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Fwd from M Juarez

A number of gay/bi “li-bear-ians” have been trying over the past 4-5 years to get LC to recognize the classification of bears….it looks as if this may have happened… yay!

FWD From: Sherman Clarke
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 10:20 AM
To: The Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Librarians Network
Subject: Re: Cataloging GLBT Fiction… and Bears

“Bears (Gay culture)” joined the LCSH world late in May, i.e.

005 20040527235709.0
008 040405i| anannbabn |a ana c
010 __ |a sh2004007474
040 __ |a NNU |b eng |c DLC
150 __ |a Bears (Gay culture)
550 __ |w g |a Gay men
670 __ |a Work cat.: The bear book, c1997.
670 __ |a Cornell University Library database, Apr. 2, 2004: |b record for
Les K. Wright papers and Bear History Project files, 1959-2000 (hdg.: Bears
(Gay subculture); collection summary: documentation of a gay subculture
revolving around burly, hairy men, or “bears”)
680 __ |i Here are entered works on gay men who refer to themselves as
“bears” because they are heavier-set, hairy, older, and/or have mustaches or
beards.

Welcome!

Sherman Clarke, NYU Libraries

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.