author, activist, and anthologist of books centering on gay and bisexual male subcultures
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.
Ron reads “The Bear Who Knew Too Much” part one of a poem by Bear Radio pal and musician Brutus, from “Bear Lust”. Can the backpacker buddies outrun the bear? Plus “Bush Tells Blair They Should Start Seeing Other People” from Andy Borowitz – http://www.borowitzreport.com/
Excerpt from NY Times article on beards on gay/bi married men, “When the Beard Is Too Painful to Remove,” by Jane Gross; and Bruce Hefferman’s classic satire, “Why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?” from the Onion.
“Coming Out Bi and Large,” excerpts from an essay by Jim Fenter, recently divroced Boston-based bi bear, in Ron’s anthology, “Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way”; Richard Hatch, who was interviewed in Bears on Bears, gets to try out his “Survivor” skills in the big house. Background music by Gary Douglas Turner.
Fresh drag queen Hedda Lettuce (http://hedda.com/blog/) serves up ursine satire in her blog bitch about the fat dirty hairy bears of Summer Bear Week in Provincetown, MA with the Ptown Bears (http://www.ptownbears.org), and musician and Bearapalooza producer Freddy Freeman (www.bearapalooza.com/) responds with love; background music by the wooflicious (but ostensibly not-gay) Mark Sloniker (www.marksloniker.com).
Ron welcomes podcast subscribers to the Bear Soup hot tub, Michael Maggart’s memoriam to bear activist Eric Rofes, and Ron reads an excerpt from Ron’s interview with Eric for Bears on Bears.
Joining us in the Bear Soup hot tub is Bears on Bears contributor, Wayne Hoffman. Wayne’s the woofy, brilliant, and funny NYC author of the new down-your-throat novel “Hard”. Also the extremely unexpected and sad passing of bear author and gay activist extraordinaire, Eric Rofes.
Starts off with a calendar of Bear Summer Events, a humorous tale of Bill’s Hunting Trip, and the winner of the “Bear Soup Joke Contest”.
A repeat of the Tobias Waterman interview and the winner of the “Bear Soup Joke Contest” is announced.
Ron reads his essay on “Brokeback Mountain” that was submitted to the American Men’s Studies Conference. Also read are the last of the entries to the “Bear Soup Joke Contest”.
More entries to the “Bear Soup Joke Contest” and an interview with artist Tobias Waterman from Cute Little Blokes (personal caricatures).
