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Big Bear Book Tour — New York City #2

Big Bear Book Tour — New York City

3 May 2002
GLBT Center
New York, New York


A friendly, furry crowd gathers before the reading at the New York City GLBT Center. Among the nearly 50 folks attending, pictured here are: Bears on Bears contributor Arnie Kantrowitz (foreground, far left), entertainment writer Larry Flick (red shirt) hugging Bears on Bears contributor Wayne Hoffman (grey shirt), and good pal Mike Frisch (white shirt).

Bears on Bears contributors and life partners Arnie Kantrowitz and Dr. Larry Mass read with Ron at the LGBT Center in Manhattan.

Bears on Bears contributor Steve Evans reads with Ron from the “Post-Bears & Ex-Bears” chapter in  the book.

Bearotica contributor Eric Karnowski reads from his fabulous Daddy/boy story, “A Bear in August.”

Ron and Bill Palmer, associate publisher of Haworth Press and Ron’s editor for Bi Men and Bi Guys, enjoy a little after-reading festivity at Ty’s.

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.