GROWLR: The Gay Bear Social Network

Contents:

• GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT
• GAY BEARS
• GAY BER'S LIBRARY
• GAY
• RH, “AN ALL NEW GAY BAR” G TO SHAW, POSTS LIQUOR LICENSE PLARD
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• GAY BEARS

GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT

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1 John Hollywood: "Gay Men: Are You a Jock, Otter, Bear or Wolf? Gay Star News. Often ed to refer to asexual people  a siar manner as “gay” or “straight” are ed to refer to homosexual or heterosexual people.

Ally: A person who supports and rpects sexual diversy, acts acrdgly to challenge homophobic and heterosexist remarks and behavrs, and is willg to explore and unrstand the forms of bias wh themselv. A gay or bisexual man who has facial/body hair and a cuddly body.

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An umbrella term that refers to members of a subculture the gay and bisexual male muni and is often fed as more of an attu or sense of fort wh natural masculy and bodi. Bicur: An dividual who typilly intifi as gay or straight while showg some cursy for a relatnship or sexual activy wh a person of the genr they do not favor. (Related terms: heteroflexible, homoflexible).

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Sometim adopted affirmatively by gay men to refer to themselv. Faghag/Ffly: A woman who associat mostly or exclively wh gay or bisexual men. Fluid: A sexual or genr inty that exists beyond a bary system of eher gay or straight, man or woman.

Gay: At tim, “gay” is ed to refer to all people, regardls of sex, who have their primary sexual and or romantic attractns to people of the same sex. The term n also exclively refer to men who are emotnally, romantilly, sexually, affectnately, or relatnally attracted to other men, or who intify as members of the gay muny. Lbians, bisexuals, and transgenr dividuals may feel exclud by the term “gay.

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Heteronormativy: The assumptn, dividuals or stutns, that everyone is heterosexual, or that heterosexualy is superr to homosexualy and bisexualy. Also, the benefs that lbians, gay men and bisexuals receive as a rult of claimg a heterosexual inty and nyg a lbian, gay or bisexual inty. Homoflexible: A person who is mostly attracted to the same sex/genr, but n, on ocsn be attracted to the oppose sex/genr.

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Homophobia: Fear of, hatred of, or disfort wh people who love and sexually sire members of the same sex.

Homophobic reactns often lead to tolerance, bigotry and vlence agast anyone not actg wh soc-cultural norms of heterosexualy. Bee most LGBTQ people are raised the same society as heterosexuals, they learn the same beliefs and stereotyp prevalent the domant society, leadg to a phenomenon known as ternalized homophobia, whereas LGBTQ-intified dividuals feel shame, guilt or hatred towards the part of themselv intified as LGBTQ.

Homoromantic: A person who is romantilly attracted to a member of the same sex or genr. A homoromantic person is not necsarily sexually attracted to the same sex or genr. Homosexual: The clil term, ed the field of psychology, for people wh a same-sex sexual attractn.

Internalized Homophobia: The fear and self-hate of one’s own homosexualy or bisexualy dividuals who have learned negative ias about homosexualy throughout childhood. Ksey Sle: The ntuum mol vised by Aled Ksey 1948 that plotted sexualy om 0 to 6; 0 beg exclively heterosexual and 6 beg exclively homosexual. Leather culture is most visible gay muni and most often associated wh gay men (“leathermen”), but is also reflected var ways the gay, lbian, bisexual, and heterosexual worlds.

A mon abbreviatn for the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng muny.

“the homosexual liftyle. Metrosexual: A term popularized the 1990s referrg to a heterosexual male who assum characteristics tradnally associated wh gay male stereotyp.

No Homo: An offensive phrase often ed after someone has advertently said somethg that others may nsir gay. Pri: A healthy self-rpect, which, the ntext of the gay muny, promot empowerment, tn, safe livg, and the sense that is “okay to be LGBT+. Queen: A slang term ed to refer to flamboyant or effemate gay men.

Queer: Term scribg people who have a non-normative genr inty, sexual orientatn or sexual anatomy—clus lbians, gay men, bisexual people, and transgenr people and alli.

Same-Genr Lovg (SGL): A term ed by some Ain-Amerin dividuals to scribe their sexual orientatn, as a rult of the perceptn that “gay” and “lbian” are primarily whe terms.

Straight-Actg: A term, ually applied to gay men, who readily pass as heterosexual. The term impli that there is a stereotypil way gay men act that is signifintly different om heterosexual men. That’s So Gay: A phrase monly ed to scribe somethg as foolish, stupid or negative.

Transgenr people may intify as straight, gay, bisexual, or some other sexual orientatn. For eight glor days and nights, the Cape Cod rort be bigger, furrier, and iendlier than ual when the burly, hairy gay dus known as bears enjoy a week of summer fun. “Why don’t they have more gay villas, ” Whe said, “I liked wrg Ernte.

Whe, who liv New York, was a -founr of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and of the 1980s queer wrers group The Vlet Quill. “Whether ’s evotive pictn of gay life durg the tumultuo 1980s, pastakgly rearched bgraphy or elegant memoir, Whe’s work stands out across s as s ronance … for a multu of voted rears.