The Orbit: June 6
This week on Planet Nude: Pride Month begins at Denny Blaine and Hanlan's, while naturist spaces face new pressures
This week on Planet Nude
June begins with Pride Month, and several of this week’s stories arrived from places where queer history, public nudity, and community identity have become difficult to separate. Those connections were often built gradually, through years of use rather than formal recognition, which makes them easy to overlook until something threatens them.
In Seattle, the Denny Blaine trial entered a crucial phase as supporters continue defending a beach that has long served as both a nude recreation site and an important queer gathering place. Across the continent, advocates at Toronto’s Hanlan’s Point are entering Pride Month with a different concern. Severe erosion has swallowed large sections of one of North America’s most historically significant queer and clothing-optional beaches. The circumstances are different, but both stories point toward the same reality: communities are often only as secure as the spaces they can claim and maintain.
Elsewhere, the picture is more mixed. In Brazil’s Chapada dos Veadeiros, a new naturist pool and waterfall area is preparing to open inside an established ecotourism destination, creating fresh room for clothing-optional recreation.
At the same time, Full Tan Sun Club in upstate New York announced it will sit out the entire 2026 season for renovations. One story is about expansion, the other about preservation, but both reflect a reality familiar to naturists almost everywhere: spaces come and go, and maintaining them often requires far more work than creating them.
Curtis Atkins’ history of Arkansas nudism looks back at clubs and communities that once seemed permanent before gradually fading from the map. It's a useful reminder that nudist spaces rarely disappear all at once. More often they are lost through attrition, changing habits, and simple neglect. Preserving a community usually begins with showing up.
Check out these stories and more from this week on Planet Nude.
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Here are a few stories we’re tracking off Planet Nude this week.
Wim Wenders pulls 1975 film over nude scene with then-13-year-old Nastassja Kinski
The acclaimed director has withdrawn The Wrong Move from distribution while discussions continue over a nude scene involving actor Nastassja Kinski when she was thirteen. The decision raises difficult questions about how archives, filmmakers, and audiences should approach historical works whose production circumstances are viewed very differently today.
Mississippi’s Ship Island named one of America’s best nude beaches
Ship Island’s unofficial clothing-optional section has long occupied an unusual place in American nudism: widely known, frequently visited, but rarely discussed by local institutions. The article treats the beach as a tourism asset rather than a controversy, offering a useful reminder that public attitudes toward nude recreation can look very different depending on where the story is told.
“Tant que les gens n’ont pas des comportements pervers…” : à Bordeaux, avec la canicule, les maillots de bain sont de sortie au Jardin public
A heatwave in Bordeaux has produced a familiar public debate as residents increasingly sunbathe in swimwear throughout city parks. The story is ostensibly about summer weather, but the conversation quickly turns toward decency, public space, and where societies draw the line between comfort and acceptability. Those arguments tend to surface whenever bodies become more visible.
Discord Dispatch
May was a busy month in the Planet Nude Discord. Our recent community events drew strong participation and sparked the kind of thoughtful, wide-ranging conversations that make the community what it is. Membership has now grown to more than 450 people, with new members continuing to arrive each week.
We're already looking ahead to June. A new slate of events is in the works, with details to be announced soon.
Join us at discord.gg/8gt7D6ssMd — or click here to learn more.
Featured: 1 Naturist Life
Dustin’s article argues that naturism's struggle to attract Gen Z is an outdated marketing problem, not a lack of shared values. While the lifestyle is currently branded toward older, straight, white couples, its core principles actually align perfectly with Gen Z's modern push for body neutrality and the rejection of toxic beauty standards.
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