San Jose Mercury News
Linda Goldston
Nov. 12, 2006 12:00 AM
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Linda Goldston
Nov. 12, 2006 12:00 AM
SAN JOSE - He was known around the world in the early 1990s as the "Naked Guy," the 6-foot-5 student who went to class and strolled around the University of California-Berkeley campus wearing only shoes and a backpack.
Clothes were a symbol of elitism and repression, and Luis Andrew Martinez planned to spend his life challenging the status quo.
He died at 33 in the throes of schizophrenia. Martinez's nearly 10-year descent into that dark world of jail and hospitals was too painful for his family and friends to talk about right after he killed himself on May 18.
But in the nearly six months since, the people who knew him best realized there was much to celebrate. They will honor his short life at a public memorial today in Cupertino, the city where he was a star football player and wrestler, the city where he took his first nude walk and where his dreams to change the world were born.
Clothes were a symbol of elitism and repression, and Luis Andrew Martinez planned to spend his life challenging the status quo.
He died at 33 in the throes of schizophrenia. Martinez's nearly 10-year descent into that dark world of jail and hospitals was too painful for his family and friends to talk about right after he killed himself on May 18.
But in the nearly six months since, the people who knew him best realized there was much to celebrate. They will honor his short life at a public memorial today in Cupertino, the city where he was a star football player and wrestler, the city where he took his first nude walk and where his dreams to change the world were born.
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