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Queer folks have always reimagined what masculinity can look like; Zak simply frames it for the mainstream to notice. In Walter Zak’s world, fragility is fierce, strength is silent, and being seen is the sexiest thing of all.

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Over a 5-year period, the magazine grew to an internationally distributed high-gloss format, but still intentionally kept the stark look of Chris' black and white photography.

His camera doesn’t leer; it listens. Example: "Mr. [citation needed] Also, many gay men in rural America never identified with the stereotypical urban gay lifestyle, and went searching for an alternative that more closely resembled the idealized blue collar American male image.

Early Pioneers

Bear Magazine

Richard Bulger, publisher, and his partner, Chris Nelson, started Bear Magazine-originally a photocopied flyer-from their apartment in San Francisco in 1987.

Some older survivors claim that the current Bear culture has become "shallow and catty," which is also their common criticism of mainstream gay culture. Bear clubs often sponsor large yearly events-"Bear runs" or "Bear gatherings" like the annual events such as International Bear Rendezvous, Bear Pride, TBRU, Orlando Bear Bash, drawing regional, national and international visitors.

The contest includes Bear, Daddy, Cub, and Grizzly titles with the contestant who receives the highest score winning the bear title, regardless of what type he is. His art gives space to the softness so often erased, and in doing so, validates a spectrum of queer expression.

As the “boys” series continues, it remains an evolving, evocative celebration of the male form—on queer terms.

The Lone Star became "ground zero" for the incubation of the Bear Community between 1990 and 1993. In a media landscape still saturated with binary gender tropes and rigid expectations, seeing male tenderness spotlighted is a radical act. Some also note a lack of racial diversity in the Bear community, perceiving hirsuteness to be a standard of physical attractiveness that genetically favors white men aesthetically, socially, and sexually among Bears.

Gay Bears are now a mainstream element of the gay community at large because of the community.

Characteristics

As the Bear Culture has matured, it has subdivided itself, and many claim that discrimination has increased within the Bear community as some men who self-identify as "Bears" or "Musclebears" do not welcome higher-bodyfat men (see Chub) at their events.

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It’s time we clean our spaces of those negative behaviors and exclusions.

So, now in 2020 from my home in Chicago, I’m going to bring BearCubHouse.com back. Bear clubs often serve as social and sexual networks for older, hairier, sometimes heavier gay and bisexual men, and members often contribute to their local gay communities through fund-raising and other functions.

Moreover, the proliferation of Bear pageants and their title winners ("sash bears") runs contrary to the early Bear community's identification with and admiration for raw, unself-conscious masculinity.

A Decade Later... Our community still has its share of transphobia, racism, fatphobia, and other derogatory messes as does the mainstream gay community, which is ironic for a community intended to buck the mold.

Lumberjacks appealed to gay men at aesthetic levels but also for the fact that they were working class, and for the fact that their isolation from urban society (and hence from mainstream gay culture) opened up a fantasy of both secrecy and liberation, within an idyllic, rural, North American setting. As Bears have become more common in the larger gay culture, and as more gay and bisexual men identify themselves as Bears, Bears have not segregated themselves as much as they once did.

Bears are typically very similar in appearance to the ideal of the North American lumberjack. A New Hope... 

It was in 2009 when the concept for BearCubHouse.com came about, when myself and my boyfriend at the time were getting increasingly bothered by how many felt that the websites that served the bear community were growing the divides that the brotherhood intended to not engage in.

In 2010 we launched, and for about two years we operated a social media network that focused on inclusivity regardless of size or race.

They have kept the parts of the bear community they liked but then turned the rest into a beauty contest and seemingly all the advertising is the same.