HCB celebrating 30th Anniversary for its Bear Essentials at the 2026 Sydney Mardi Gras
Introduction: The Harbour City Bears (HCB) are celebrating their 30th anniversary of bringing positive vibes to the bear community since…
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Bear History
An Interview with Becky Moss, Honorary Mama Bear
Get to know the bear community’s honorary mama bear, Becky Moss, in this insightful interview with Les K Wright and…
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Scholars, Students and Researchers Unite for the Bear Studies Symposium
Are you interested in big, hairy men? Then this free 3-hour online event (Wednesday May 14th, 2025) is for you!…
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Back to Our Roots: Catching Up with the Bears of San Francisco
Members of the Bears of San Francisco join us for a discussion about the current bear scene in SF and…
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Bear Tracks: Bear Culture
In the broadest sense, culture encompasses social behavior, institutions, and cultural norms (what is considered acceptable behavior). Cultural universals are…
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Bear Tracks: Tim Barela
In this installment of Bear Tracks Les K Wright tells us about Tim Barela, the beloved cartoon artist and creator…
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Bear Tracks: Coming Out in the Soc.Motss Era: Satori Agape
Launched in 1979, in the earliest days of the internet, Usenet was the first nongovernmental platform-agnostic computer communication network. Several…
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Bear Tracks: Bears and Class
When Eric Rofes submitted his essay “Academics as Bears: Thoughts on Middle-Class Eroticization of Workingmen’s Bodies” to The Bear Book…
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Bear Tracks: Community
In this edition of Bear Tracks Les K Wright analyzes the many different definitions of what a community is and…
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Bear Tracks: Provincetown Bear Week
On summer break in August 1976 my partner Dennis and I went to visit friends of his in Boston. I…
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Bear Tracks: The Rise and Spread of German Bear Culture
In 2004 Querverlag, a gay book publishing company in Berlin, published Der Bärenkult: Das Tier im Mann (The Bear Cult:…
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Bear Tracks: Bears of Color and Identity Politics in the 21st Century
For the better part of my life in the Bear and Leather community I have experienced highs and lows, My…
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DJ Glovibes on Bears, Music and the Expansion of MEGAWOOF AMERICA
MEGAWOOF AMERICA and Bear World Magazine go way back, but we’ve never done an in-depth interview with the man that’s…
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Bear Tracks: Leather Bears
“By its very nature,” Mark Thompson wrote in his 1991 landmark anthology, Leatherfolk,“S/M is a topic infused with ambiguity and…
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Bear Tracks: XXL Club London
If you’ve even been to London you have no doubt heard of the legendary XXL. It was the largest bear…
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Bear Tracks: Jacques Zonne and the Organization of the First Dutch Bears
For this installment of “Bear Tracks” Les K Wright invites guest columnist Jacques Zonne to give us his firsthand account…
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Bear Tracks: Taking Inventory
As I write today I am basking in the limelight of being the cover bear du jour. I thank Bear…
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Bear Tracks: Bear Masculinity
From the start gay bears have embraced and manifested a paradoxical masculinity. We have both embraced and celebrated a “natural”…
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Bear Tracks: The Eclectic Origins of Bear Spirituality
This column is intended to serve as an introduction to the emergence of bear spirituality, and not a promotion of…
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Bear Tracks: Hairy Bears
In Western cultures beards and body hair have long been regarded as a mark of masculine virility. In Japanese culture,…
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