GROWLR: The Gay Bear Social Network

Contents:

• THE LORFUL CULTURE OF THE ISRAELI GAY BEAR MUNY
• 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
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• BEARWWW, LA WEB Y APP PARA LA UNIDAD GAY
• A LERATURE REVIEW OF HEALTH RISKS THE BEAR COMMUNY, A GAY SUBCULTURE

THE LORFUL CULTURE OF THE ISRAELI GAY BEAR MUNY

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. Tired of gay men beg portrayed as effemate and th, burly, hairy gays tablish the 'gay bear' muny and have all sorts of bondg activi, cludg their own 'Mr.

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

Gay Bear' petn and y, some tensely-sexual parti"I don't have the size of a bear, but I nsir myself part of the bear muny, " says 59-year-old reflexologist Od Doar who stars the new season of Israeli TV show "Come Eat Wh Me" word bear is LGBT slang for a bulky and hairy man.

3 View gallery Burly and proud, Od Doar (Photo: Avi Kochavi)Many believe was a unterweight to the gay stereotype of an effemate, slenr man, as well as a mechanism of self-acceptance and posive body image.

"3 View gallery It's not jt th, toned guys that get to have all the fun (Photo: Chillz)What's like havg gay fay the periphery? Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

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

Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

BEARWWW, LA WEB Y APP PARA LA UNIDAD GAY

Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype. While his on-urt productn certaly isn't where ed to be at this stage of his reer, Gay still do posss the reque size and strength to pete.

Standg at 6’8” and sportg a 7’3” wgspan, Gay has the exact type of proportns the Lakers lacked their seri agast the Denver Nuggets particular.

Dpe the limatns and drop-offs that e wh age, there is potentially a role for Gay somewhere the league as he has proved to still be a steady ntributor when given the chance.

A LERATURE REVIEW OF HEALTH RISKS THE BEAR COMMUNY, A GAY SUBCULTURE

While remas to be see if that role is found Los Angel for Gay, probably behoov the Lakers to look elsewhere to fill what is an obv need or at least swg for upsi wh a younger player.

Bear subculture exists wh a larger gay muny, which has been regnized by public health experts as disproportnately burned wh stigma and related health adversi. Our rults suggt that although Bear-intified men are characterized by their siari to other gay men, subcultural inti create unique social ntexts that are important for health and health terventns this populatn.

Multiple studi associated exposure to stigma wh health dispari var populatns, cludg the gay and bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men (MSM), disproportnately affected by both physil and mental health problems pared to the general populatn [2, 3].

Only recently have the rearchers started to explore the associatns between gay men’s health and their subcultural affiliatns [7].