Bear Culture 101 (no prerequise) - The Gay & Lbian Review

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• ‘BEARCY’ IS THE BIGGT AND HAIRIT GAY TRILOGY YOU’VE NEVER SEEN
• REVIEW 2023
• BULLS REPORTEDLY AMONG THE TEAMS INTERTED FREE AGENT FORWARD RUDY GAY
• THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

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

Cast & crewUser reviews2010Not Rated1h 22mMallm Ingram troduc to gay men who dig big dus who are stockier and hairier than the airbshed ial served by up liftyle magaz and unrwear ads. Mallm Ingram troduc to gay men who dig big dus who are stockier and hairier than the airbshed ial served by up liftyle magaz and unrwear ads. Mallm Ingram troduc to gay men who dig big dus who are stockier and hairier than the airbshed ial served by up liftyle magaz and unrwear productn, box office & pany PhotosMore like thisReviewContribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentBy what name was Bear Natn (2010) officially released Canada English?

Bear Natn is a thorough and stylistic examatn of the sub culture sweepg gay culture, the sexualizatn of fat and hair.

REVIEW 2023

Watch Now SynopsisMallm Ingram troduc to gay men who dig big dus who are stockier and hairier than the airbshed ial served by up liftyle magaz and unrwear ads. While the LGBT muny has long had to stggle wh stereotypg by outsirs, gay men also have to al wh wily held perceptns om their peers that they're supposed to f a certa image - men who are stylish, refully groomed, trim and to a certa gree effemate. But not all gay men f this profile, and this has led part to the rise of "Bears" - gay men who are stocky, hirsute, outwardly mascule and proud of .

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As gay culture has moved closer to the mastream, Bears have e out of the closet (or the woods) and bee one of the more visible and active subcultur wh the LGBT muny.

In BEAR NATION, filmmaker Mallm Ingram (Small Town Gay Bar), tak you on a fascatg journey si a fast growg segment of the gay muny where what was once a perceived negative is now refg the fn of what looks like to be gay. A passnate niche wh gay male circl, a bear, for the uniated, is an affectnate term for “the bigger, hairier guy, ” as Langway put .

Seven years and three movi later, the “BearCy” trilogy is the biggt gay movie anchise you’ve probably never heard of. Langway partnered wh gay film distributor TLA for the first “BearCy, ” but self-fanced the next two g Indiegogo. Najimy, beloved by gay dienc for ’90s mp classics like “Hoc Poc” and “Sister Act, ” has long been an outspoken ally for the LGBTQ muny.

THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

“She’s always been a big fan of the gay muny, and a real supporter, ” Langway said of the actrs. Guaro has been beloved by gay viewers sce his big break on Logo’s “The Big Gay Sketch Show” (which also starred a 21-year-old Kate McKnon), and has worked nsistently sce then. Guaro has been playg gay for over a , so much so that he had a ont row seat to peak televisn’s gradual social progrs.

“I ed to play actual gay stereotyp, then I would play ments on stereotyp, and then I would play ‘real’ gay guys, ” he said.

Or even worse, they make the gay guy very mastream, so highlights the quirks of the straight person.

Mastream — even pennt — film and televisn offers a very narrow sliver of the full diversy of the gay muny. This visual intifitn wh the gay bear subculture seems timely, for 2010 appears to be my Ann Ursi, Year of the Bear. A “bear” is a hairy, beard, brawny-to-bulky gay man, ually displayg aspects of tradnal masculy.

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

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.

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.