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 ...

After his 1974 naked dash, Robert Opel ran for President and got into the gay leather scene, in the orbit of Harvey Milk and Robert Mapplethorpe, Michael Schulman writes.

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 ...

In this Feb. 4, 1974 file photo, a streaker later identified as Robert Opel appears on stage surprising David Niven, right, at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles. AP Photo, File.

The actress was referencing the moment gay rights activist Robert Opel sprinted across the stage during David Niven's introduction at the 1974 Academy Awards.

Opel’s nephew, Robert Oppel, told Entertainment Weekly in 2018 “It was a social comment” against conformist society. Opel was not arrested for the stunt. Five years later, ...

Host Jimmy Kimmel wanted to pay homage to the 1974 streaking incident which involved the late Robert Opel, who ran naked behind an unsuspecting David Niven onstage, ...

Kimmel set up the gag by referring to an infamous incident at the 1974 ceremony, when a streaker, Robert Opel, dashed across the stage behind host David Niven.