Via The Huffington Post:

THE CANADIAN PRESS — BRACEBRIDGE, Ont. – Lawyers for a man charged after not wearing clothes at a drive-thru in central Ontario will try to convince an Ontario court judge Tuesday that it should no longer be a criminal offence to be nude in public.

Brian Coldin is on trial after being nude at an A&W and a Tim Hortons in Bracebridge, where he pretended to reach into his non-existent back pocket for his wallet.

His lawyers will argue the nudity laws under which he was charged are too broad and therefore unconstitutional.

“The purpose of the criminal law is to protect us from harm, not to protect the sensibilities of the most prudish among us,” Nader Hasan, one of Coldin’s lawyers, said in an interview.

“These laws violate freedom of expression and they are overbroad such as to punish all kinds of conduct that is completely harmless and shouldn’t be criminal.”

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via PINK NEWS:

Last week, art critic Brian Sewell wrote in the Daily Mail: “Is it true that the lives of heterosexual Mancunians are haplessly intertwined with transvestites, transsexuals, teenage lesbians and a horde of homosexuals across the age range? Is Manchester now the Sodom of the North?”

Jean Alexander, the actress who played Hilda Ogden until 1987, said in a recent interview: “Every community has people who are gay and they are very nice people. I’m not running the Street down – and let’s not forget its creator Tony Warren is gay – but three couples seems excessive.”

Last week, gay charity Stonewall argued that Coronation Street had a representative number of gay characters.

A spokesman said: “Given that the government estimates that six per cent of the population are lesbian, gay or bisexual it isn’t inconceivable that a number of the 66 current Corrie characters are LGB.

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