The New York Tim' Lens blog has posted a seri of photographs of gay bears (as gay dus who intify as bears, not actual homosexual Ursidae) snapped by 30-year-old Alan Charlworth. They're cent shots of dus that are hairier and rounr than your average du. They reprent a visual alternative to the pretty-boy, gym-bunny stereotype — you know, jt as bears are meant to be.
Contents:
- UNRSTANDG THE BEAR MOVEMENT GAY MALE CULTURE: REFG MASCULY
- WHY ARE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS SO AAID OF “EX-GAYS”?
- PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS
- UNRSTANDG THE BEAR MOVEMENT GAY MALE CULTUREUNRSTANDG THE BEAR MOVEMENT GAY MALE CULTUREUNRSTANDG THE BEAR MOVEMENT GAY MALE CULTUREUNRSTANDG THE BEAR MOVEMENT GAY MALE CULTUREUNRSTANDG THE BEAR MOVEMENT GAY MALE CULTURE
- A LERATURE REVIEW OF HEALTH RISKS THE BEAR COMMUNY, A GAY SUBCULTURE
- WHY DO PEOPLE PRETEND THAT THE GAY BEAR SCENE ISN’T AS ROOTED LOOKS AS ANY OTHER GAY SCENE?
UNRSTANDG THE BEAR MOVEMENT GAY MALE CULTURE: REFG MASCULY
The bear movement emerged the gay male culture of the 1980s, but ltle rearch on this group has been nducted. The purpose of this qualative study was to exame the meangs and functns of bear inty. Six bear-intified men participated tensive terviews vtigatg this qu … * gay bear movement *
The 19th century wrer Osr Wil is revered by many the gay and lbian muny but, believe me, if he were alive now, he’d be totally exasperated wh the whg, hysteril malntents who domate today’s gay lobby.
WHY ARE HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS SO AAID OF “EX-GAYS”?
The LGBT movement is terrified to let ex-gays e "out of the closet." Why? Bee the existence of ex-gays prov that... * gay bear movement *
If “ex-gays” exist, this means that people n change their sexual orientatn — and this means that the foundatn the homosexual rights movement, the ia that they are “born that way” and th nnot help themselv, go right out the wdow. Many ex-gays are aaid to e out of the closet bee of the harassment they will receive — their nam, phone numbers and personal rmatn posted on gay webs, attacked at ex-gay exhib booths, prs releas issued agast them, etc.
PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS
Unrstandg the Bear Movement Gay Male Culture * gay bear movement *
The tactics of gay activists are to go after anyone who out publicly as ex-gay, force them back to the closet, and then claim that ex-gays don’t exist bee there aren’t any out public. ”3 This is an odd assertn, sce a tailed review of homosexual obuari showed several exampl of men who were happily married, who had children, and who nsired themselv “straight” sudnly abandong their fai and embracg the homosexual “liftyle.
UNRSTANDG THE BEAR MOVEMENT GAY MALE CULTUREUNRSTANDG THE BEAR MOVEMENT GAY MALE CULTUREUNRSTANDG THE BEAR MOVEMENT GAY MALE CULTUREUNRSTANDG THE BEAR MOVEMENT GAY MALE CULTUREUNRSTANDG THE BEAR MOVEMENT GAY MALE CULTURE
For example, Nicholas Cummgs, a former Print of the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, has stated that he knows of hundreds of homosexuals who have succsfully changed their orientatn.
A LERATURE REVIEW OF HEALTH RISKS THE BEAR COMMUNY, A GAY SUBCULTURE
But the “scientific” methods ed this study would make any legimate rearcher crge; the “study” managers did not terview a large group of “ex-gays;” they simply sought out people who claimed that they had been harmed (an tensive procs that took a full five years) and then nmned such therapy. Robert Spzer of Columbia Universy surveyed a wi range of ex-gays and found that 1% of the men and 4% of the women had been clilly prsed durg the prev twelve months.
WHY DO PEOPLE PRETEND THAT THE GAY BEAR SCENE ISN’T AS ROOTED LOOKS AS ANY OTHER GAY SCENE?
Regardls of the half-baked ratnalizatns and “studi” they may posss, homosexual activists are simply aaid of ex-gays, the same manner that ancient Greeks were aaid of the basilisk. Now may be impractil to “nvert” totally om homosexualy to heterosexualy, but if unselg n allow a gay man to rpond sexually to women, should be enuraged and appld, not lambasted or lampooned. In natns where “nversn therapy” has been banned, homosexual activists have liberately approached Christian unselors pretendg to want to bee straight, and have lied to them orr to strip them of their licens.
As one leadg English homosexual activist said, “We want to root out therapists and psychiatrists who are practicg the techniqu and ultimately brg an end to them through exposg them, as well as disptg their meetgs.