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Big Bear Book Tour — Detroit

Big Bear Book Tour — Detroit

20 April 2002
Borders Books / The Hayloft Saloon
Detroit, Michigan (Ron’s hometown!)


The Motor City Bears president gives Ron a big hometown bear’s welcome.

Ron was greeted by a terrific crowd of handsome hirsute hunks at the vast Borders Books in Dearborn.

Lots of old acquaintances came to the after-reading reception at Detroit’s Hayloft Saloon. Among them, Ron’s childhood pal and, as it turns out, bear, Ralph Benaim.

Ron’s childhood sweetheart Sara Rubin, who lived a block away from Ron in their hometown.

Ron with Hayloft Saloon owner Ron Harrington (right) and his partner Mark at a reception held at the Hayloft.

Marty and Bob, two founding members of the Motor City Bears, with Ron.

Published by Ron Suresha

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.