Louis Abolafia

Louis Abolafia (1941 (Manhattan) - November 1995^[1]) was an artist who ran for President of the United States under the Nudist Party on the Hippie 'Love Ticket' various times in the 1960s and onward. He ran against Richard Nixon in 1968 as the naked Hippie "love candidate" with the slogan: "What Have I Got To Hide?" Abolafia had previously run in 1968 under the Cosmic Love Party, even then with the slogan "What have I got to hide?"

The son of a New York City florist, Abolafia coined the phrase, "Make love, not war!" and was part of the Greenwich Village art scene in the 1960s. In this capacity, he organized "love-ins" and "happenings" that combined music, poetry and audience participation, inspiring the New York press to crown him “The Love King.” He became a sort of hippie poster-boy.

Abolafia inspired the creation of the Exotic Erotic Ball in 1979 in San Francisco, which was held annually for more than three decades until it was canceled in 2010.

Abolafia was a "descendent of the Abolafias—writers of the Kabbala"^[2]

He died of a drug overdose in 1995.

References

1. ^ Louis Abolafia, 54 was on Hippie 'Love Ticket' 1995-11-03, Boston Globe
2. ^ Abolafia for President 1967-05-13 , The New Yorker p.40

External Link

• San Francisco Spectator article (posted Oct. 21, 2000) on Louis Abolafia and the Exotic Erotic Ball
• Obituaries

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Name	Abolafia, Louis
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Short description	American artisis and peace activist
Date of birth	1941
Place of birth	Manhattan, NYC
Date of death	1995
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