Nakedly, a freedom rally in Mexico City

[spindrifter]

By Sam Enriquez, Times Staff Writer
1:35 PM PDT, May 6, 2007

MEXICO CITY -- People usually strip for love or money. But Isaac Esquivel and thousands of other Mexican men and women dropped their clothes in neat piles early Sunday and pranced naked around the main plaza of this capital just for the heck of it.

New York photographer Spencer Tunick, famous for rounding up people to pose naked in cities around the world, brought his fetching artistic gimmick here. His goal was to persuade more than 7,000 Mexicans in this very Roman Catholic country to disrobe in front of God, each other and a media army perched on the roof of the downtown Holiday Inn. Several thousand people turned out.

"At first I was really nervous," said Esquivel, 25, and himself a photographer. "I kept thinking about what they tell you before you make a speech, you know, to imagine your audience naked."

He didn't have to wait long. At 6:50 a.m., the disrobing began at Tunick's signal, and, after tossing aside their workaday identities, people began running to the center of the capital's historic plaza, known as the Zocalo.

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[shenmue]

1. Yaaay!

Why didn't anybody tell me?

:patriot:

[Greeby]

2. I'm all for nudity, I'm a nudist myself

But who'd wanna lie in the fetal position on stone or concrete, usually at dawn, for some guy who insists on staying dressed :shrug: