The 2026 Election Results Are Announced! We’re So Happy, We have To Be Bare!
Everyone we voted for and all the proposed constitutional amendments were approved! For my spouse, Aaron and I, our choices were identical. The only difference being the passports we used for identification!
Question #2: Marriage equality; interracial and same gender: Yes! Passed!
Question #3: Restore prisoner voting rights after incarceration: Yes! Passed!
As to which one of us was the first to discard his clothing upon learning of the election results? It was likely a tie as we were both thrilled! This outcome sends a very important message to the felon-in-chief: the decency and respectability of the constituents of the Commonwealth of Virginia will prevail!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
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Author’s Note: The next post entry here is tomorrow, Friday, November 6, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Friday Footnote: Proof!”
31 October, annually, is the day of the Halloween festivity here in the USA! Here, this festive participant has painted his buttocks as a “pumpkin face.”
Bottoms-up! elevated!
The end of October and the weather outside is becoming colder as autumn approaches the winter season. If confined inside four walls because of chills, elevating buttocks in honour of bottoms-up! is encouraged!
Bottoms-up! duo!
Two bottoms-up! proudly displayed in one picture! Who could ask for anything more?
Exhausted!
Our man above is too tired to adjust himself! He’s lying upside-down in his recliner seat and totally without energy!
Bottoms-up! trio!
A haunted trio in the afternoon sun on Halloween!
Naked hugs!
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Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, November 2, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Election, 2026!”
A smiling pumpkin face adorning his buttocks! A Halloween greeting from both Aaron, my spouse, and I to all of you! We’re not really enthusiastic Halloween celebrants, but we both know that many bare practitioners are excited about this particular occasion. Our best wishes to all of you!
A “live” pumpkin parade stalking down this special sidewalk! They’re both offering their complete nakedness along with their seasonal masks! Fortunately, this special season encourages us all to conceal our identities and to have fun and a good time!
He’s adorned himself as a “pumpkin head!” No other disguise is necessary as his bare practitioner affiliation is confirmed and duly noted by us all! All Halloween guests beware: his pumpkin ghost has yet to appear!
Flying through the air with the greatest haunting breeze available! His pumpkin adorns his backpack as his broom transports him from one Halloween event to another!
Have a happy and safe Halloween!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
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Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, October 30, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “A Penny For My Thoughts!”
Strippers!
Halloween is naked on the beach and all along the shore!
In preparation of the upcoming Halloween observance (31 October, annually) a look at suggestions to retain our bare practitioner identity and still appear a part of the Halloween social custom.The Halloween season provides an opportunity for costumed social gatherings and this upcoming weekend, which is the final weekend before the occasion happens is time for many to host their own costumed events!
Halloween is traditionally a time for costume wearing and fun. Nonsensical spirited occasion that emerged as the general population sought a means to escape the western churches custom of honouring the deceased on All Soul’s Day and All Saint’s Day – the goodness of humanity and the sacredness of human life. The costume culture grew in popularity as persons sought ways to anonymously express themselves in a way that originally would keep them free from reproach.
This soon became associated with both horror and humour as well as frightening others into avoiding evil actions by the offering of treats (candies) to “save” their souls (well-being). It is now an obsession in many communities as participants vie to represent terror and life-threatening instances that often reflect crime and tortuous enterprising instead of humour, fantasy and fun!
The elaborate costuming now offers another fashion trend that encourages revelers to continue to conceal or to “cover-up” their bodies beneath these extravagant costumes. Many argue that this presents an ideal situation for bare practitioners to celebrate being themselves by hiding their nakedness and joining in the frivolous fun of adorning ourselves with the fabulous costumes!
Since a majority of us of the body and clothes freedom community must comply with “dress” (clothes wearing) codes on a daily basis for legal and professional compliance, the use of a costume – especially in a social engagement – is a most inconvenient and restrictive reminder of our repetitive surrender of our joy of our nakedness. Conformity too often is oppression magnified and extremely frustrating!
My spouse, Aaron, and I offer this post entry here on ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! in an effort to enlighten the Halloween enthusiasts among our bare practitioner community and culture these alternative options and possibilities for their horrific and specific pleasure. The trio of “the wild man” (cave man) clubber offered in the introduction of this posting involves the body painting of our nudity without concealing or disguising our pride and pleasure in our nakedness.
We’re employing colour and imagination in addition to enjoying, promoting and relaxing in our nakedness! A live testimony to our creativity and to our social nature! Using these depictions as an example, we encourage all to mimic (copy) this scenario or to improvise with a more personal favourite! The body painting featured here requires the material body paint but does not require intense artistic skill!
Another idea is the utilization of body paint in the designing of a message that proclaims our confidence in our bare practitioner status and our natural (naked) state-of-being! Announcing our enthusiasm and joy in our public display of our body and of ourselves! Simply: us being us! Join with us in our clothes freedom! Join with us and receive your due reward: a kiss!
While the body paint remains available, we can focus attention on our natural freedom and commemorate our natural (anatomical) ability to flaunt our disregard for conformity and a restrictive society! We can embrace our origin! We all entered this world without guilt or shame, why should we even be bothered by any false sense of embarrassment now?
The plentiful supply of body paint during this Halloween time of the year allows us to decorate ourselves with the colours of our rainbow heritage and incorporate not only our comfort in our nakedness but our pride in our same gender loving (SGL) character as well!
As authentic bare practitioners, we are equally comprised of the benefits of our clothes freedom and our sexuality heritages!
Essentially, we’re all qualified as Guys Without Boxers! no matter what style of underwear we prefer – or if we wear any at all! Our contentment, happiness and satisfaction is exemplified in our basic celebration of us being ourselves: nakedness and same gender loving!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
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Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, October 26, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Pumpkin Party!”
Continuing our examination of the USA observance as October being GLBTQ+ history month. This post entry introduces the various visual banners that have and currently are symbolic of the growth of our movement for civil rights and equality not only within the USA but also throughout the world.
The Lambda:
The graphic flag represented above is the Greek letter “lambda.” This designation as representative of the rapidly emerging gay rights movement was determined by Tom Doerr, a professional graphic artist and one of the founding members of the hastily assembled Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). Doerr chose this symbol because in chemistry, it was a sign for “catalyst.”
Other GAA members argue that Doerr selected the lambda because it symbolized a complete exchange of energy – synergy – the idea that the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. In December 1969, when the lambda was adopted, it was less than six months following the Stonewall Inn riots (SIR), the birth of the modern gay liberation movement.
In 1974, the lambda was officially adopted by the International Gay Rights Congress at their meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. It immediately became the symbol for gay and lesbian civil rights throughout the world. Unfortunately, a large number of persons interpreted the lambda as applicable to males only.
The Pink Triangle:
The pink triangle flag is a reclaimed (renewed, renude) GLBTQ+ symbol. It was originally used in National Socialist (Nazi) concentration camps – under the Third Reich (Adolph Hitler) – to identify inferior “homosexual” men. Over time, it evolved into the representation of contempt, oppression, and persecution. Lesbians were labelled as “asocial” and identified with a solid black triangle.
In the 1970s, GLBTQ+ activists resurrected the pink triangle on a black field (background) as a positive image of self-identity and a protest of homophobia. This resurrection was largely accepted throughout the world.
At the end of World War II, many of the men imprisoned for homosexuality by the Nazis were kept in prisons instead of concentration camps and re-incarcerated by the Western Allies. This was due to the fact that Nazi laws banning homosexuality were not repealed until 1968.
Rudolf Brazda, the last known concentration camp survivors interred because of homosexuality, died on 3 August 2011, at the age of 98.
In 2002, the government of Germany finally issued official pardons to all gay men who were convicted by the Nazis. Later that same year, an apology was reluctantly issued publicly to all gay men who were imprisoned by the Nazis. The belated reasoning was justified because the government was unable to apologize for an act that was actually illegal.
The Rainbow Flag:
The Rainbow Flag and author!
The Rainbow Flag representing the entire gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer + (GLBTQ+) communities and cultures was first publicly raised on 25 June 1978 in San Francisco, California, USA, in the United Nations Plaza in honour of gay pride at the 1978 San Francisco Freedom Day parade. The original flag consisted of eight coloured stripes was designed by Gilbert Baker and hand-stitched and dyed with the help of volunteers and friends Lynn Segerblum, James McNamara, Glenne McElhinny, Joe Duran and Paul Langlotz.
The eight stripes original was soon revised to six stripes with pink (symbolizing “sex”) and turquoise (for “art” and “magic”) eliminated as the colours weren’t available in flag fabric. Baker conceived the flag would empower his “tribe” and that a “rainbow of humanity” motif would represent the movement’s diversity.
The Rainbow Flag revised design was welcome globally and rapidly became accepted as a GLBTQ+ icon.
A Rainbow Flag with two joined male genetic emblems!
The Progress Rainbow Flag:
The Progress Pride Flag, University of Nottingham!
The Progress Pride Flag was developed by non-binary artist and designer Daniel Quasar in 2018. Based on Gilbert Baker’s 1978 Rainbow flag, Quasar’s redesign celebrates the diversity of the GLBTQ+ community and culture and encourages a more inclusive community and cultural acceptance and manifestation. The Progress Pride version has increased the representation of discriminated minority identities covered by the GLBTQ+ umbrella.
The Progress Pride Flag!transgender and
Quasar’s creation adds black and brown stripes (representing peoples of colour) and light blue, pink and white stripes (representing transgender and non-binary persons) in the shape of an arrow on the left of original Rainbow Flag field. In Daniel Quasar’s own words “…the arrow points to the right to show forward movement and illustrates that progress towards inclusivity still needs to be made.”
The black stripe has a double meaning. In addition to persons who are Black, it is also intended for “those who are living with HIV/AIDS and the prejudice and stigma surrounding them and those who have been lost to the disease.”
The Progress Pride flag was an immediate success. On the evening of 6 June 2018, Quasar posted the design on social media and woke up the next day to find that it had gone viral.
GLBTQ+ safe space!
The above logo, a pink triangle surrounded by a green circle or displayed within a green field represents a “safe space” or comfort zone for GLBTQ+ persons. This visual image delivers an inclusive message and representation for a variety of individuals. This designation offers a nonjudgmental environment and welcoming atmosphere to all.
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
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Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Friday, October 23, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Prevention Proposals!”
Our Bad!
Jogging by myself lacks companionship but reduces chances of disease transmission!
For the remainder of this month, October, there will be some minor variations in the publishing schedule here at ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! This is due to the additional professional responsibilities that I have been assigned and a professional conference that I must attend – I am actually presenting a workshop for attendees that lasts three days. Actually, that conference is in November, so please be attentive to the upcoming publication announcements at the conclusion of each post entry!
What is today?
Columbus Day:
Legislation to create Columbus Day as a federal holiday was signed by then-president Lyndon Baines Johnson on 28 June 1968, to be effective beginning in 1971. It became part of the Monday holiday observance and is now traditionally the second Monday in October. As a federal holiday, it is observed by the USA government but it is not binding in all states.
The honouring of the holiday is declining throughout the country and is rapidly being replaced by IndigenousPeople’s Day. This commemoration pays tribute to the original people living here and who have no recognition for the hardships and suffering they endured once the Europeans began immigration here.
Many municipalities have begun dismantling statues erected of Columbus. For years he was credited with “discovering” when actually he merely landed here after the Vikings had visited and settled here centuries earlier.
Happy Indigenous People’s Day!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
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Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Thursday, October 15, 2026, and the Proposed topic is: “Spirit Day, 2026!”
This observance was originally designed to encourage all to confidently, honestly, openly and proudly acknowledge their sexuality (sexual orientation)!
Recently, some bare practitioners have adopted elements of this strategy for urging all to acknowledge their affinity for nakedness!
It really makes little or no difference the reasoning for our “coming out!” What is important is the message that we share with others. We are accepting and are comfortable with being the person that we truly are regardless of what we may or may not be wearing or who we really are attracted to or love.
National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is a gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer + (GLBTQ+) awareness day in support of all persons being honestly, openly and publicly what and who they really are without any embarrassment, fear, guilt and/or shame!
The original concept of National Coming Out Day was to make the personal identity a very political identity! The emphasis being that the basic form of activism as everyone “coming out” (acknowledging) their sexual orientation to family, friends and colleagues and living life as a confident bisexual, gay or lesbian person.
The term “coming out” references that for generations the GLBTQ+ community has lived “in the closet” (secretly) in order to avoid arrest and punishment (or worse). “Coming out” meant going public, tearing open the proverbial closet door!
Remember: closets are for clothes, only!
The fact that homophobia (fear of same gender loving persons) thrives in an atmosphere of distrust, fear, ignorance, and silence encourages separation between “us” and “them.” Once people learned that they have loved ones and friends who are GLBTQ+ they are less likely and less willing to remain associated with persons who are homophobic and/or have repressive inclinations. Instead, they become more accepting, tolerant and understanding.
Why the 11 October date?
The first observance of National Coming Out Day was the actual first anniversary of the 1987 March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights. It was the first-ever massive gathering of bisexual, gay, and lesbian people in the nation’s capital!
The date also marked the first public display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt – in its entirety! This display took place on the National Mall between the U.S. Capital and the White House.
First NCOD Logo designed by Keith Haring!
Keith Haring
4 May 1958 – 16 February 1990
Keith Haring was an American graffiti artist who designed the classic icon for the very first National Coming Out Day (above). His pop art emerged in New York City subculture in the 1980s. Haring was openly gay and a frequent message in his early art was safe sex. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1984 and with AIDS in the autumn of 1988. During the last years of his life he used his art to generate activism and awareness about HIV/AIDS.
Remember to Remind!
For those of us who have already boldly and with courage identified ourselves as GLBTQ+ community and culture, today, as National Coming Out Day is a prime opportunity for us all to publicly renew (renude) our identity. We can remind others of our comfort and satisfaction in being ourselves within the community and culture to which we belong. Wave a rainbow banner, wear a GLBTQ+ T-shirt and/or support a GLBTQ+ business. Our day to confidently show our affiliation!
If our nakedness is an equal component of what and who we are, we can body paint or otherwise adorn our skin with exposing our confidence and pride in our uniqueness! Our celebration has no hesitation and no limits!
As for advocating for us all to “come out” in our nakedness, nothing surpasses our being bare – without clothes! Our state of body and clothes freedom proclaims itself without any language or words necessary! Likewise, the theme, “closets are for clothes” is both applicable and appropriate in promoting nudity as it is in announcing our GLBTQ+ identity!
As bare practitioners, we have a distinct advantage in bestowing equality to our coming out observance. Appearing in our nakedness with our GLBTQ+ identity body painted, written or otherwise publicly visible leaves no doubt in anyone’s mind as to how or where we owe our affinity and/or allegience!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, October 12, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Variances!”
Splashman!
Splashing his dual identity for us all to celebrate!
Below is a poem commemorating the colours of autumn. At the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, we had to memorize the poem to strengthen our knowledge and skills in the English language. All these years later the poem remains a memory.
My identical twin brother, Alex, and I are unable to this day understand all the words or intentions of this particular poem. The plants are alien to Virginia and the ideals expressed are unfamiliar. Unfortunately, others in our class at the residential school felt similar. Despite this incomprehension, our teacher was otherwise exceptional and one of my favourites.
October’s Bright Blue Weather
by Helen Hunt Jackson
O suns and skies and clouds of June,
and flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October’s bright blue weather.
When loud the bumblebee makes haste,
Belated, thriftless, vagrant,
And goldenrod is dying fast,
And lanes with grapes are fragrant;
When gentians roll their fringes tight
To save them for the morning,
And chestnuts fall from satin burrs
Without a sound of warning;
When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone walls
Are leaves of woodbine twining;
When all the lovely wayside things
Their white-winged seeds are sowing,
And in the fields still green and fair,
Late aftermaths are growing;
When springs run low, and on the brooks,
In idle golden freighting,
Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush
Of woods, for winter waiting;
When camrades seek sweet country haunts,
By twos and threes together,
And count like misers, hour by hour,
October’s bright blue weather.
O suns and skies and flowers of June,
Count all your boasts together,
Love loveth best of all the year
October’s bright blue weather.
I can – with all honesty – not recall another poem in praise of the month of October!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
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Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Monday, October 5, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Our Comfort!”
As of this posting, I am implementing the above image as the official “header” (opening) of the Bottoms-Up! monthly postings series here on ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers! A nice pair of buttocks to view on a monthly basis!
Buttocks bid good-bye to summer, 2026!
This is the end of the month that also coincides with the end of the summertime here in the Northern Hemisphere! So as we offer farewell to the passing season, we do it as memorable as possible, with our bottoms-up salute!
A bottoms-up novel!
Our days along the sandy shores won’t last forever, so many make every fleeting moment worth every effort!
Aquatic buttocks!
He’s skinny-dipping for fun as well as for celebrating this remarkable bottoms-up! occasion! Nice pose, amigo! Gracias!
Automobile exit!
Our anatomical “bottom” has – at last – arrived on the scene! Let the world know another pair of buttocks are now on location!
Outdoor shower!
Taking advantage of the moderate weather temperatures now that the autumn of 2026 has officially arrived in the Northern Hemisphere!
Be brave, be bold and be bottoms-up!
Naked hugs!
Roger Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
Author’s Note: The next post entry is planned for here, tomorrow, October 1, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “USA: Our History Month!”
“Body hair and nakedness are compatible and natural. They compliment one another; like a rose blooming on a bush.” ~ Aaron Michael Peterson-Poladopoulos ~ 28 March 2022
Me, asleep! June, 2013
As the often awful subject of body hair was a part of the recent posting of Bare Celebrity Series #11: Brazilian Foreplay here, I wanted to include my feelings on our all natural growth. As for me (above), my body hair is very limited: basically my armpits, my genital region and of course, my head. Aside from that, I’m naturally smooth skin.
So, when I am skinny-dipping (swimming naked), it really is mostly all skin that gets dipped!
As a mature, professional man (hospital nursing supervisor), I know that whatever amount of natural body hair that I have doesn’t automatically make me into a responsible man. Yet it does help to send the message that I am aware of impressions and that I’m not some foolish wannabe (want-to-be) who is afraid to “man-up” (be a man)! Besides, when I am working, I wear clothes (uniform) and my armpits and genitals aren’t visible!
“Bare is a true gauge of equality. The significant discrepancy being some have more body hair than others.” ~ Aaron Michael Peterson-Poladopoulos ~ 1 June 2020
My accepting my natural state-of-being (body hair) I use as a statement of my being a decent man who tries his best to do what is expected, needed and right.
“Body hair adds dignity and integrity to our nudity.” ~ Aaron Michael Peterson-Poladopoulos ~ 1 June 2020
I don’t try to avoid, hide or to be invisible. I know what is required and I do what I can best do to succeed.
I try to set an example. I am happiest in my nakedness and I want others to see and understand that. I am a natural man with my hairy armpits and my hairy penis. I just try to keep it simple and real!
If I grow it, then I am confident and proud to show it! My nakedness makes that happen!
“Body hair – a little or a lot – is part of being manly. Like our armpits, nipples, penis and testicles, it is what combined makes us the what and who we are. Bisexual or gay, we know what is good for us!” ~ Sean Xavier ~ bare practitioner and gay celebrity Spring, 2009
Sean Xavier (birth name: Kyle Overton)!
Naked hugs!
Aaron Michael Peterson-Poladopoulos/ReNude Pride: Guys Without Boxers!
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Author’s Note: The next post entry here is planned for Wednesday, September 30, 2026, and the proposed topic is: “Bottoms-Up! September, 2026!”
