GNI is built on dignity, consent, discretion, and shared responsibility. These guidelines describe how we care for one another—at events, online, and throughout the wider naturist community.
GNI welcomes gay, bisexual, gay-friendly, and trans men age 21 and older. We come from different places, generations, body types, backgrounds, and levels of naturist experience. What connects us is a commitment to social nudity practiced with respect, personal choice, and care for the community around us.
These guidelines apply across GNI spaces and activities. Individual events may publish additional requirements, and those event-specific instructions must also be followed.
Be the person who makes it easier for someone else to feel comfortable, included, and fully himself.
Respect a “no” immediately.
Protect identities and locations.
Follow the host’s directions.
Leave shared spaces better than you found them.
These principles are designed to be practical. Use them before you act, and speak with a GNI representative whenever the right course is unclear.
Treat members, guests, staff, volunteers, and venue personnel with courtesy. Harassment, intimidation, ridicule, discrimination, unwanted attention, or conduct that makes another person feel unsafe has no place in GNI.
Ask before touching, photographing, tagging, joining an intimate conversation, or entering someone’s personal space. Consent is specific and voluntary, and it can be withdrawn at any time. Silence, familiarity, nudity, or a membership badge is not permission.
GNI celebrates healthy social nudity and does not treat naturism as adult entertainment. Public sexual activity, lewd behavior, or conduct that violates law, venue policy, or event rules is not acceptable in shared community areas.
Do not reveal another member’s identity, attendance, contact details, images, or personal story without permission. Avoid sharing restricted venue information, signs, location tags, staff details, or recognizable background features.
Use cameras only where photography is specifically allowed. Ask each recognizable person before taking a picture, check the background, and respect all no-photo badges, posted restrictions, and event notices. Permission to take a photo is not automatic permission to publish it.
Wear and present badges as required, observe access controls, respect designated spaces, and follow instructions from GNI staff, Board members, volunteers, security, and venue personnel. Rules may differ by activity or location.
Use a personal towel when sitting nude, clean up after yourself, dispose of waste properly, and honor smoking, fire, pet, noise, and facility restrictions. Community comfort depends on everyone doing his part.
Carry the same standards into member forums, video gatherings, messaging groups, and social media. Do not share private-directory information, screenshots, unsolicited explicit material, abusive messages, spam, impersonation, or confidential event details.
Programs differ, but thoughtful event etiquette is consistent: pay attention to notices, ask before assuming, and cooperate promptly with event leadership.
Some members enjoy appearing in event photographs and public outreach. Others need or prefer complete discretion. Both choices belong in GNI.
Respect photo-preference badges and posted no-photo areas, and listen for advance notices about designated photography activities. Before capturing an image, obtain permission from every recognizable person and make sure no one is unintentionally included in the background.
Confirm publication permission. Approval to take a picture may not include approval to share it.
Crop closely. Remove non-consenting people, badges, venue details, signs, and identifiable backgrounds.
Do not identify attendance. Never tag, name, check in, or disclose another person’s participation without his explicit agreement.
Honor removal requests. Cooperate promptly when GNI or a pictured member asks for content to be removed.
Messages, forums, member directories, virtual events, and private groups can create meaningful connection—but only when members can trust that private information stays private and boundaries remain intact.
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If you experience or observe harassment, a privacy violation, unsafe behavior, unwanted photography, or another breach of these guidelines, contact a GNI Board member, staff member, volunteer lead, security representative, or event organizer as soon as practical.
Provide the clearest information you safely can: what happened, where and when it occurred, who was involved, and whether immediate assistance is needed. Retaliation against someone who raises a good-faith concern is inconsistent with these guidelines.
Depending on the situation, GNI may provide guidance, separate participants, request content removal, restrict access, suspend privileges, remove an attendee, or refer a serious matter to venue security or appropriate authorities.
Event-specific terms may define additional consequences. Cooperation with a reasonable instruction from GNI leadership is expected while a concern is being addressed.
These community guidelines provide an organization-wide foundation. Registration terms, venue rules, program notices, privacy policies, and event instructions may add requirements for a particular setting.