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Contents:
- 4 - BEARS GAY CULTURE: HISTORI, DISURS AND ANTHROPOMORPHISM
- CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
- THE LORFUL CULTURE OF THE ISRAELI GAY BEAR MUNY
4 - BEARS GAY CULTURE: HISTORI, DISURS AND ANTHROPOMORPHISM
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One of the many long-standg gay subcultur, a bear an LGBTQIA+ ntext is a large, hairy queer man who self-intifi wh the 'bear' label. The gay tribe for big, hairy, hunky men" (2018-05-18). 2 "Popular Gay Slang Inspired by the Animal Kgdom" (05-04-2016).
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CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
The Bear Book II: Further Readgs the History and Evolutn of a Gay Male Subculture. 1 John Hollywood: "Gay Men: Are You a Jock, Otter, Bear or Wolf? Gay Star News.
Summary The emergence and alignment of gay male culture and sub-culture to the disurse and image of the bear has an uneven and plex history. Gay male bears and the signifitn of the bear are now entrenched the modifitn of gay culture, and many of the social and sexual practic allied to bears problematilly appropriate and subvert both gay and straight male inty polics.
THE LORFUL CULTURE OF THE ISRAELI GAY BEAR MUNY
An implic tramark of gay bear inty ‘is the adoptn of a nventnally mascule appearance and the acpanyg rejectn of the stereotyped notn that gay men nnot monstrate mascule behavur’ (Surha 2002). Yet, many of the social and sexual practic associated wh bear culture unrsre some broar nflicts across gay and straight male culture.
Signifint tensns which exist, such as the relatnship between male social, erotic and sexual sire, the ontologil and psychologil posn of men, patriarchy, hetero-sexism, homophobia, normativy, misogyny, and the problems of discrimatory and tersectnal posns allied to factors such as race, age, class and geography, all unrp the inty of the gay bear.