Lazy Bear Week — Gay Rsian River

Contents:

• GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT
• PHOTOS: BEEFY RSIAN GAY IN PAVEL PETEL SRED TO BE IN MOSW
• GAY WE WEEKEND SONOMA
• 35 BT GAY ONLYFANS ACUNTS FEATURG HOT DUS 2022
• THE 10 BT FREE GAY ONLYFANS CREATORS OF 2023
• THE TOP LGBTQ+ DATG S AND APPS: 14 BT GAY DATG S

GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT

Petersburg’s secretive BEARsBURG society — a morn Rsian rnatn of a gay sub-group which origally veloped the Uned Stat toward the end of the 1970s as a reactn agast effemate stereotyp of queer men. It’s a party behd an unmarked door a untry that has seen hate crim agast the LGBT muny crease sce the 2013 troductn of a law banng “gay propaganda among mors. Msagg apps like Telegram have provid new ways for Rsian gay men to build such works, as well-n group chats n create a sense of togetherns and clivy.

Sce the troductn of the 2013 “gay propaganda” law, the Kreml has pursued an anti-LGBT agenda through laws that have rced LGBT visibily and enuraged the harng of anti-LGBT sentiment the wir populatn.

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One of the many long-standg gay subcultur, a bear an LGBTQIA+ ntext is a large, hairy queer man who self-intifi wh the 'bear' label. I'm sure Vladimir Put, the famoly tough Rsian print, would be horrified to disver that the bare-chted photos of him shootg, fishg and ridg - that he hop will enar him to men like Yuri and Gey - are celebrated as homoerotic classics on gay webs the more vodka and our meal was over.

Si by si, we panted gently, listeng to the rhythmic splash as sweat dripped om our gradually we adjted to the heat, I cid to broach the gay issue. As I try to get to sleep, I n't help reflectg on the utterly unselfnsc ntradictn between Gey and Yuri's open celebratn of masculy and manift enjoyment of male timacy, and their vilent homophobia.

This visual intifitn wh the gay bear subculture seems timely, for 2010 appears to be my Ann Ursi, Year of the Bear. Their work mak clear that the bear muny began to alce San Francis the late 1980’s, fluenced by gay biker clubs and created by men who did not f or did not appreciate the prevailg gay athetic that valorized slenr, smooth-bodied youths.

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The proto-bears did not relate to the well-groomed urban gay liftyle; they found nventnal masculy many quali worth prervg.

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Gay social groups lled bear clubs anized ci like Los Angel, Hoton, and New York, some servg whole stat or regns like Connecticut’s bear club, the Northeast Ursamen, that began 18 years ago. Sponsored by the clubs, weekend gathergs lled “bear ns” began, first gay-iendly spots like the Rsian River, Provcetown, and San Francis, and later plac where you might never expect such gathergs to occur, such as Roanoke, Virgia, where the lol club, Virgia Mounta Bears, has twice hosted an annual weekend event lled Mounta Bear Madns. At the same time that I was absorbg the manly woodland fluenc, I was also explorg gay bars and g to terms wh my queer inty.

While the larger gay muny had never ma me feel wele, bears ma me feel as if I uld be two thgs that had always seemed irrencilable: my homosexualy and my untry roots. The bear muny, like the leather world, has also ma me ls apologetic for cherishg many aspects of tradnal manhood, which I’d been raised to admire and which I emulated to some extent my own homomascule genr evolutn. “Homomasculy” is a term Surha attribut to Jack Frscher, the former Dmmer magaze edor and thor of the classic gay and pop culture novel, Some Dance to Remember (1999), featurg a bearish ma character.

Wikipedia f “homomasculy” as “a subculture of gay men who self-intify wh the imagery, culture, and genr role of what is normally seen as ‘tradnal, straight male masculy. ’” The bear muny embrac and celebrat homomasculy whout sistg on one stylized look as a pre- requise for entry to s muni, as queer leather culture. The homomascule bear look, often seemgly intil to that of workg-class and ral men and currently epomized as the “mcle-bear, ” has been rerced by the eroticizatn of those looks bear magaz.

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Jack Malebranche, his 2006 book, Androphilia: A Manifto, exriated the effemacy pervadg gay male culture and enuraged same-sex-lovg men to return to a more nventnal manls. Crics such as Surha characterized the dogged sistence on hypermascule behavr for gay men as troublg and rejected this “butch-ier than thou” attu as herently misogynistic, opprsive, and self-loathg. This opposn to masculy seems unnecsarily prcriptive to me, as prcriptive as sistg that gay men all hie to “butch mp” to learn how to be macho—as if Eros paid any attentn to polil rrectns; as if, chagred by radil queer disapproval, a man uld change what he fds arog and what he fds admirable.

Burack has ma clear her 2008 book S, Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right, relig fundamentalists hate all equally.

L Wright, former profsor at Mount Ida College near Boston, eded two volumo amic anthologi for Haworth Prs, The Bear Book: Readgs the History and Evolutn of a Gay Male Subculture (1997) and The Bear Book II: Further Readgs the History and Evolutn of a Gay Male Subculture (2001). The two books, along wh Ray Kampf’s whimsil The Bear Handbook (2000), helped fe this new breed of queer masculy, jog a flurry of new perdil tl, such as Daddy, Amerin Grizzly, and Bunkhoe, which veloped this new homomascule ia to a regnizable image.

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Ron Surha’s groundbreakg 2002 book, Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discsns, which featured gay lerary figur such as David Bergman, Michael Bronski, Richard Labonté, and Mark Thompson, chronicled the many facets of the movement.

Like lots of Appalachians, I’m a big untry mic fan (another passn that has alienated me om mastream gay culture) as well as a lover of Southern food and untry okg. In the followg year, a fay of bears (Daddy, Mommy, and Baby Bear) broke to gaystream cema as mor characters John Waters’ fetishistic farce, A Dirty Shame. Bear Cub, a feature-length tragiedia by Spanish bear filmmaker Miguel Albalajo, portrays a gay bear’s relatnship wh his prec nephew and received popular acclaim.