The officers arrested him and took him to jail where he spent the night in his kilt. Officers threatened to arrest him if he didn't put pants on or tie a T-shirt around his waist. Officers approached Walters inside a beer garden at the 2011 parade to inform him that his 12-inch-long and 8-inch-wide homemade leather kilt, which covered a thong, violated the city's public nudity policy. Do San Diego police officers interpret public nudity laws differently for a gay man at a Gay Pride event than, say, a woman in a g-string at the beach?Ī federal appellate court will consider that question on March 11 and decide whether to overturn a lower court's ruling that found Will Walters did not have enough evidence to challenge his arrest for wearing a leather kilt to the 2011 Gay Pride festival.