Bates Director Records Video For Internet Project

Last January, Gary Mussell, past president of AANR-West was interviewed by videographer Jamie Cawelti in his capacity as Director of Friends of Bates Beach near Santa Barbara, California.

This interview is now available on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/vxZlO3qPhFs.

The 55-minute discussion covers a wide range of topics related to social nudity in general, the free beach movement, and issues related to maintaining positive relationships between beachgoers, law enforcement and local politicians who are loathed to make nude beaches officially legal.

Mussell discusses the group’s fifteen-year effort to reach a verbal agreement with officials to set aside a clothing-optional section of the beach. The interview covers the group’s $2 bill marketing campaign that gave them visibility with local businesses, their participation in the local chamber of commerce and beach cleanup days and having an information booth at community events and festivals.

Eventually, the interview will be part of a longer documentary Jamie is putting together about nude beaches and body acceptance.