'The Gay Beards' Demystify Their Endurg Friendship

Contents:

• BEAR NECSI: AN SIR’S LOOK AT AN ATYPIL GAY CULTURE AND MUNY
• HOW TO GROW AND TAKE CARE OF A BEARD: TIPS FOR GAY MEN
• 'THE GAY BEARDS' DEMYSTIFY THEIR ENDURG FRIENDSHIP
• THE GAY BEARDS: GLTER MOTACH AND FLOWER BEARDS STRAIGHT OUT OF PORTLAND, OREGON

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

They’re all sweatg and they certaly don’t look stereotypilly gay. ” 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.

HOW TO GROW AND TAKE CARE OF A BEARD: TIPS FOR GAY MEN

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.

'THE GAY BEARDS' DEMYSTIFY THEIR ENDURG FRIENDSHIP

“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.

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.

THE GAY BEARDS: GLTER MOTACH AND FLOWER BEARDS STRAIGHT OUT OF PORTLAND, OREGON

“In the AIDS epimic, many gay people cid not to go out. “We get a lot of people that don’t have any sort of gay anizatns or plac to go, ” Beck said.