Clearly, gay/bi bears are the Next Big Thang in cinema. With the September theatrical premiere of the new John Waters movie, A Dirty Shame, which features a scene with a number of AmaBear’s DC–Baltimore bearpals, we can be sure that the topic of ursine masculinity will be on sophisticated tongues during the next year. In fact, Waters, the gay filmmaker of Hairspray and Pink Flamingoes, chatted enthusiastically about bear subculture on Air America Radio’s “Unfiltered” show, with Lizz Winstead and lesbian Rachel Maddow, even mentioning The Bear Handbook, cubs, and otters.
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Ron Jackson Suresha is an editor, anthologist, and writer. He is considered an authority on emergent queer masculinities, in particular the subcultures of gay and bi male Bears and of male bisexuality.
For Ron's service to the bear community, he was named "Bear of the Year" 2008.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Suresha attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 1976-8), where he studied creative writing, and Vista College (Berkeley, Cal., 1989-92), where he studied American Sign Language. For more than two decades, he has worked as a freelance proofreader for trade book publishers such as Shambhala Publications. He was married in October 2004 to Rocco Russo. He is also a licensed Justice of the Peace in Connecticut, an ordained minister, ULC, and a member of the New London Green Party.
Nonfiction works include Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions; Bi Men: Coming Out (coeditor, with Pete Chvany); Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey (editor).
His latest book is The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero, published by Lethe Press.
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