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Contents:

• BEAR NECSI: AN SIR’S LOOK AT AN ATYPIL GAY CULTURE AND MUNY
• WHY THIS GEIA MOUNTA TOWN HAS BEE A GAY-IENDLY HOT SPOT
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

BEAR NECSI: AN SIR’S LOOK AT AN ATYPIL GAY CULTURE AND MUNY

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WHY THIS GEIA MOUNTA TOWN HAS BEE A GAY-IENDLY HOT SPOT

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ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

” Oh, but they’re fely gay, jt not the kd you’re likely to see on televisn or most magaz. “It was really such ntrast to the stereotype of gay men, ” said Ron Surha, thor of “Bear on Bears” and another foundg member ― if one uld ll that ― of bear culture. ” San Francis wasn’t the only cy where gay men were explorg this new kd of masculy.

There was no work of gay men that he knew, so when he first h the scene, the only plac he knew to go were n-of-the-l gay dance bars, where he was hassled for his weight. ” As bears me to their own San Francis and Chigo the late ‘80s, the HIV/AIDS crisis further galvanized—and ravaged—the muny, jt as had the gay muny as a whole. And when the ter beme more wily available, dramatilly changed the spread of gay culture.

Addnally, bears tend to be urban or gay urban-intified. “There are plenty of bears who are actual blue-llar gay men as well as ral gay men, who see bears as a way of intifyg that is not middle class, i. “It’s no different than other groups the gay muny.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

His experience also illtrat the divi between generatns that mirrors the gay muny’s transformatns before and after the worst days of the HIV/AIDS crisis. “In the AIDS epimic, many gay people cid not to go out.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

“We get a lot of people that don’t have any sort of gay anizatns or plac to go, ” Beck said.

“Bears don’t f the normal look of what gay men are supposed to look like, ” Beck add. The cherry on top for some travelers: s welg gay muny.

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ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

It was recently regnized by Thrillist as the most gay-iendly cy Geia. "The list of reasons that gay upl have flocked to this unspectg town North Geia uld get que history, geo mountas and endls list of thgs to do and more might be the start of are few thgs you might not have known about the emergg gay-iendly muny:It's left the loggg the past. And wh such a large LGBT populatn, 's easy to fd gay-owned bs, like the popular downtown hair salon Indulgence Hair Stud, terg to the area's sizable tourist 's perfect for the outdoor Ridge is loted the Chattahoochee Natnal Fort, a stone's throw away om Tennsee and North Carola.