An exclusive interview with Mike Rogers, proprietors of BlogActive.com and PageOneQ.com, considered one of the nation’s top gay bloggers, on outing closeted homophobes in Washington, DC.
Category: Bear Soup
News, Shmooze, Skews, and Interviews, Readings, Humor, & more for the online ursine community with “Bears on Bears” author Ron Suresha. Featured on BearRadio.net, Mondays & Wednesdays 10pm Eastern/Pacific. Sponsored by Bear Bones Books.
Nawlins Report: Rocco and I went to New Orleans early October for our 2nd anniversary! D&D tour of New Orleans: (death & devastation) with our hosts, Dale and Dave, owners of Sweet Olive B&B; R&R meet filmmaker John Waters @ his NOLA photography exhibit, “Unwatchable,” and chat about bears; Adam, Dale, and Dave at Commander’s Palace; NOLA bearclub; reading selection about Ron’s proposal to Rocco in NOLA from “Moving the Mountain: A Love Story,” Ron’s essay for the 2004 anthology, “I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage” edited by bear publishers Ian Philips and Greg Wharton.
An excerpt from Jonathan Cohen’s satirical novel, Bear Like Me (Southern Tier Editions, 2003)
An exclusive preview excerpt from the new novel, “Hot on His Trail”, by Zavo. This lusty old West tale of a Texas Ranger “hung like the buffalo,” as the native tribes say, gives new meaning to the term “cowpoke.” This novel is forthcoming soon from Alyson Publications — http://alyson.com
As reprinted in last year’s Folsom Street Fair Guide, an excerpt from Ron’s interview with “Bonsai Pete” Vafiades about the origins of San Francisco’s premier bear bar, the Lone Star Saloon. Read the whole dang long, thick, (semi)uncut version of the interview at http://www.ronsuresha.com/writing/shorts/iview/vafiades.php
1. Greg Paz’s miserable first-person essay in the Sept. 12, 2006 Advocate, “Fat Greg is Dead.” 2. From Lady Bunny’s dee-lightful interview with “Big Bill” in the May 2006 Genre magazine, “A Big, Big Love.”
1. Steve Carell is the #1 cute bearded suicidal gay Proust scholar in the delightful summer comedy noir film Little Miss Sunshine. 2. A Catholic priest, a Baptist minister, and a Reform rabbi try to convert a bear. 3. An excellent review by Lindsay Cobb of Ron’s new anthology, Bi Men.
Ron reads the Sept. 2, 2006 article in the San Francisco Chronicle written by Wyatt Buchanan on the Hairrison Street Fair, “‘Bears’ come out to play at fair celebrating gay subculture” which mentions “Bear Soup” … Omigod!, and a short item on fashion designer Marc Jacobs’ new major ad campaign featuring two bearish men, makeup guru Dick Page and his husbear, James Gibbs, photographed by Juergen Teller. Backed by the vocal stylings of the bearish countertenor and international opera star, David Daniels.
From William Henderson’s 8/23/06 article in Newsweekly, “The beauty of bears: Photographer Sigrid Jakob’s Hartford Exhibit Makes Large, Hairy, Gay Men a New Standard of Beautiful” and we learn about the drunk karaoke habits of pandas at the bear bar in Shanghhai, China. Music by Gary Douglas Turner
Reflections on the huge green Converse sneakers of bear-identified educator and activist Eric Rofes, from lesbian comic Kate Clinton’s “The last time I saw Eric” in the Advocate; and Johnny Knoxville, posed on the September 06 cover of Out magazine, from “Is Johnny Knoxville the Gayest Straight Guy Ever?” confesses his hard-on for Bears!
