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Big Bear Book Tour — Chicago

Big Bear Book Tour — Chicago

24–27 May 2002
Bear Pride:
Gerber-Hart GLBT Library / Boystown Borders Book / Ann Sather’s Restaurant
Chicago, Illinois

The first reading in Chicago during Bear Pride / IML weekend was held at the Gerber-Hart GLBT Library in the Edgewater area.

Also at Gerber-Hart, Bearotica contributor Eric Karnowski read from his story, “A Bear in August.”


Ron with two bear-book-loving buddies at the Boystown Borders bookstore.

A leisurely breakfast at Ann Sathers’ Restaurant, the main Bear Pride venue, with Bears on Bears contributor Kajunbear (on right) and New Orleans buddies Dale and Dave.

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.