MAN ON MAN – ‘Dtroyg Stigmas & Double Standards Agast The Gay Bear Scene’ – Wall Of Sound

Contents:

• THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
• GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT
• MAN ON MAN – ‘DTROYG STIGMAS & DOUBLE STANDARDS AGAST THE GAY BEAR SCENE’
• BALDUR’S GATE 3 HAS A GAY BEAR SEX SCENE AND PEOPLE ARE LOVG
• GAY MAN RSIA BEATEN AND RAPED ON CAMERA HORRIFIC VIRAL VIO
• GAY 'BEARS' BARE ALL BODY-POSIVE ART EXHIB
• PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS

THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

Nice first gay date film. There’s a creepy, homoerotic-horror feel to the film, and Rubenste mak a likable, good-lookg lead- which mak what happens to him all the more upsettg.

He travels to the untry to meet his boyiend’s mother who had no ia her ad son was gay or had a lover, and the sry brother Francis (Pierre-Yv Cardal).

In 1984, when Calv Burde was awag sentencg for allegedly stabbg his gay lover to ath, the prosecutg attorney enuraged the jury his closg remarks to award Burde the ath penalty, rather than life prison, on the grounds that sendg a gay man to prison was ak to sendg a kid to a ndy store. His ath sentence was later overturned (mostly bee Burde's public fenr had slept through much of his trial), but the homophobic thkg – that prison is some kd of paradise for gay men – lgers realy of life prison for homosexuals and transgenr dividuals do not appear to reflect this myth. He scribed a lany of btal rap, asslts, beatgs and, eventually, the total abandonment of his male inty as his only means of survival the hyper-mascule and often homophobic prison environment.

GAY BEAR VIOS: THE BT OF THE BT

His acunt suggts that far om beg a paradise, prison for gay men n be a livg days of his first enterg prison, the 23-year-old Rodney claimed he was the victim of three separate sexual asslts, volvg five different mat. The prison he was first sent to did actually have a separate tier for gay mat, but acrdg to Rodney, bee he did not "appear overly effemate" durg his classifitn, he was placed wh the general populatn; and bee was supposedly rare to have a gay person slip through the cracks of the system, his fellow mat took full advantage. "Agast popular opn, jail is not heaven for a homosexual.

Gay men who do not attempt to hi their sexualy are forced to passive and submissive rol. It's difficult to asss how typil Rodney's prison experience is, but numero studi nducted by the Bure of Jtice Statistics, based on anonymo mate surveys, have shown that gay and transgenr mat are among the most targeted groups for sexual victimizatn. Jt Detentn Internatnal (JDI), an anizatn whose aim is to eradite prison rape (pdf), is tryg to change has been workg wh the California Department of Correctns and Rehabilatn (CDCR) to tablish "sensive needs yards" (pdf), where gay, transgenr and other vulnerable mat n serve out their time safety.

MAN ON MAN – ‘DTROYG STIGMAS & DOUBLE STANDARDS AGAST THE GAY BEAR SCENE’

COVID-19 has seen a surge quarante mil projects sce lockdown h earlier the year and one act that ught the attentn of the world, spe some unfortunate mistreatment om YouTube, was MAN ON MAN, the gay bear/daddy duo featurg Fah No More‘s Roddy Bottum and his real-life partner Joey Holman.

BALDUR’S GATE 3 HAS A GAY BEAR SEX SCENE AND PEOPLE ARE LOVG

For those not the know, the gay bear scene is dited to hairier, cuddlier dividuals who don’t reprent the mastream gay scene stigma of beg clean cut, pretty and sportg abs for days, but rather a group of happy-go-lucky lads who are fortable our own sk who (until now) barely had reprentatn the mic scene….

GAY MAN RSIA BEATEN AND RAPED ON CAMERA HORRIFIC VIRAL VIO

Nothg agast them, but ’s a double standards suatn jt bee of the gay ntent I thought.

This project was spawned om COVID isolatn, how did that ial nversatn of “we should make a gay bear mil project while we’re bored” e about?

GAY 'BEARS' BARE ALL BODY-POSIVE ART EXHIB

(Roddy) ‘Gay bear mil project’ was never somethg eher of said. Beg a member of the gay bear/daddy scene (albe, not really a label guy per se), I thk ’s rehg to see an act like MAN ON MAN pictg our culture and showsg gay men as we are: mature, gged and hairy (unlike the stereotypil clean-cut mastream gay scene).

We regnise now that what we’re dog is speakg to a facet of gay culture a way that hasn’t been addrsed before. It don’t have to reflect the gay scene and hopefully n be streamed/listened to by anyone who turn may dite to their loved one. (Joey) It’s actually 100% gay.

PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS

There are plenty of love songs wrten and performed by bands or artists who sg about straight love and we uldn’t give a sh if people outsi the gay world want to adopt and make a universal msage. Love certaly is universal, but gay love is specific, and the world needs to hear about love that exists unr the rabow.

“Beg gay the public eye feels polil but to extend that prence to an hont appraisal of my relatnship my work feels somewhat more polil. After some years , beme paful to ver up this very big part of my life [beg gay], and MAN ON MAN is a totally different pla that regard.

(Joey) I unrstand bee of my size and body hair that I’ll be lumped wh the bear tegory, but I would say the bt part about beg “a bear” is that I am gay, which means I get to be associated wh so many credibly fierce dividuals who are queers, dky, trans, femm… basilly the voic that are changg the world. (Roddy) I’m a big fan of turng younger kids on to different aspects of the gay muny, pecially history and elements of the gay muny that through the years has brought all together as a fay.