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Go Topless Day

Go Topless Day is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Go Topless Day rather than just read about it. In short: Go Topless Day (also known as National Go Topless Day or International Go Topless Day) is an annual event held in the United States, Canada, and Switzerland to support the right of women to go topless in public on gender-equality grounds. In states where women have that right, topfreedom laws are celebrated, while protests are held in states where topless women are prohibited.

Key takeaways

Go Topless Day belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Go Topless Day to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Go Topless Day from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Go Topless Day (also known as National Go Topless Day or International Go Topless Day) is an annual event held in the United States, Canada, and Switzerland to support the right of women to go topless in public on gender-equality grounds. In states where women have that right, topfreedom laws are celebrated, while protests are held in states where topless women are prohibited.

Organizer The annual event was started in 2007 by GoTopless, a Nevada group formed by Raël, leader of the Raelian Movement, a UFO religion. GoTopless has supported events and chapters in other countries.

History Go Topless Day was founded in response to the arrest of Phoenix Feeley (Jill Coccaro), a topless activist who was arrested for being topless in public in New York in 2005. The city of New York settled with Feeley for $29,000 because toplessness is legal there. Go Topless Day is scheduled for the Sunday nearest August 26, Women's Equality Day, a United States holiday celebrating women's suffrage. The event encourages women to go topless in public, and men to cover their chests by wearing brassieres or bikinis.

Events The first Go Topless Day was organized in 2007. In 2011, Go Topless Day in the US was held on August 24. Protesters, both men and women, participated in rallies held in thirty cities across twelve U.S. states, including California, New York, Women who participated in the celebration used either fake latex nipples or pasties to cover their nipples and avoid arrest due to laws in some states that prohibit women from showing their areola and nipples in public. The protesters displayed signs that read "Men and women have nipples. Why should women hide theirs?" and "Equal topless rights for all or none". Many men who joined the demonstration wore bras and bikinis to protest against the double standard where men are allowed to go bare chested, but women are prohibited to go topless in public. The same year saw Go Topless Day celebrated for the first time in Canada, with a rally in Toronto, Ontario, on August 28. Nearly twenty women went topless going from Queen Street East to Kew Beach on a pick-up truck playing the song "Revolution" by The Beatles. According to Diane Brisbois, the spokesperson for Go Topless Canada, "This is not a beauty contest. It is about freedom. We have support; there are many men who come to our events too." The right of women in Canada to go topless was established in 1996, when the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned the 1991 conviction of Gwen Jacob, saying "there was nothing degrading or dehumanizing" about baring her breasts in public. At a 2014 Go Topless Day rally in Chicago, participant Sonoko Tagami was ticketed for toplessness and fined a total of $140 based on a city ordinance. Tagami sued the city, arguing that the law was unconstitutional under both the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the freedom of speech protections of the First Amendment; the suit was dismissed by the court. Tagami appealed the dismissal, but it was upheld by the Seventh Circuit Appellate Court; Tagami petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, but the petition was denied, upholding the dismissal. In 2025, pro-topless protesting took place in Switzerland, in the first event organized by the group outside of North America.

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Go Topless Day

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Go Topless Day claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Go Topless Day before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Go Topless Day ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Go Topless Day

In research: Go Topless Day appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Go Topless Day in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Go Topless Day is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2007 establishments in Nevada, Annual events in Canada, Annual events in the United States, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Go Topless Day outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Go Topless Day in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Go Topless Day means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Go Topless Day out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Go Topless Day in simple terms?

Why does Go Topless Day matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Go Topless Day?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Go Topless Day.