Physil, Behavral, and Psychologil Tras of Gay Men Intifyg as Bears - PMC

Contents:

• GAY BEARS
• PRIVACY POLICYANDCONSENT TO PROCS PERSONAL DATASIMPLIFIED SUMMARYCONTROLLER OF PERSONAL DATA: COSMIC LATTE S.R.O., TABLISHED ACRDANCE WH THE LAWS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC, WH S REGISTERED OFFICE AT ROHANSKé NáBřEží 678/23, KARLíN, 186 00 PRAGUE 8, CZECH REPUBLIC, ID NO. 050 66 891, ENTERED THE COMMERCIAL REGISTER AT THE MUNICIPAL COURT PRAGUE, SECTN C, INSERT 257791.PERSONAL DATA PROCSED: WE PROCS DATA NECSARY FOR PROPER FUNCTNG OF THE GRIZZLY GAY APP, I.E. ALL DATA THAT YOU ENTER TO YOUR PROFILE (SUCH AS YOUR NAME OR DATE OF BIRTH). WE ALSO LLECT RMATN ABOUT YOUR E OF OUR SERVIC, SUCH AS LOTN, ACCS LOG, ACTIVY AND RMATN OM FACEBOOK OR INSTAGRAM (FOR REGISTERG VIA THE SOCIAL WORKS), THAT ARE NECSARY FOR THE PROPER FUNCTNG OF THE GRIZZLY GAY APP AND PERFORMANCE OF OUR NTRACT.YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO LETE OR MODIFY DATA PROVID TO THE GRIZZLY GAY APP OR LETE YOUR ACUNT AT ANY TIME.PURPOS OF PERSONAL DATA PROCSG: WE ARE PROCSG YOUR DATA MALY FOR PROVIDG OUR SERVIC AND FOR THE RIGHT FUNCTNG OF THE GRIZZLY GAY APP AND PERFORMANCE OF OUR NTRACT WH YOU.LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCSG: WE ARE PROCSG YOUR DATA MALY WH RPECT TO PERFORMANCE OF A NTRACT WH YOU, FURTHER BASED ON LEGIMATE TERTS, FOR PLYG WH APPLIBLE LAWS AND BASED ON YOUR NSENT (IF YOU PROVI TO ).OUR LEGIMATE TERTS: THE MA REASONS FOR LLECTG DATA BASED ON LEGIMATE TERTS ARE IMPROVEMENT OF OUR SERVICE, THE SAFETY OF OUR ERS AND ENFORCEMENT OF OUR RIGHTS.CATEGORI OF RECIPIENTS OF THE PERSONAL DATA: WE PROVI RMATN THAT WE PROCS, CLUDG PERSONAL DATA, ONLY THE NECSARY SPE TO THIRD PARTI THAT PROVI WH SERVIC, PARTICULAR, CLOUD DATA CENTERS, SERVIC FOR TOMATIC EVALUATN OF THE NTENT OF PHOTOGRAPHS, MUNITN, DATA HOSTG AND MATENANCE PROVIRS, SERVIC FOR PAYMENT PROCS, SECURY OPERATNS, ANALYTICS SUPPLIERS, APPLITN VELOPERS AND CTOMER RE CENTER SERVICE.TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA: YOUR PERSONAL DATA MIGHT BE TRANSFERRED TO OTHER UNTRI. IN THIS PROCS, WE PAY ATTENTN TO THE HIGHT POSSIBLE DATA PROTECTN PLIANCE WH THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTN REGULATN (GDPR).STORAGE PERD: YOUR PERSONAL DATA ARE STORED ONLY AS LONG AS WE NEED FOR LEGIMATE REASONS AND AS IS REQUIRED BY APPLIBLE LAW. IN MOST S, WE WILL LETE YOUR DATA WH 6 MONTHS OF RECEIVG YOUR REQUT FOR THEIR LETN OR AFTER YOU LETED YOUR ACUNT THE APPLITN.YOUR RIGHTS: YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REQUT TO CHANGE, LETE OR UPDATE (RRECT) YOUR PERSONAL DATA. YOU ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIM THEIR PROCSG, TO OBJECT TO THE PROCSG OF PERSONAL DATA OR/AND TO RECEIVE A PY OF YOUR DATA.RIGHT TO LODGE A PLAT: YOU ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT TO LODGE A PLAT WH RPECTIVE SUPERVISORY THORY.FULL WORDING OF PRIVACY POLICY
• PHYSIL, BEHAVRAL, AND PSYCHOLOGIL TRAS OF GAY MEN INTIFYG AS BEARS
• ROB MORNGWOOD ADVENTURE - GAY BARA RPG

GAY BEARS

This visual intifitn wh the gay bear subculture seems timely, for 2010 appears to be my Ann Ursi, Year of the Bear.

PRIVACY POLICYANDCONSENT TO PROCS PERSONAL DATASIMPLIFIED SUMMARYCONTROLLER OF PERSONAL DATA: COSMIC LATTE S.R.O., TABLISHED ACRDANCE WH THE LAWS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC, WH S REGISTERED OFFICE AT ROHANSKé NáBřEží 678/23, KARLíN, 186 00 PRAGUE 8, CZECH REPUBLIC, ID NO. 050 66 891, ENTERED THE COMMERCIAL REGISTER AT THE MUNICIPAL COURT PRAGUE, SECTN C, INSERT 257791.PERSONAL DATA PROCSED: WE PROCS DATA NECSARY FOR PROPER FUNCTNG OF THE GRIZZLY GAY APP, I.E. ALL DATA THAT YOU ENTER TO YOUR PROFILE (SUCH AS YOUR NAME OR DATE OF BIRTH). WE ALSO LLECT RMATN ABOUT YOUR E OF OUR SERVIC, SUCH AS LOTN, ACCS LOG, ACTIVY AND RMATN OM FACEBOOK OR INSTAGRAM (FOR REGISTERG VIA THE SOCIAL WORKS), THAT ARE NECSARY FOR THE PROPER FUNCTNG OF THE GRIZZLY GAY APP AND PERFORMANCE OF OUR NTRACT.YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO LETE OR MODIFY DATA PROVID TO THE GRIZZLY GAY APP OR LETE YOUR ACUNT AT ANY TIME.PURPOS OF PERSONAL DATA PROCSG: WE ARE PROCSG YOUR DATA MALY FOR PROVIDG OUR SERVIC AND FOR THE RIGHT FUNCTNG OF THE GRIZZLY GAY APP AND PERFORMANCE OF OUR NTRACT WH YOU.LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCSG: WE ARE PROCSG YOUR DATA MALY WH RPECT TO PERFORMANCE OF A NTRACT WH YOU, FURTHER BASED ON LEGIMATE TERTS, FOR PLYG WH APPLIBLE LAWS AND BASED ON YOUR NSENT (IF YOU PROVI TO ).OUR LEGIMATE TERTS: THE MA REASONS FOR LLECTG DATA BASED ON LEGIMATE TERTS ARE IMPROVEMENT OF OUR SERVICE, THE SAFETY OF OUR ERS AND ENFORCEMENT OF OUR RIGHTS.CATEGORI OF RECIPIENTS OF THE PERSONAL DATA: WE PROVI RMATN THAT WE PROCS, CLUDG PERSONAL DATA, ONLY THE NECSARY SPE TO THIRD PARTI THAT PROVI WH SERVIC, PARTICULAR, CLOUD DATA CENTERS, SERVIC FOR TOMATIC EVALUATN OF THE NTENT OF PHOTOGRAPHS, MUNITN, DATA HOSTG AND MATENANCE PROVIRS, SERVIC FOR PAYMENT PROCS, SECURY OPERATNS, ANALYTICS SUPPLIERS, APPLITN VELOPERS AND CTOMER RE CENTER SERVICE.TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA: YOUR PERSONAL DATA MIGHT BE TRANSFERRED TO OTHER UNTRI. IN THIS PROCS, WE PAY ATTENTN TO THE HIGHT POSSIBLE DATA PROTECTN PLIANCE WH THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTN REGULATN (GDPR).STORAGE PERD: YOUR PERSONAL DATA ARE STORED ONLY AS LONG AS WE NEED FOR LEGIMATE REASONS AND AS IS REQUIRED BY APPLIBLE LAW. IN MOST S, WE WILL LETE YOUR DATA WH 6 MONTHS OF RECEIVG YOUR REQUT FOR THEIR LETN OR AFTER YOU LETED YOUR ACUNT THE APPLITN.YOUR RIGHTS: YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REQUT TO CHANGE, LETE OR UPDATE (RRECT) YOUR PERSONAL DATA. YOU ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIM THEIR PROCSG, TO OBJECT TO THE PROCSG OF PERSONAL DATA OR/AND TO RECEIVE A PY OF YOUR DATA.RIGHT TO LODGE A PLAT: YOU ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT TO LODGE A PLAT WH RPECTIVE SUPERVISORY THORY.FULL WORDING OF PRIVACY POLICY

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.

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

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.

ROB MORNGWOOD ADVENTURE - GAY BARA RPG

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.

Burack has ma clear her 2008 book S, Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right, relig fundamentalists hate all equally. I myself have often said I want to be the kd of guy who n punch out a gay-basher and also bake good biscus.

L Wright, former profsor at Mount Ida College near Boston, eded two volumo amic anthologi for Haworth Prs, The Bear Book: Readgs the History and Evolutn of a Gay Male Subculture (1997) and The Bear Book II: Further Readgs the History and Evolutn of a Gay Male Subculture (2001). The two books, along wh Ray Kampf’s whimsil The Bear Handbook (2000), helped fe this new breed of queer masculy, jog a flurry of new perdil tl, such as Daddy, Amerin Grizzly, and Bunkhoe, which veloped this new homomascule ia to a regnizable image. Ron Surha’s groundbreakg 2002 book, Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discsns, which featured gay lerary figur such as David Bergman, Michael Bronski, Richard Labonté, and Mark Thompson, chronicled the many facets of the movement.

Like lots of Appalachians, I’m a big untry mic fan (another passn that has alienated me om mastream gay culture) as well as a lover of Southern food and untry okg. We end up attendg two different shows a lol gay bar and enjoyg ourselv immensely. In the followg year, a fay of bears (Daddy, Mommy, and Baby Bear) broke to gaystream cema as mor characters John Waters’ fetishistic farce, A Dirty Shame.

Bear Cub, a feature-length tragiedia by Spanish bear filmmaker Miguel Albalajo, portrays a gay bear’s relatnship wh his prec nephew and received popular acclaim. A new documentary, Bear Natn, om Small Town Gay Bar filmmaker Mallm Ingram, and the feature-length romantic edy Bear Cy both premiered at the Newft GLBT film ftival June. Such self-intifitn mak feel sirable and valued, long after the youth-obssed mastream gay muny would have put out to pasture.