Bear Tracks: Bears Come to Europe
Although extinct for centuries in Europe, the bear is deeply engrained in every European culture. It has a long pedigree…
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Bear Tracks: Bears Down Under
If you were to ask an Ozzie or a Kiwi about bears (the animal) in Australia or New Zealand, they…
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Bear Tracks: The cultural Influence of BEAR Magazine
In 1987 I came across a photocopied ‘zine in a gay bookstore in San Francisco. Popular in the 1980s, zines…
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Bear Tracks: Cybearspace, Personal Ads and the Bear Code
Once upon a time, for a long time before the advent of the Digital Age, gay men placed personal ads…
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Bear Tracks: The Mythic Bear Clan
Bears are found all over the northern hemisphere and native peoples have ascribed a variety of attributes and powers to…
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Bear Tracks: The Life and Work of Leathersex Pioneer Jack Fritscher
Jack Fritscher (b. 1939; PhD, 1967) is best known for his pioneering role in the leathersex community. His presence and…
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Bear Tracks: Crawford Barton and the Golden Age of Gay Awakening
In my last column I talked about the clarion call that went out from gay San Francisco in the 1970s….
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Bear Tracks: Origins of Bear Culture Part 2 – The Genius of Place
San Francisco is a magical place, a peninsula surrounded on three sides by water and one by the imagination. Since…
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Bear Tracks: The Murky Origins of Bear Culture Part 1
**Editor’s Note** Bear World Magazine is honored and thrilled to be working with Bear historian Les K Wright who has…
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