In this episode of Bear Soup:
- IBR 2005: dinner with Chris Nelson, ex-boyfriend, and cofounder and photographer of Bear magazine
- film screening at IBR of “Bear Cub (Cachorro),” a Spanish film by bear director Miguel Albaladejo, and a movie review
- PAWS reading, including readings by bear authors Joel Perry, Simon Sheppard, Raymond Luczac, performance artist Alan Reade, and Barth Cox’s short film, “Asking to See the Soul”
- a fabulous performance by dragapella musicians The Kinsey Sicks.
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.
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