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UNCOMMON GROUND
Ordinary men. Uncommon ground.
A village of gay men, living naked in the sun, on land we own together.
A place to live in the open, love without hiding it, and grow old among men who get it — with no landlord and no one you answer to.
We're early — a real group of men figuring this out together. Scanned our code at a meetup? You're in the right place.
A place to live, not to visit.
There are nude beaches. There are gay resorts. But almost nowhere can a gay man live — year-round, nude by default, surrounded by men like him. The beaches close at sunset and the resorts hand you a checkout date.
It's a small village, owned by the men who live in it, where being naked is the ordinary state of things rather than a weekend you book. Nobody's judging who you love or how you play. And the man next door probably helped raise your roof.
Men have talked about a place like this for decades, and plenty of them wanted it badly. It kept stalling for a plainer reason: nobody pulled the right people, the right land, and the right money into one room. That's the part we've started on.
Clothing-optional places have a way of drifting back to clothed — we've seen it happen. So we're writing nude-by-default into our own rules from the start.
Where could this be?
The location atlas shows the places we want to discuss at the first meeting, the alternatives behind them, and why other places did not make this round.
Search a county, city, state, or region. Every answer is dated, source-linked, preliminary, and open to better local evidence.
The plan so far.
None of this is locked in — the group shapes all of it. Here's roughly where our heads are at today.
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Land we own together.
We're setting it up as a co-op: the community holds the land, one member one vote. No outside landlord who could sell it out from under us.
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Build your own place.
No HOA picks your paint color here. You hold your own plot and build what suits you — a full house, a little casita, a parked trailer, whatever works.
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Kept within reach.
A man living on Social Security alone should be able to afford a spot here, and there'll be shared housing for anyone who needs it. What we won't build is a place only well-off men can get into.
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Built by our own hands.
A few guys can put up a natural-materials home in a matter of weeks. We'll run those builds as get-togethers: good company all week, and at the end of it a house standing that wasn't there before.
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Near a hospital and an airport.
Wherever we settle will be within reach of decent LGBTQ-friendly healthcare and a flight home. This is meant to hold a whole life, old age included.
One village is still the center of the plan. We may learn that the better shape is several communities that share tools and rules, a federation of independent places, or a group that meets and learns together before anyone buys land. Those are open questions, not promises.
This could fail. The land may cost too much, water or insurance may make a workable site impossible, or a county may refuse approval. We may not find enough men willing to put in money and years of work, or we may disagree about nudity, sex, ownership, and who gets to decide what. A village can also fail after it opens if a few men carry all the work or the rules stop protecting the reason people came. We can investigate those problems and design around some of them. We cannot pretend they are solved.
What we hold to.
- Nude is the norm. You don't clear it with anyone or wait for the right event. Being bare without being the odd man out is what this place is for.
- No shame. About your body, your age, what you want, or who you want it with. Nobody here apologizes for any of that.
- Owned by the people who live here. The men who live here make the calls. The whole structure exists so that an investor or operator never can.
- A little rough is fine. We'd rather build it ourselves and have it come out rough at the edges than buy something slick and lifeless.
Get on the founding list.
One line and you're on it: your email. Right after, we'll ask a few questions about how you'd want to live here — answer what you like, skip the rest. No commitment and no spam.
Your email goes to Max directly and nowhere else.
Who's behind this.
Max Xiong started it — a musician and technologist who got tired of wondering why this place didn't exist and set out to build it. He handles the land search, the numbers, and most of the talking to people.
Randy runs the tech and keeps the digital side going.
Around them is a growing circle from the gay naturist world — builders, organizers, guys who plan to live here — working on it alongside us. As the founding group firms up and each man's good with it, we'll introduce them here.