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Andrew Martinëz
Andrew Martinëz
Born	Andre Da Silva Martins; April 27, 1997; Luxembourg, Europe
Nationality	Portuguese, Luxembourgish
Other names	Andrew Sánchez Martinëz
Occupation	Dj/Producer
Known for	Public figure

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Andrew Martinëz (April 27, 1997) was an Dj / Music producer who was known at the Luxembourg.

Early fame

Andrew participated in a Spinnin Records tournament (calling Talent Pool) and was in the Top 50, so he gained fame and fans.

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-{{about|the nudist and activist|the Mexican-American drummer|Andy DeMize}}
 {{Infobox person
-|name        = Andrew Martinez
+| name               = Andrew Martinëz
-|image       = Andrew martinez.jpg
+| image              =
-|caption     = Andrew Martinez being arrested in [[Berkeley, California]]
+| caption            = Andrew Martinëz (left) with his mother and his brother [[Milan, Italy]]
-|birth_name = Luis Andrew Martinez
+| birth_name         = Andre Da Silva Martins
-|birth_date  = {{Birth date|1972|11|15}}
+| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1997|04|27}}
-|birth_place = [[Santa Clara County, California]]
+| birth_place        = [[Luxembourg, Europe]]
-|death_date  = {{Death date and age|2006|05|18|1972|11|15}}
+| death_date         =
-|death_place = Santa Clara County, California
+| death_place        =
-|other_names = Naked Guy
+| other_names        = Andrew Sánchez Martinëz
-|known_for   = Public nudity and nudity activism
+| known_for          = Public figure
-|occupation  =
+| occupation         = Dj/Producer
-|nationality = American
+| nationality        = Portuguese, Luxembourgish
 }}
+'''Andrew Martinëz''' (April  27, 1997) was an [[Dj|Dj / Music producer]] who was known at the [[Luxembourg]].
-'''Luis Andrew Martinez''' (November 15, 1972 – May 18, 2006) was an [[activist]] who was known at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] as '''the Naked Guy'''.<ref>Record of Luis A. Martinez. Ancestry.com. ''California Birth Index, 1905–1995'' [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.</ref>
 ==Early fame==
+Andrew participated in a [[Spinnin Records]] tournament (calling [https://spinninrecords.com/talentpool/chart/ Talent Pool]) and was in the Top 50, so he gained fame and fans.
-Martinez was a [[high school]] [[American football|football]] player when he attended [[Monta Vista High School]] in [[Cupertino, California|Cupertino]], [[California]].<ref name=bnet>{{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_/ai_n16845600 |title=Friends recall 'Naked Guy' for strong belief in freedom Family |newspaper=[[The Oakland Tribune]] |author=Goldston, Linda |date=November 22, 2006 |accessdate=2009-01-03}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>
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-Martinez attended classes at the University of California, Berkeley. In September 1992, his second year in college, he began appearing naked in public and led a campus "nude-in" to protest social repression. Campus police first arrested him that fall for indecent exposure when he jogged naked near [[Southside, Berkeley, California|southside]] [[dormitory|dormitories]] late on a Saturday night. The county prosecutor refused to prosecute, concluding that nudity without [[lewd]] behavior was not illegal. Martinez began strolling around campus naked, citing philosophical reasons. He explained that when he dressed in expensive, uncomfortable, stylish, "appropriate" attire, he hid the fact that his personal belief was that clothes were useless in his environment except as a tool for class and gender differentiation. The university then banned nudity on campus.
-Martinez wrote a 1992 guest column in the ''[[The Oakland Tribune|Oakland Tribune]]'': "When I walk around nude, I am acting how I think it is reasonable to act, not how middle-class values tell me I should act. I am refusing to hide my dissent in normalcy even though it is very easy to do so." Martinez, who typically attended classes wearing only sandals and a backpack, became a ''cause célèbre'' at the university for a while, participating in a number of nude events on campus and performances by the Bay Area nude performance group the X-Plicit Players. He appeared on national talk shows, was profiled in a photo essay in ''[[Playgirl]]'' and was parodied in the [[1994 in film|1994]] college comedy ''[[PCU (film)|PCU]]''. As a response to  Martinez's actions, UC Berkeley issued its "Policy Statement Concerning Public Nudity and Sexually Offensive Conduct" banning public nudity on December 7, 1992.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2005/09/29_briefs.shtml |title=For the record |publisher=[[University of California, Berkeley]] |date=September 29, 2005 |accessdate=2009-01-03| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081221160858/http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2005/09/29_briefs.shtml| archivedate= 21 December 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref>
-Then neither employed nor furthering his education, Martinez continued living in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], and was arrested for public nudity by the city. He fought those charges and won. It remained legal to walk around nude in Berkeley and he went further, attending a City Council meeting naked. The city adopted an anti-nudity ordinance in July 1993.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/03/30/MN100455.DTL |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |title=BAY AREA FOCUS – NAKED REBELLION – It's all about free speech, Berkeley nudists insist |date=March 30, 1998 |accessdate=2009-01-03 |first=Charles |last=Burress |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221070245/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fchronicle%2Farchive%2F1998%2F03%2F30%2FMN100455.DTL |archivedate=21 December 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> Martinez and some of his supporters again showed up at a City Council meeting in the buff and he became the first person arrested under the new city ordinance.<ref name=lat>{{cite news |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2006/may/21/local/me-naked21 |title=UC Berkeley’s `Naked Guy’ Dies in His Jail Cell |newspaper=[[The Los Angeles Times]] |date=May 21, 2006 |accessdate=2009-01-03| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081221025040/http://articles.latimes.com/2006/may/21/local/me-naked21| archivedate= 21 December 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> He pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge and got two years’ probation.
-==Later life==
-After his legal matters were settled, Martinez began wearing clothes again and began to write a manuscript about his experiences.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.xplicitplayers.com/MartinezManifesto/index.html |title=Militant Nudist Revolution! Andrew Martinez, 1993}}</ref> He traveled to Europe and studied [[judo]]. After his return and continued unemployment, he began to manifest symptoms of [[mental illness]] and he spent much of the decade following his period of national attention moving among [[halfway house]]s, psychiatric institutions, occasional [[homelessness]], and jail, but never getting comprehensive treatment, his family said. Martinez showed signs of schizophrenia and was prescribed medication, but with little improvement. "It was an endless cycle of trying to get answers but never getting any," said his mother. "It was endless, endless, endless."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/21/NAKEDGUY.TMP |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |title=Champion of nudity found dead in jail cell -'Naked Guy' won fame in Berkeley, challenged values |date=May 21, 2006 |first=Carolyn |last=Jones |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060613090556/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2006%2F05%2F21%2FNAKEDGUY.TMP |archivedate=June 13, 2006 }}</ref>
-On January 10, 2006, Martinez was arrested after a fight at a halfway house and charged with two counts of [[Battery (crime)|battery]] and one count of [[assault]] with a deadly weapon. He was placed in maximum-security custody in [[Santa Clara County, California|Santa Clara County]] Jail in San Jose.<ref name=lat />
-==Death==
-The last time Martinez's mother saw her son was three weeks before his death when she visited him in jail. "He was sad. He was tired. He said he had enough," she said. "I alerted everyone, but nothing happened." On the evening of his death a guard checked on him at 11 p.m. and he was fine, but a few minutes later other inmates reported hearing sounds coming from his cell. An officer returned at 11:19 and found Martinez unconscious. The 33-year-old Martinez was found with a plastic bag cinched around his head. He was taken to [[Santa Clara Valley Medical Center]], where he was pronounced dead of apparent suicide on May 18, 2006. Martinez's funeral was held May 25. A memorial for him was held May 27 at the [[People's Park (Berkeley)|People's Park]] in Berkeley.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2006-05-26/article/24234?headline=Friends-Remember-Andrew-Martinez |title=Friends Remember Andrew Martinez |newspaper=[[Berkeley Daily Planet]] |author=Bhattacharjee, Riya |date=May 26, 2006 |accessdate=2009-01-03| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081221221043/http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2006-05-26/article/24234?headline=Friends-Remember-Andrew-Martinez| archivedate= 21 December 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref> On November 12 of that year, a public memorial was held at a community recreation center in Cupertino.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nwzchik/detail?blogid=32&entry_id=10363|title="Naked guy" to be remembered at memorial |newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |author=Lagos, Marisa |date=October 30, 2006 |accessdate=2009-01-09| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081221070250/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nwzchik/detail?blogid=32&entry_id=10363| archivedate= 21 December 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref>
-In 2009, his mother Esther Krenn settled a wrongful death lawsuit against Santa Clara County, which paid her $1 million and altered its policies so that family members would be notified in the event of a suicide attempt.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-05-19/bay-area/17202565_1_naked-guy-uc-berkeley-campus-nude|title=How Berkeley's 'Naked Guy' met a tragic end|author=Chip Johnson|date=2009-05-19|newspaper=The San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=2011-03-02 }}</ref>
-==See also==
-{{wikinews|'Naked Guy' Andrew Martinez dies}}
-*[[Clothes free organizations]]
-*[[Public nudity]]
-*[[Stephen Gough]]
-==References==
 {{Reflist|2}}
+*
-==External links==
-*[http://www.codepublishing.com/CA/Berkeley/html/Berkeley13/Berkeley1332/Berkeley1332.html Berkeley Municipal Code: Chapter 13.32: NUDITY IN PUBLIC PLACES]
-*[http://www.xplicitplayers.com/MartinezManifesto/index.html 1993 version of  Andrew Martinez's manuscript for "Militant Nudist Revolution!]
-*[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/magazine/31naked.t.html?scp=1&sq=%22andrew%20martinez%22&st=cse "The Naked Guy"], ''[[New York Times Magazine]]'' profile/obituary, December 31, 2006
-*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173012/http://www.andrewmartinez.info/Home.html Andrew Martinez memorial site, with extensive interview]
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