Nantucket is a step closer to allowing women to go topless on the Massachusetts resort island's beaches.
The Gender Equality on Beaches bylaw amendment passed 327-242 at Tuesday night's annual town meeting.
But the measure is not a done deal yet. It still requires approval from the state attorney general's office which may not happen until summer is over.
The bylaw was proposed by seventh-generation Nantucket resident 40-year-old Dorothy Stover and reads in part: 'In order to promote equality for all persons, any person shall be allowed to be topless on any public or private beach' in town.
Nantucket is a step closer to allowing anyone who chooses regardless of gender to go topless on resort island's beaches after local Dorothy Stover, 40, proposed a change in the law there
The Gender Equality on Beaches bylaw amendment passed following a debate at the annual town meeting on Tuesday, pictured above
Under the current state law, only men can go topless in public.
Stover shared her delight on her Instagram page.
'Top Freedom passed! It's very surreal, it's very exciting,' she said.
Stover felt that the state law which only allows men to take off their tops in public 'was really antiquated.'
'This past summer, I was at the beach and I wanted to lay out topless,' she recalled to the Cape Cod Times. 'And I thought, "why can't I do that?" Some men have bigger breasts than I do!'
Stover described herself as an Intuitive Love Teacher and teaches classes online
