‘BearCy’ Is the Biggt, Hairit, Gay Trilogy You’ve Never Seen – IndieWire

Contents:

• THE 8 CHIGO CUBS WOULD TURN A STRAIGHT GUY GAY
• GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT
• A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN
• SAVE GAY BARS
• ‘BEARCY’ IS THE BIGGT AND HAIRIT GAY TRILOGY YOU’VE NEVER SEEN
• GAY MAN’S ‘TWK TO BEAR’ BODY TRANSFORMATN GO VIRAL

THE 8 CHIGO CUBS WOULD TURN A STRAIGHT GUY GAY

Antigay Christian activist and fired realy show host David Benham ma news last week when he claimed that he nverted a man away om his "gay liftyle" wh love and tickets to a Chigo Cubs game. I found the e of Cubs tickets to be an odd vehicle for a gay-to-straight nversn.

Pl, watchg a baseball game is seeg a group of young, good-lookg, well-veloped athlet their prime sweat and move for three hours; hard to see how that would make a gay man sudnly sire women. David Benham and his tw brother Jason thk that all tak to nvert a gay guy is a trip to a ballgame.

As his name suggts, Otterj draws his greatt spiratn om the slenr, hairy, beard, and often tattooed gay male subculture known as otters -- but not exclively. The men his photographs are unabashed exhibnists lookg for a place to f to a gay culture that has creasgly turned s back on a sexually aware world where leather and cisg are forms of liberatn. The gay world is often reprented as some sort of monolhic whole that has the same culture.

GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT

It is actually broken down to a handful of substrata to which each gay belongs. Here they like the world at large may stereotype gays as mcg wrist flippers wh great taste bent on givg everyone they meet a make over.

That said, when the gays see a fellow homosexual the public sphere, we try to plug them to the nvenient taxonomy the muny has ma for self. They may not be very faiar to the world at large, but they are certaly faiar to the brothers butt say that each gay person belongs to one of the typ is a b ceptive.

A HANDY GUI TO ALL GAY MEN

Dcriptn: This young breed of gays is never over 30 and tends to be on the queeny si and hews closely to the nventnal stereotyp of gay man. Wild, ornery, and still gettg over their g out issu, the twk is the gay gone wild, and is ba to olr men who are to tryg to suck off their youthful energy.

Subtegori: The Twunk, the Gay-sian, the A&F boy.

SAVE GAY BARS

Celebry Example: Kev SmhGay Jocks. Dcriptn: This guy pris himself on the fact that no one thks he is gay until he tells them.

He wears T-shirts and ball ps wh his favore team logo, and lik guys who are "non-scene, " unls the scene is a gay sports team.

Subtegori: Gay football players, gay soccer plays, gay gby players, etc. Celebry Example: This is such a specific type don't really exists the world at large, but the Platonic ial of a circu boy is DJ Brett HenrichsenGay-Listers. Dcriptn: The are the uppy homos who live the good life, and are generally too good for you.

‘BEARCY’ IS THE BIGGT AND HAIRIT GAY TRILOGY YOU’VE NEVER SEEN

They ually work advertisg, PR, marketg, or the entertament dtry and make a ton of sh which they e to have perfect apartments, fantastic wardrob, and summer hom near all the other gay-listers. Subtegori: Power gays, the velvet mafia.

GAY MAN’S ‘TWK TO BEAR’ BODY TRANSFORMATN GO VIRAL

Dcriptn: The are the kids who are so gay they uld never f durg high school and sought refuge the mic partment. He drs eher the most current prissy fashns or like a homo versn of Terry Richardson, big glass, flannels, and jeans that looks so thrown together that took him hours to put together. You're more likely to fd them at a gallery openg or mol party, but every so often they'll be at a gay bar to b elbows, and other parts, wh the other homos.

Dcriptn: This is a very small but very powerful ntgent of the gay populatn.