Come As You Are: A Naturist Invitation to Taipei Pride 2026

Come As You Are: A Naturist Invitation to Taipei Pride 2026

Taipei Pride is on October 31, 2026. That's Halloween, so the city will already be half in costume before the march even starts. Half the crowd in glitter, half in whatever shirt survived the humidity. Late October in Taipei doesn't really do autumn. It does warm evenings and wet air and a lot of people who decided today was the day to be seen.

I'll be walking. I'd like you walking too.

First, what I mean by NSFW

Not porn. Just honest.

This post talks about bodies. Queer bodies, trans bodies, older bodies, disabled bodies, fat bodies, bodies with scars and surgery and hair in inconvenient places. Mine included. If that's not the kind of reading you're up for today, no hard feelings — come back another time. But Pride has never been a place where I could pretend bodies weren't the whole point.

Why a nudist shows up at Pride

Naturism taught me something I didn't expect. Being seen and being judged are two different things, and my whole life I'd been treating them as one.

The first time I stood naked outdoors with other people, nothing terrible happened. Nobody laughed. The sky didn't fall. I just stood there, breathing, and after about four minutes I stopped narrating my own body in my head. That silence was new. I've been chasing it ever since.

Pride asks for the same muscle. Different clothes, same courage. Roughly.

What the day actually looks like

Some practical things, because I'd rather you enjoy yourself than get heatstroke.

Late October in Taipei runs warm and damp. Bring more water than you think you need. Wear shoes you've already broken in, because the route is longer than it looks on a map and the pavement wins every argument. Charge your phone, then bring a battery anyway. Decide on a meeting point before you lose signal, because you will lose signal.

And go with someone. Or find someone. Walking alone is fine until it isn't.

About nudity, laws, and consent

Taipei Pride is a public march in a city with laws about public nudity, and those laws don't take the day off because there's a rainbow flag nearby. So I'm not telling you to strip on the street. I'm not asking anyone to get arrested for me.

What I am saying is this: if you're a naturist, a nudist, or just someone who's curious about body freedom, there's a place for you in the queer community. Express it where it's legal, where it's welcome, and where everyone involved has actually agreed. That last part is the whole thing, honestly. Consent isn't paperwork. It's the difference between being seen and being used.

Which brings me to photographs. Ask first. Every time. A camera pushed into someone's face is not a compliment, and a body in a harness or a skirt or nothing much at all is still a body that belongs to a person.

If you're nervous

You're allowed to be. I still get nervous. Twenty minutes before I take my clothes off for a shoot, my hands go cold and I start inventing reasons to reschedule.

Then I do it anyway, and about four minutes in, I remember why.

You don't have to take anything off at Pride. You don't have to be loud, or proud in the way the posters suggest. You can show up in a hoodie, stand at the back, and cry a little when the first float goes by. That counts. That's the same act.

So: October 31, 2026. Taipei. Come as you are, which is the only thing I've ever really been selling.

If you see me, say hi. I'll be the one who looks slightly too happy to be outside.

If you're going on October 31 and you'd rather not walk the route alone, drop a comment here and say so. I'll help pair people up. And if you're not in Taipei this year, tell me which Pride is closest to you — I'd love to know where the rest of this community shows up.