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Luis Andrew Martinez (November 15, 1972 – May 18, 2006) commonly known as Andrew Martinez, was an activist who was known at the University of California, Berkeley as the Naked Guy.〔Record of Luis A. Martinez. Ancestry.com. ''California Birth Index, 1905–1995'' (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.〕 ==Early fame== Martinez was a high school football player when he attended Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California.〔 〕 Martinez attended classes at University of California, Berkeley. In September 1992, his second year in college, he began appearing naked in public and led a campus "nude-in" to protest social repression. Campus police first arrested him that fall for indecent exposure when he jogged naked near southside dormitories late on a Saturday night. The county prosecutor refused to prosecute, concluding that nudity without lewd behavior was not illegal. Martinez began strolling around campus naked, citing philosophical reasons. He explained that when he dressed in expensive, uncomfortable, stylish, "appropriate" attire, he hid the fact that his personal belief was that clothes were useless in his environment except as a tool for class and gender differentiation. The university then banned nudity on campus. Martinez wrote a 1992 guest column in ''The Oakland Tribune'': "When I walk around nude, I am acting how I think it is reasonable to act, not how middle-class values tell me I should act. I am refusing to hide my dissent in normalcy even though it is very easy to do so." Martinez, who typically attended classes wearing only sandals and a backpack, became a ''cause célèbre'' at the university for a while, participating in a number of nude events on campus and performances by the Bay Area nude performance group The X-Plicit Players. He appeared on national talk shows, was profiled in a photo essay in ''Playgirl'' and was parodied in the 1994 college comedy ''PCU''. As a response to Martinez' actions, UC Berkeley issued its "Policy Statement Concerning Public Nudity and Sexually Offensive Conduct" banning public nudity on December 7, 1992. Then neither employed nor furthering his education, Martinez continued living in Berkeley, and was arrested for public nudity by the city. He fought those charges and won. It remained legal to walk around nude in Berkeley and he went further, attending a City Council meeting naked. The city adopted an anti-nudity ordinance in July 1993. Martinez and some of his supporters again showed up at a City Council meeting in the buff and he became the first person arrested under the new city ordinance. He pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge and got two years’ probation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Martinez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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