From the archives: a 1999 interview with Girth and Mirth co-founder, Reed Wilgoren, excerpted from my book, Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions, revised edition.
Tag: bear community
I went on BearPodcast to talk with the guys about my new poetry anthology, Hibernation and Other Poems by Bear Bards.
Coming in April: Hibernation, and Other Poems by Bear Bards, a smart, sexy, eclectic poetry collection written by & for gay / bisexual men of the bear community. All about the book and the Bear Bards, including the Fundly bear literature campaign info, here.
Like any subculture, the bear community comes with its own distinct taxonomy — its minorities within a minority within a minority. Some defining terminology relating to fur-bearing members of the Bear community.
A free, fun, and furry litBEARary event sponsored by DC Bëar Crüe and Bear Bones Books. Saturday September 21st @ 4:00pm at the Green Lantern in Washington, DC
Images of men’s body and facial hair from FUR: THE LOVE OF HAIR, the award-winning coffee-table art book by Ron J. Suresha & Scott McGillivray, were featured in the Chris Hines documentary, “The Long & Short of Body Hair.”
The artists of a photography project called The Bear Sessions asked me to write an introduction to a collection of their work, a series of ursomasculine images, printed in magazine form, which came out this month.
“A window into another man’s masculinity” The new issue (#17) of All-Bear, which has my interview on FUR: THE LOVE OF HAIR, and the Bear Bones Books new titles.
Why is there a need for a bear community? “Because older and mature gay, bi and queer guys should be free, if not encouraged, to organize spaces and events that meet their mutual homosocial needs, including their unique and mature sexual tastes, just like straight men and lesbians and bi’s and transgender folks are free to organize and associate socially.”
Our increasingly interconnected society has allowed many more types of previously closeted gay and bi men to recognize their homosexuality, despite their body type or image. Thus, bears.