summer of 2025.
You are impeding on our historic neighborhoods. There’s nothing illegal about public nudity in Seattle. Go to a sad community pool and enjoy your Applebees. The world caters to old white straight men. Leave us alone.
PREACH!
Public nudity IS legal, Jules. Denny Blaine has been used as a nude beach for decades now. What special interest groups are you describing exactly…? You don’t think extreme wealth is a special interest?
Yeah, not sure where the naked is illegal bs came from. The city holds nude events and always will.
this isn’t claiming public property for their own use, it is still a public park. there are PLENTY of beaches in seattle on lake washington, if you don’t like what goes on there, find a different park. this has historically been a nude beach and will continue to be, whether the cops try to stop it or not.
Go to a different park. It’s that simple
Your side lost Jules
The park is a Seattle park, not a Queer Park. We don’t have special parks for special interest groups.
Equal access means equal protection, and families with minors shouldn’t be subjected to indecent exposure and nudity because a small sub-segment of the populations claims the lake as their own.
Ok Karen
Why are you on a blog covering news in a historically gay neighborhood? There are plenty of straight places. Leave ours alone. Please and thank you.
Tolerance and acceptance extends to the broader community, not just select populations. It’s the essence of a civil society.
Recognizing that the general population (especially those with children under 14), want a public space to be safe and free of nudity is tolerance.
It’s also important to recognize that Denny Blaine Beach was not “historically” gay, queer, or nude. It became that way, following years of people not enforcing laws and disruptive political actions.
Moderation appears to prefer to silence me – but I grew up in Madison Valley in the 90s. I’ve been going to Denny Blaine and other smaller beaches nearby since I was an infant. There has always been nudity in my lived experience. Using the police department to clear an area to make it acceptable to small group is unbelievable.
Where are the hordes of children under that are 14 clamoring to go to this specific park, exactly? Do they just exist in your head? In any case, if you want ANY space in the city to be free of nudity, then you need to change the laws, because as of right now, it isn’t.
Seattle public parks are public. They are open to the public and everyone should feel safe there.
What about a nude person laying out to get a suntan makes you feel so unsafe, Scott?
are you insinuating that there are no places that are safe for children to enjoy lake washington in seattle? why is one park being a nude beach (perfectly legal in seattle) since the 1970s unaccepting to you? there are nude beaches all around the world. do you go to them, or do you choose to go elsewhere bc it’s not your cup of tea? you aren’t being oppressed.
There is no systematic oppression in Seattle
This is the only park in the Seattle area that is welcoming to people of all genders who want to exercise their legal right to being nude in public. It has been a historically queer and nude beach for decades. The public meeting held last year emphasized these points and people come from all over the city and beyond to enjoy this park because it is unlike anywhere else. It is too bad that some uptight wealthy neighbors are afraid of a little skin showing and choose to waste countless public and private dollars instead of minding their own business.
We all know that any kid who lives in that neighborhood likely has access to their own backyard or even pool or tennis court! Furthermore, they are welcome to visit the large family friendly parks with numerous amenities nearby (Madison and Madrona) or another public shoreline street end.
Remember, there were no issues until Stuart Sloan moved next door. He is manufacturing this issue and we should all be upset that a single dollar of taxpayer money is going toward this supposed controversy. SPD wait times are too high all over the city and they are paying multiple cops to come police this park unnecessarily. That should upset you much more than naked hippies.
Patently untrue. Cal Anderson, Madison Park Beach, multiple other “secret” beaches along the shores of Lake Washington.
Stop the gaslighting of straight people. Victimhood is not the story. The story is about equal access and fairness to ALL.
You say “victimhood isn’t the story” while also trying to paint the nonexistent children-with-nowhere-else-to-play as victims. Pick a lane. Just because you say something is gaslighting doesn’t mean it’s gaslighting, my dude. The only people that anyone is trying to remove access from is the people who have been using the park for decades. (And I’m 98% sure you are among the greedy people actively trying to do it…)
Well said.
I like how your implication that “Denny Blaine Beach was not ‘historically’ gay, queer, or nude” apparently now means that it was by default a straight beach before. Before the glaciers receded, was it also a patch of ice and rock exclusively for straight people?
Just stop this ridiculous complaining already. It’s not like the park is smack dab in the middle of the city surrounded by apartment blocks…it’s a tiny outcrop with lots of privacy and barely 3 houses nearby, all with incredibly wealthy residents who have TONS of tree canopy and space to avert their sensitive, moral gaze…
Also, not to accuse this whole thing of being sensationalist, but I’ve walked through there more than a handful of times with my dog and have never encountered nude sunbathers of any persuasion….just saying.
Every other park in Seattle is open to kids. Denny Blaine doesn’t even have a playground! Why would kids want to go there in the first place, disregarding the nudity?? Take them to any one of the DOZENS of kid-friendly parks in Seattle and let queer people have their refuge.
why “under 14” and not “under 18 or 21”?
So he doesn’t have to feel weird about clicking “teen” when visiting his Special Websites, probably…
I’d bet a decent chunk of money that the people involved in the lawsuit are in the comment section with us. Wouldn’t be shocked if this clown was among them.
Oh 100%…Chuck’s one as well. We all know who they are. How so? Because they are new, only comment on this subject and sound like it’s a well educated dog whistle. They do not sound like real people. They sound like a politician who’s worked in an office all day and lost touch with normal.
More gaslighting of citizens looking for equal access and safe spaces for families and children.
Y’all really learned the word “gaslighting” and REALLY decided to run with it, huh? This isn’t the right use.
Please find a real hobby that doesn’t involve harassing queer people using public parks. This can’t be a happy way to be living your life.
It’s also a historically straight, historically black/white/brown, and historically capitalist neighborhood
scott, probably best to cut your losses here. you are digging a very deep hole for yourself and you are wrong on every point. you are not engaging in good faith. the beach is for everyone, you are welcome there. that you feel threatened by naked bodies is a you problem.
So you think that because you’re a straight rich white capitalist you should control the park too. Got it. Glad the mask is finally off.
you have got to be joking. I grew up in Madison Valley, and have been going to the various nude beaches (secret beach, denny blaine etc etc) since I was an infant. This is incredibly pathetic behavior by the nearby (and clearly new) community, and the SPD.
Not new. Lifetime resident.
you sound new
First of all, what “special interest” group are you describing exactly? Second of all, yes, we do. What do you call a golf course?
There’s exactly one park that is used–LEGALLY–by nude sunbathers and has for decades. For anyone tat’s actually been there, the “but think of the children!” pearl-clutching is so transparently insincere, because it’s a rocky little stretch of beach that was never designed for children or geared towards families. There ARE dozens of other parks in the city that are, though.
Public parks should not be privatized or segregated for sub-groups of people to have their naked ways.
All children and families should feel safe to be in the park without the threat of indecent exposure and lewd behavior.
The park is neither private nor segregated. There are also multiple other public parks along the waterfront, some quite near this one, for the public to enjoy if they aren’t comfortable with nude people.
Now you’re trying to argue that the park is being SEGREGATED? Good lord. IT ISN’T.
I personally don’t have a dog, does that mean I should be trying to get dog parks removed from the city since they aren’t aa good place for me to host a picnic with my friends?
Naked sunbathing on the beach is neither of those things, fortunately, so it doesn’t sound like you have anything to worry about with regard to Denny Blaine.
If you don’t want public nudity to be legal in Seattle then campaign for it. Otherwise take your kids to a different park. Denny Blaine doesn’t even have a playground!
wow…okay tiger
I don’t like playing or watching soccer. So I don’t go to parks where soccer is played.
I will also observe that this is a small park in a neighborhood of wealthy people who have ample private property from which to enjoy the lake. And ample resources to travel short or long distances to enjoy other parks.
Why does everyone assume that nude sun bathing is a LGBTQ+ topic?
We must defund the police….seriously…. they spend too much time doing jack shit
Or maybe we just tell them what to focus on? I disagree with them focusing on this particular thing, but I don’t need fewer police since just yesterday I came home to literal pile of feces on my front porch.
ya ever think it’s you?
even if it is, police should respond to patently illegal behavior like selling or taking drugs – and that should be MUCH higher (orders of magnitude) than nude sunbathers
No, that failed strategy only further catapulted our city into despair.
Thankfully, cooler heads have prevailed and the City of Seattle is seeking to hire record numbers of new police officers.
Prove it. How do cops correlate to crime prevention. I’ll wait.
Cops didn’t show when I called 911 the other day after a guy threatened to stab me at the central co-op but they can make time for this.
“no Seattle law protects nudity”
Well, is there a law that makes it illegal? Or do cops and neighbors simply get to decide what is allowed?
Seattle vs. Johnson. Nudity is LEGAL. PERIOD
Anyone else notice the unbridled irony of the legal case name?
So people get trespassed for sunbathing at Denny Blaine, yet the city enables “our houseless neighbors” to set up a drug encampment in a park on Capitol Hill and swing a machete around while smoking meth on children’s playground equipment for months? Seattle is an upside down world.
this X 1000
Shocking that having a Mayor and Council bankrolled by wealthy special interest groups results in those wealthy donors’ interests taking priority over us poor (aka, not multimillionaires) folks!
If you want your concerns addressed maybe you should have thought about that before being born to parents without gobs of money.
our try at elected socialists looking out for the poors only led us further down that path, so i don’t know what the next step is?
The next step is to stop being trolled by “Scott Chortles.”
sure, the police should pay no attention to him
Holy concern troll Batman
“Once we receive more information and facts, we will have a better understanding of the situation,” the council member said.”
Oh? So this is new? How? It’s the same thing for years but Joy doesn’t want to comment? Joy doesn’t want to vote. Is there anything Joy actually does other than rubberstamp for MAGA lite?
The paradox of public nudity – it’s pretty much always the out of shape, unattractive, exhibitionist weirdos who participate.
We do not want to see you naked, and we do not want to see your weird “partner'(s) naked.
-Signed,
Everyone Else.
Well then, you should be happy that they choose to go to a specific park where you can easily avoid seeing them. Considering nudity is legal in Seattle, and people could sunbathe nude at any park without breaking any laws.
Seriously! If the current council wasn’t made up of so much purple maga I’d suggest we all just start getting naked in all the public spaces. But they would almost certainly actually outlaw it in reaction.
Current council MAGA? Hilarious.
Off topic, but yes, maga.
Inept, routinely revealing they don’t know basic requirements of their jobs? Check.
Petty tyrants publicly bickering when their egos are bruised? Check.
Petty tyrants privately creating an incredibly toxic work environment for council staff? Check.
Arrest people for voicing their opinions in a public forum? Check.
Appoint their unpopular cronies to vacated council seats (literally, multiple people who lost multiple previous elections for council seats)? Check.
Trying to pass a law exempting them from recusing themselves when they have a financial interest in the matter at hand? Check.
I could go on. But, there is a reason I called them *purple* maga. They like to call themselves Democrats but they act like authoritarians a lot of the time.
Turn your head
Signed, everyone
Famously not creepy at all to be only ok with nudity when you’re personally attracted to the people performing said nudity. And this is a comment under an article about a police response to those “out of shape, unattractive, exhibitionist weirdos” so what, do people you consider ugly not have the same rights as others? What is stopping you from simply looking away?
no wonder you named yourself noticer, i don’t see enough brain activity here to actually come to your own conclusion
So sorry that so most human beings fail to look like super models and gym rats with six packs. What a f—ing tragedy for you.
It’s pretty easy to avoid seeing nude people you don’t find aesthetically pleasing, you literally just have to avoid this singular tiny rocky beach in this specific far-flung part of the city.
what a disgusting, out of touch, and plain wrong comment. next time don’t bother.
Clean up the park, make it family friendly and fun again! It’s for everyone, so keep your junk and all in your shorts, and be civil! GTFU! WTFU!
A. Nudity is “family friendly”, it’s a neutral act, the naked body is neutral and not inherently sexual, it’s what you do with it.
B. Nudity is legal in Seattle. You can move somewhere else if you don’t like that
C. Take your kids to another park!!
Oh, sorry but you don’t have a clue. Luckily my kid has just graduated college, and there’s a nude beach just south of D/B, so go there you inconsiderate, disrespectful hypocrite!
Go to another park. Really that damn simple. Cannot be any simpler actually.
Oh, sorry but you don’t have a clue. Luckily my kid has just graduated college, and there’s a nude beach just south of D/B, so go there you inconsiderate, disrespectful hypocrite!
“Make Denny Blaine family friendly again” makes as much sense to me as “Make America Great Again” in that I have no idea when it ever actually was??
First of all, you are talking apples & oranges, so, get some perspective, then maybe we’ll pay attention to you comments, take them seriously. The park/beach is for all, so keep you shorts on and be smart, sensitive, civil and respectful to others that don’t want to be around that disrespectful behaviors and insensitive activities, exposures….
Why are scarce police resources being used like this? In Chinatown and Pioneer Square we are routinely told that calls like this (a freaking TRESPASS call that literally has no victim) are low priority. Who’s domestic violence assault had to wait for this response????
Also, that cop is WRONG.
Under our system, an act needs to be explicitly made illegal for it to be, in fact, not legal. We never, ever, ever, need to have a law “protecting” an activity. Public nudity isn’t illegal. No other law needs to be enacted. Period. This is harassment paid for by my dollars and yours.
For a moment – can we all just focus on the Ethics Bill changes in front of city council and not on the nude beach? Seriously the amount of engagement here is great, but I worry the Council is hoping we are distracted by this instead of the Ethics changes.
This park isn’t even a good park for families or kids to go to in the first place. There’s literally nothing to do other than sunbathe and almost nowhere to park. You have to park on the street and walk over and it’s not someplace you just stumble on accidentally. I’ve only been there a few times and every time I forget where it even is. I would literally forget it existed if people wouldn’t stop talking about it.
Well raising my son in that neighborhood, we walked to the that park/beach, and it’s a great place of families, kids and all residents. Are you an expert on family friendly spaces, NOT! We don’t need a playground we need convenient, clean, sober, and respectful behavior, which means NUDITY not required or a privilege for all!!
We also biked and drove, so it’s not about the parking, it’s about the entire community sharing, not just for Queer, LGBTQ. Become more aware, period Tony, and others, and learn to share, mutually reciprocate….