An Inclusive Litany

4/3/95

Dade County, Florida, installed an $18,500 ramp to make it easier for disabled people to bathe in the nude on the half-mile "clothing-optional" strip of Haulover Beach. Activists demanded the ramp after the 1990 passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act and, under the law, county officials had to comply.

According to the Associated Press, Dade County also spent $1,700 to buy two "beach wheelchairs" and is planning to spend an additional $30,000 to build special parking spaces that are closer to the beach. Fred Shotz, a disabled man who was interviewed while wearing no clothes, told the AP that he was "really pleased that it's here, obviously."