The brilliant summer weather was particularly welcome as two dozen people gathered in downtown Vancouver for International Topless Day Sunday.
The protesters in Vancouver were a magnet for camera-wielding pedestrians and tourists which is precisely the response that the demonstrators would like to change.
The protesters said their goal is to end the taboo of women baring their breasts in public.
“We’re doing this in order to help women free themselves from the taboo [of ] the breasts as unhealthy and dirty and sexual,” one protester told CTV News. “We’ve all been created equal,” she said.
The event was organized in solidarity with the American organization Go Topless. Each year the topless rally falls on the Sunday closest to Women's Equality Day on Aug.26 which celebrates the day women earned the right to vote in 1920.
In 1971 the United States Congress proclaimed that the day would be a nationally-recognized date.
While only 10 cities participated in the first event in 2007, this year people got involved in 45 cities across the world.
