During the Great War – World War I (1914-1918) – the Ottoman Turkish Empire instigated the very first ethnic genocide (killing, massacre, slaughter) of the twentieth century directed against the Armenian minority living within the belligerent Ottoman Empire.
At the time, the Ottomans were allied with the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Germany) against the British, French, Belgian forces and the Russian Empire.
Turkey’s affiliation with the Central Powers led to a political coup that transferred the authority of the government from the Sultan to the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), a substitute for civilian authority.
Flag of Armenia
On 24 April 1915, the CUP ordered the deportation and expulsion of the Armenian residents of the capital city, Constantinople. Soon, the order was extended throughout all the Ottoman Empire and extended to also include execution. Massive crowds, often entire villages, were forced to march into the Syrian Desert, without food and water. They were raped, robbed, starved and brutally beaten.
The deportations and deaths became massive, prevalent and real. The overthrow of the monarchy and the division of lands formerly occupied by the CUP allowed atrocities against the Armenians and others until almost midway through the 1920s. By that time, an estimated 2 million Armenians had been exterminated. The emerging Turkish country had reduced the Armenian population from 2.5 million to under 400,000.
Genocide Memorial
Tsitsernakaberd: The Armenian Genocide Memorial
The Genocide Memorial was built in 1967 on the hill of Tsitsernakaberd, just outside the capital city of Yerevan, Armenia. The Genocide Memorial Museum Institute was added later and officially opened in 1995.
Every year on 24 April, the complex hosts the National Remembrance Day Ceremony where hundreds of thousands of people line for hours to place floral tributes and to offer prayers for the victims.
Ceremonial offerings
Personal Connection:
My maternal grandfather was one-half Armenian, his mother was born in the Ottoman Empire. He remembered the Turkish soldiers congregating the Armenian people inside their village church and setting the entire structure on fire. He and several of his friends were absent from school on that day and ran off when they witnessed the soldiers assaulting the village.
A Turkish family helped them escape to safety.
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, April 27, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Bare-Volution!”
Analogy: if similar in some respects, then they must be similar in other respects.
The header photograph (above) probably needs no explanation as it is obvious that the two men are pointing to the penis on the other; therefore, they are referencing it. And as a notation, the Black man is a celebrity within the same gender loving (SGL) film industry (porn). His stage name (performance) name is Landon. We are unsure as to why they are discussing penis but on closer inspection they’re both almost identical in length and thickness, at least while flaccid (calm, relaxed).
The .gif images published below also feature Landon, today’s guest celebrity, this time sharing a sudsy bath with a different partner.
Landon and his partner’s buttocks!
Comparing all the visuals of Landon and his accomplices, perhaps they are sharing information on hygiene and/or what is known as “spring cleaning.”
The fact that Landon and his cohort appear to be clean, it is appropriate to speculate that cleaning is a similar trait in their personal routine. Given Landon’s professional status, hygiene is expected of him as part of his work preparedness.
Landon’s fascination with male anatomy!
A patronizing inference is not intended so we can safely assume the same applies to the level of cleanliness of Landon’s buddy/friend/lover/partner. Thus, the phrase “spring cleaning” in no way refers that they each bathe just once, annually, in the Spring!
Hence, the usage of “spring cleaning” may infer – hopefully – to the routine of maintaining a tidy, pristine and safe environment (body, living space, etc.) by both men, individually and/or jointly.
Footnote #1: No disrespect to Landon nor to his friend. Aaron, my spouse, and I both appreciate his DVD scenes as well as his personal appearance. Just a “spring speculation” on an uncertain phrase and what it really means!
Footnote #2: Since we’ve identified the analogy here, perhaps the time has arrived to rename the title of this posting. A suggestion of something more accurate and descriptive. Maybe: Bare Spring Cleaning? We are, after all, bare practitioners!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for today, April 24, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Armenian Genocide Day!”
Author’s Note #2: My maternal grandfather was Armenian by birth and after his entire family was brutally murdered by the Turkish extremists he was exiled to Greece.
Great and Holy Easter celebrates and commemorates the triumph of good over evil and of love over hate. The Resurrection is the promise of eternal life!
Background:
The Eastern Churches (Armenian, Chaldean, Coptic, Orthodox, etc.) follow the older calendar effective during the time of Jesus. The Western Churches follow a revised calendar thus the two different dates for most holy days.
Great Friday, 10 April, 2026:
The epitaphios procession through the churches.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church today is known as Great Friday, the Day of Sorrow. In the liturgical year, it commemorates the last day of Jesus alive here on earth and the sorrows he endured: the beating at the pillars of the Jerusalem Temple, the crowning of thorns, and having to carry his cross and then his crucifixion. When he expired, his body was placed in a tomb that belonged to St. Joseph of Arimathea.
Annually on this day, believers remember the agonies and pains that Jesus experienced. The shroud of the icon of the Crucifixion is placed in a tomb that is carried through the church in the epitaphios (tomb). As it is carried, the faithful chant the Lamentations hymns that recount the events of Great Friday. In the churches inside Greece, the epitaphios is bourne by active members of the military: army. navy or air corps.
After sunset on Friday evening, there is a candlelight service in churches where the icons have been covered in mourning. The Divine Liturgy is not sung again until midnight on Easter morning. The prayers offered reinforce the sadness and suffering of the occasion.
The Great Lent:
Anticipating the Glorious Resurrection, the six weeks before the arrival of the Holy Feast are spent in a period known as the Great Lent – a time of extreme fasting and sincere prayer. Growing up, my parents would direct the discussion topics to the importance of faith, prayer and service to all in our lives, our obligation to our church (Greek Orthodox) and to our family.
The fasting aspect of Great Lent involves abstinence from all meat, seafood, dairy products and eggs. The focus is on receiving nutrition naturally from nature’s resources. The fast is in effect during the entire season of the Great Lent.
The Great and Holy Easter!
The only offering of the Divine Liturgy (the principal prayer service in Holy Orthodox Churches) is always at Midnight on the Feast of Pascha (Easter). This allows for an entire day of celebration and feasting. The service begins outside the church (weather permitting) when the candles of the Resurrection are lit, and the priest leads the entire congregation to circle the church three times. While processing, the people sing the Resurrection hymns (Christ is Risen! Indeed, He is Risen!).
After the third encirclement, the procession then moves inside the church as the deacons uncover the holy icons, and believers light candles and offer prayers. The Resurrection hymns continue as the clergy, deacons, and servers line up for the offering of the Divine Liturgy.
The traditional Easter greetings!
Among all the popular treats for the Easter feasting, the most recognized is the egg which also represents the rebirth of the spring season. The hard-boiled egg is dyed red to recall the blood lost by Jesus during the crucifixion. The Lenten Fasting removed the availability of eggs from people’s diets but gave them notoriety as an Easter treat!
In the early hours of Easter morning, following the conclusion of the Resurrection Liturgy, the faithful exit the ecclesiastical sanctuary of the churches and encounter baskets and trays of traditional dyed Easter eggs ready to be consumed. The festive spirit of the holy day continues with all participating in the classical custom of greetings.
Holding the egg in the palm of the hand, one salutes another with the phrase, “Christos anesti!” (Christ is risen!). The other responds: “Alithos anesti!” (Indeed He is risen!). The two then collide their open-palmed eggs together with the victor emerging as the one with their egg-shell uncracked or intact. Multiple eggs are devoured in this manner and the Great fast of Lent is officially over!
Families – and sometimes multiple households – after the greetings and egg-breaking hurry home for an early morning Easter meal!
Tsoureki: Greek Sweet Easter Bread!
Tsoureki:
The widely and wildly delicious Easter delicacy that is a favourite of all – both the religious Greeks and those who are indifferent to faith. My spouse, Aaron, is the chef of our household and has my paternal yaya’s (grandmother’s) recipe for this special bread. He is the culinary commander and even though he never met any of my grandparents, he has spiritually inherited yaya’s ability, skill and talent in tsoureki baking. My siblings extol his exceptional perfection of her triumph! Aaron has even framed her handwritten recipe (in Greek) and it hangs in a place of honour in our kitchen!
Yaya’s tsoureki recipe generally takes approximately 18 – 19 hours to mix, prepare and to rise and over an hour to bake. After years of experience, Aaron has not been able to alter the process.
The tsoureki (in my family custom) is served with the main feasting that occurs in the late afternoon on Easter Sunday. One loaf usually serves about twenty-four (24) people and multiple loaves are served.
Kala pascha! Happy Easter!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Old Faithful!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, April 13, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Budding Season!”
Francois:
Francois is excited to have some of Aaron’s tsoureki again!
And he answered: “Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you find in them a harness and a chain.
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your rainment?
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is the wind.
Some of you say,
“It is the north wind who has woven the clothes to wear.”
But shame was his loom,
and the softening of the sinews was his thread.
And when his work was done he laughed in the forest.
Forget not that modesty is for a shield
against the eye of the unclean.
And when the unclean shall be no more
what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?
And forget not that the earth delights
to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran, 1913, author, philosopher, poet and visual artist!
In this poetic offering, Kahlil Gibran, shares with us his express appreciation of being bare (clothes free, naked, nude) and his distaste for the concealment of the human body with clothing. The “father” of bare practitioners!
He was born on 6 January 1883 in Bsharri, Lebanon, within what was then part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. He emigrated to the United States with his mother and two sisters. He died in New York City on 10 April 1931, at the age of 48 years old.
In On Clothes he unashamedly extols his admiration and devotion to both the concept and practice of being completely bare, nakedness and natural at a time when the very idea of clothes freedom (nudity) was rarely discussed, shared or written about in “polite” – proper – society. We all, as today’s bare practitioners, owe to Kahlil Gibran an enormous debt of gratitude for enlightening our world to the magic and the majesty of being nude alone or socially with others. Without the beauty of his praise, this world would indeed be a very bland and drab world to reside upon!
Self portrait of Kahlil Gibran by Kahlil Gibran!
Gibran’s early death, due to severe liver infection brought on by his heavy consumption of alcohol, denied him the chance to witness the emergence of the same gender loving (SGL: bisexual or gay) culture that surfaced following World War II (1939 – 1945). Since his demise, there has been significant speculation about his own sexual preference. He had a very close woman supporter while living in New York City. However, their relationship was strictly platonic.
Aaron, my spouse and I both feel that the appeal and the fascination of nakedness is universally represented through the efforts and the works of Kahlil Gibran. His Middle East heritage instilled him with the desire and respect for clothes freedom that he brought with him when he emigrated to the United States. On Clothes has become an inspiring verse for clothes off!
We believe that the arrival of springtime brings the anticipation of being totally natural (bare) while enjoying nature. Gibran’s On Clothes reinforces those sentiments while reminding all of us of the awesome beauty of nakedness together!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Old Faithful!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, April 6, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Bare Celebrity Series #8: XL the Chef!”
Strippers!
In honour of Kahlil Gibran’s “On Clothes” we’re taking off our clothes!
Today, 25 March, is the Feast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos (Mother of God). This is when the Archangel Gabriel appeared to St. Mary and told her she was to be the Mother of Jesus. This is a major feast day in the Greek Orthodox Church and also marks the day that the uprising against the Ottoman Turks occupying Greece was launched that led to the creation of the independent Kingdom of Greece in 1821. This feast day began the insurrection when Bishop Germanos reared the flag of revolt over the Monastery of Agia Lavra in the Peloponnese with the cry: “Freedom or Death!” which was adopted as the motto of the revolt.
The government of the newly liberated Haiti was the very first country to recognize Greece. This happened in 1821, barely 6 months after the struggle commenced. Thank you, Haitians, for your confidence!
A Royal Guard, wearing the ivzani, raising the flag of Greece!
The Ottoman Turks were supported during the Greek rebellion by the North African Turkish dependent states of Algeria, Egypt, Tripolitania and Tunis. These auxiliary troops were frequently defeated by the Greek locals who were often armed with inferior firearms and the majority only had farming tools in their defense.
The Treaty of Adrianople in 1829 guaranteed the independence of the Kingdom of Greece by the United Kingdom, France and Imperial Russia. This marked the end of almost 400 consecutive years of Turkish Ottoman occupation and oppression. In 1830, the independent sovereign Kingdom of Greece was recognized by the London Protocol. In 1832, The Treaty of Constantinople was signed by the Turkish sultan defining the borders of the Greek kingdom and established Prince Otto of Bavaria as the first King of Greece. He was later replaced by a prince of Denmark who established the Greek Royal Family.
Modern depiction of an ancient Greek warrior!
Footnote #1: Despite the existence of numerous images showing otherwise, there is very little proof that the ancient Greeks fought bare/naked. Multiple contemporary depictions indicate that they did, very little historical evidence exists to support this as fact. The ancient Greeks were very casual and relaxed with public nakedness but while at war is difficult to presume. There are the dual concerns of personal safety and the production of offspring. Greeks were very supportive of clothes freedom but the ideal has some limitations once conflict is introduced.
The fact that helmets and shields were utilized as protection tools confirms the reality that conflict was understood and that steps were needed in order to safeguard the future.
Map of Greece!
The current territory of Greece. The Dodecanese Islands are the most recent addition to the Greek nation. They were ceded by Italy to Greece in 1947 following Italy’s surrender during World War II. They are the eastern islands coloured green.
The Flag of Greece!
During the rebellion of freedom against the Ottoman Turks, there was not one banner, flag or standard that represented all of the struggle. Many local militias each had their own banner for their municipality or military unit. The adaptation of the insignia for the state occurred after the Ottomans acknowledged the independence of Greece. The modern flag is offered above.
St. George is the guardian saint of Greece and the emblem of his cross is the upper left of the flag. The Cross of St. George also, by law, adorns the top of every pole that supports the nation’s banner (flag). The traditional colours of Greece, blue and white, are the same as the flag and represent the affiliation of the seas and Greek life.
Happy Feast of the Annunciation! Happy Greece!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Old Faithful!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, March 27, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Time: Go Commando!”
Our Bad!
Jogging on my journey to celebrate the rebirth of Greece!
The header image (above) is one of the original images that my spouse and I utilized for our original wordpress.com blog, actually entitled Guys Without Boxers. It was published here from late 2012 until the week that we married on 15 August 2015. It was removed from publication by wordpress.com without any notification, reason or explanation whatsoever.
Background:
One year ago, during March 2025, my spouse, Aaron, and I announced here on then simply ReNude Pride that we were planning a renovation for this site. A proposed redesign project that would acknowledge and also involve the inclusion of our initial blogging effort here on wordpress.com. Our plans were to complete the entire project during the month of March. Little did we know about all the strategies involved – the entire project took almost two months to finish and we both agreed no new undertakings – ever!
A secondary photographic header for our original site!
A Friendly Reminder:
In the unlikely chance that someone is here by mistake, Aaron and I are a same gender loving (SGL) married couple who are interracial – he’s African-Canadian and I’m Greek – and were both proudly and publicly advocates of our preferred nakedness lifestyle. In a brief summary, we’re gay nudists and this blog is now officially entitled: ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! and we celebrate that reality here as often and as visually as possible!
Our initial blog here on wordpress.com was named “Guys Without Boxers!” and our current blog proclaims that heritage. Our “boxer freedom/underwear freedom” campaign encourages the acceptance of our bare practitioner community and culture. SGL nakedness!
Footnote: When putting on our clothes, underwear (boxers, briefs, jock strap, bikini, etc.) is the first garment item to be donned. Hence, no underwear implies no clothes so we must be naked!
Therefore, if you’re here by accident or have no interest whatsoever in either of our obvious reasons for publication, you may want to exit here, now!
A TOE*
TOE = treasure of evolution
One of the surprising results of our renovation undertaking project was our public acknowledgment of the fact that we – Aaron and I – as a married couple do indeed watch adult entertainment DVDs (gay porn) and that we are at least familiar with their cast (performers). This public revelation was a part of this site’s evolution from the past and into our journey into today.
Another result of our remodel is the current popular series offered here “bare celebrities.” Like many surprises, it wasn’t planned, it just happened – totally unpredicted! Perhaps there is a tidbit of psychic truth in the adage the truth shall set you free!
A real treasure of evolution is our expansion of signatures at the conclusion of post entries here. Again, it happened without planning yet it afforded another opportunity for uniqueness for ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! More proof that we are indeed without any clothing except our shoes!
In drafting today’s post entry, Aaron approached me with another “bare relic” for our offering of signatures (above): one of Francois Sagat jogging comfortably (clothes free) along a beach and with a textile (clothed) audience of one. Now an additional signature option featuring a popular bare practitioner who just conveniently appears jogging barefoot: completely and totally with body freedom and no excuses required!
Exactly the way we should all be: comfortable, confident and proud of ourselves just for being what and who we naturally are as bare practitioners! A pleasant and productive commemorating community and culture of accomplishment of just simply being ourselves with no condemnation, fear, guilt, intimidation, judgment or shame!
USA: Time Change Sunday!
A reminder to all that the transitional month of March continues the tradition of officially changing the time zones with the conversion to daylight savings time (DST) this upcoming Sunday, 8 March 2026 at precisely 2:00 a.m.
In whatever time zone one lives, at 2:00 a.m., the clock, timepiece, watch, etc., advances to 3:00 a.m. Many digital devices will automatically reflect the change. Some will need a manual adjustment. Most analog devices require a manual adaptation. Check your owner’s manual for verification.
It makes no difference where on your body you wear your watch, remember to adjust your timepiece and check it upon rising on Sunday! Otherwise, you’ll be apologizing for your tardiness to everyone all day long!
Rest assured, our days do not actually become longer. This ritual just offers us all an “extra” hour of daylight before sunset each day. Another “springtime initiation” that happens annually!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, March 9, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Bare Celebrity Series #7: Practice = Perfection!”
March forward! Progress! March, the month that encourages our replenishment of ourselves and our renude (renewed) progress as both an individual, as a community and as a culture! Bare practitioners resolute in our quest for recognition and respect!
March forward! Progress! March, here in the Northern Hemisphere, is our traditional “transitional” month! Important, memorable and necessary as this is the month that marks our transition (change) from the dreadfully depressing and dull days of winter into the joys of spring!
Pace yourselves!
Due to this ecstatic progress, “March forward!” is a proverbial useless command. Some march, some run, some stroll and some saunter and then there are those clueless ones who aimlessly wander along, set in their own pace. What is critical is that we’re all moving together – in both our nakedness and also in the same direction!
March f-o-r-w-a-r-d! Trust me, no one wants to awaken tomorrow morning moving closer to winter than spring. F-o-r-w-a-r-d! Progress!
Keep your eyes open!
During this month of transition, the routine of daylight savings time (DST) occurs annually. The final result unfortunately is not any reward of extra time but simply a “gift” of longer days of sunlight due to time adjustments.
March also delivers the official arrival of the season of springtime every year! This includes our excitement about the fading frigid temperatures outside and the renewed of warmer temperatures in our natural environment! This annual event is honoured in our outdoor world with the return of foliage to our forests and woodlands as springtime blooms and blossoms all around us.
Flexing his muscles!
Here at ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! we are encouraged to practice the custom and habit of Spring Resolutions with the arrival of the rejuvenating season instead of the barren and burdensome drudgery of new year’s resolutions!
The arrival of springtime is welcoming to change and conducive to progress. The new year arrival at the onset of the winter season is merely too depressing an atmosphere!
Bare swimmers!
Bonus Reward:
The month of March also brings those of us residing in the Northern Hemisphere closer to eager arrival of the summer season and our fanciful practice of skinny dipping (swimming nude) in bodies of water offered in our natural world!
Ancient Greek warriors!
Triple Bonus Rewards!
March additionally offers the Feast of the Annunciation of the Theotokos (Mother of God)! The day that heralded the uprising against the Turkish Ottoman Empire and led to the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece by uniting the crown, the church and the state!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys WithoutBoxers!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, March 6, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “One Year Later!”
Our bare celebrity today is the amazing model, male escort and porn star, Venezuelan-born, Gio Dell! His primary area of service is New York City, New York, USA. Although, if the money isright, he can be flown wherever he is needed!
Gio is posing in the outdoor pool as he hosts today’s post entry here on ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! His bare buttocks proclaim his nakedness and one of his obvious assets!
He’s joined by his step-brother in real life, Armani, who is also a model, male escort and porn actor. Both are very public about their same gender love (SGL) identity and their being nakedness advocates.
Step-brothers Gio Dell (left) and Armani!
They are jointly offering a review (below) of our expanded signature feature here that we use to conclude our postings here.
Old Faithful:
Our original running and long featured image! Good man and good job!
Splashman:
He’s our first recent addition and our very first to be offered in and/or near the water!
Our Bad:
His name is special because Aaron and I both forgot about him and/or misplaced his image from a couple of years ago! Our fault, our mistake!
Francois:
Francois is the only name that we have to offer because retired gay adult film industry actor, Francois Sagat is exactly who he is in real life!
Strippers:
The only signature to feature buttocks as opposed to a full frontal view. So named because they are removing their underwear and discarding it across their shoulders!
Hopefully, Aaron and I can cope and manage the added task of recalling our expanded listing and all of our options!
Thank you both, Gio and Armani for hosting today’s post entry here. They’ll both return here to host there second part: the upcoming Preview! planned to be published towards the end of March, 2026!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, February 27, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “A Penny For My Thoughts!”
Author’s Note #2: I’m not going to repeat a listing again. My concluding signature will be “Old Bad” solo today!
Elizabeth Jennings Graham was born Elizabeth Jennings in New York City in March 1827 (date unknown). She was destined to become a teacher, an early civil rights activist and organist at her church. By 1854, she was a teacher at the private African Free School.
By the 1850s, the horse-drawn streetcar on rails was a common transportation option in New York City. They were operated by private companies and their access was often barred by race.
On Sunday, 16 July 1854, Elizabeth Jennings was going to work as organist for the First Coloured Congregational Church. She boarded a streetcar of the Third Avenue Railroad Company. The conductor ordered her off. She refused and the conductor and a police officer ejected her off the streetcar. She was injured and her clothes were soiled and torn.
The incident was reported by Frederick Douglass in his newspaper and resulted in an organized movement by Black New York City residents to end racial discrimination on streetcars.
Her father filed a lawsuit against the Third Avenue Railroad Company and the conductor in Brooklyn, where the company office was located. She was represented by the law firm of Culver, Parker and Arthur. Her case was argued by the firm’s 24 year-old junior partner, Chester A. Arthur, a future president of the USA. He filed the suit in 1854 and in 1855, the court ruled in her favour.
The judge, William Rockwell, determined “Coloured persons if sober, well-behaved and free from disease, had the same rights as others and could neither be excluded by any rules of the company, nor by force nor violence.” The jury awarded Jennings damages in the amount of $250 (roughly equivalent to approximately $8,400 currently). The very next day, the Third Avenue Railroad Company ordered all of their streetcars desegregated.
A century before Rosa Parks gained fame in refusing to move to the back of the bus, Elizabeth Jennings Graham attained justice in fighting for her rights on transportation. What happened in Brooklyn, New York City, occurred before the US Civil War ended the practice of slavery in the USA!
Nice job, Elizabeth Jennings Graham!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Wednesday, February 25, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Bonus Post: Bare Celebrity Review!”
For decades, the myth has persisted that Black people never engaged in nor enjoyed nakedness and same-gender attraction until they were taught by White people. This supposedly didn’t happen until after the Stonewall Inn Riots (SIR) occurred in June 1969. Up until then, an intended derogatory word – queer – was often used to describe us. After SIR, we “stepped-up” and proudly “owned” (acknowledged) the word. Now, we’re queer and we’re still here!
Together!
An historical vintage gallery of being both bare and queer – ourselves – before the SIR even happened!
The hairstyles of those in the pictures featured here are indicative of the period of the late 1940s through the early 1960s. The fact that these photographs survived prove that long before the Stonewall riots, the Black community had knowledge of and persons who preferred same gender love and their nakedness.
These images dispel the mistaken beliefs that African Americans were unaware of bisexual and gay natures among men and the popular myth that they were oblivious towards nudity. Communal nakedness while in the shower were unavoidable but social nudity was a conscious choice and frequently happened.
Long before the SIR brought the struggle for equality and freedom to our communities, we did have times when we enjoyed our sexual freedom and our body and clothes freedom. Our people were not as insulated and as isolated as many would have us to believe.
Relaxing together, bare and no guilt about who they really are! The images published here are vital visual parts of our story! Not only as African Americans, but also as bare practitioners – same gender loving and naturists/nudists!
Happy Black History Month, 2026!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, February 23, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Ms. Unknown Discovery!”
ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! 