150 Reasons Why We Have Not Yet Reached Peak Beard The demise of the Beard has been vastly overstated. Hirsute taste-makers were put on notice…
author, activist, and anthologist of books centering on gay and bisexual male subcultures
150 Reasons Why We Have Not Yet Reached Peak Beard The demise of the Beard has been vastly overstated. Hirsute taste-makers were put on notice…
Edge review of FUR: the love of hair: “If you are a bear, if you identify with bears, if you know a bear, if you’re sister is married to a hairy guy and loves it, if you know a straight man who revels in body hair . . . get this book”
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.
Comparing the Mr Bear Boston event with my observations of a similar nongay men’s competition I witnessed earlier this year, the East Coast Beard & Mustache Championship.
FUR: THE LOVE OF HAIR book reading at the Alley in downtown Boston with coauthor Ron Suresha and contributing artist R Jason Webb.
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.”
The 11th annual post-Independence Day international male tribal gathering on Cape Cod known as Bear Week spanned two prime Summer holiday weekends
Thanks for these great early reviews! ♥ `Hair of the dog’: A Preference not a Cure! May 20, 2012 By Grady Harp • Amazon.com HALL…
My interview on BearCentral with Scott McGillivray on FUR: THE LOVE OF HAIR Listen for the recorded interview audio on Bear Soup podcast