Robert Opel, the Oscars streaker, was also a trailblazing LGBTQ-rights activist and opened the first gay art gallery in San Francisco in 1978.

Robert Opel was severely underdressed when he famously crashed the 1974 Academy Awards. Everybody laughed, but the world's most famous streaker's life ended in tragedy.

Artist and nudist Robert Opel was murdered in his SoMa art gallery five years after running on stage nude at the Oscars.

Oscars Flashback: The True Story Behind 1974’s Streaker Robert Opel -- a conceptual artist, photographer and gay rights activist who burst on stage nude at the 46th Academy Awards -- had an ...

Robert Opel, the famed "Oscar streaker," was also a gay gallery owner, nudism activist, and freelance photographer whose life and death are the subject of an expansive essay by Michael Schulman in the ...

The tragic story of Robert Opel, the man who starred in another historic scandal at the Oscars in 1974 After the recent scandal that Will Smith and Chris Rock starred at the 94th Academy Awards ...

Drew Barrymore wants 'another streaker' to crash this year's Oscars: 'It happened in the '70s!' The actress was referencing the moment gay rights activist Robert Opel sprinted across the stage ...

After Robert Opel dashed naked across the stage in 1974, he ran for President and settled into the gay leather scene, in the orbit of Robert Mapplethorpe and Harvey Milk.

Stars in the House Nancy Opel and Robert Stanton Read David Ives' All in the Timing on Stars in the House Live Stream Plays in the House is a spinoff of Stars in the House, the daily series ...

On the night of the 1974 Academy Awards, English teacher Robert Opel made Oscar history when he stripped naked and ran across the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion behind actor and Oscar ...

The tragic story of Robert Opel, the man who starred in another historic scandal at the Oscars in 1974 After the recent scandal that Will Smith and Chris Rock starred at the 94th Academy Awards ...