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Welcome to the Bear History Project Wiki!
Mission Statement
- Capture the history of the bear movement, so it’s not lost as community members leave us.
- Make sure the definition of the Bear Community matches the diversity of its members -- specifically: including: non-North-American, non-Anglo-Saxon (English-speaking) members of beardom.
- Both adding to knowledge of the early days, and highlight new effort to follow the arc from circa 2000 to today—continuities and ruptures, diversifying and splintering
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Content now on its own page!
(Some) Committee members
In Memory
Here we want to highlight some of the bears who have left us. Let us know who you want featured here, and what information is out there: personal memories, pictures, published obituaries, articles and books they're written. As this section grows, we can create a page, with pages added within that, if needed. Started a page to host this content. Here.
Some essential links
Some time soon, we'll break this out into more specific sub-sections, and/or more organization. For now, we're capturing some links.
- Our website: www.bearhistory.org
- Wikipedia: Bear (gay culture) page
- BHPI Facebook page (group is private, for now: ask to join!)
- Our Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/bearhistoryproject/
- Cornell gay archives: Les built. Includes approximately 75 boxes of materials: correspondence, bear run/conference materials, reviews, and so on.
- LA&M. The Leather Archives & Museum. https://leatherarchives.org/
- GLBT Historical Society, HQed in SF, CA. Great resource for queer/ gay artifacts and history. glbthistory.org .
- Bear World Magazine
- Current article, about the BHP!
- Rainbow Quest game: ("Towards a Better World for Everyone") Brian Kaufman. Website: https://rainbowquest.org/ , Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RainbowQuestgame/
- Rainbow Quest game night, 15 February 2022: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=467120928235207
- "Bear events not to miss in 2022" https://www.gaytravel4u.com/bear-events-not-to-miss?fbclid=IwAR0UFDlv61v7QhmPnEZhvePadsxU6z_3fsZH66KLNGt9W0yq7d0WCQWgHic
- Chiron Rising Archives (adult content magazine covers, NSFW) https://chironrisingarchive.home.blog/
- "Chiron Rising started as the Swan magazine in the 1980s and was a magazine for the gay mature community.
- Gay Bear: Taimi wiki. "Great crash course in bears." https://taimi.com/wiki/gay-bear-what-is-it-what-does-it-mean
- Gay & Lesbian Review: Article by Jeff Mann: "Bear Culture 101." https://glreview.org/article/bear-culture-101-no-prerequisite/
- Known LGBTQ Archives in the US, as of September 2023 (courtesy GLBT Historical Society, last edited May 2023, PDF)
You can compare it as the playboy among gay mature men magazines contained profiles and photographies of older men and their admirers, also novels, fictions, artwork and articles about gay life.
- Bear Your Soul, 2023: https://leskwright.com/2023/09/07/bear-your-soul-celebrates-ten-years/
Today it is a historical witness of the gay young/old/mature community from the pre internet era until the beginning of the digital century in the early 2000s."
- "I am (Not) a Gay Bear" article by M.J. Murphy, Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, U of Ill. Springfield. 17 Feb 20198 https://emjaymurphee.medium.com/i-am-not-a-bear-3854127b481c
- Gay camp ground in NE Pennsylvania that does bear events. https://oneidaresort.com
- The Lavender Effect "Join the Movement Advancing the Future of LGBTQ+ Heritage & Culture", curated by BHPI's own Andy Sacher.
- (PRIDE Festival traveling exhibit 2023: https://thelavendereffect.org/pride2023/ )
- Bears In Excess "Bears in Excess is an event that started in April of 2012. The main purpose of the event is so bears, cubs, daddies, chubs, and their admirers who live in the Greater Toronto Area or the many visitors to our lovely city, can go to have some fun in a spa-like setting.", Toronto: https://bearsinexcess.com/
- BHPI member, Diniz Sanchez, Mr. Lisbon Bear Pride 2023, article from July 2023: https://bearworldmag.com/meet-diniz-sanchez-mr-lisbon-bear-pride-2023/?fbclid=IwAR2KdDTd1SWM7hk1u7QI_wrwSrN7wiC2usha9EK9VgrxBb5osdRCfzs1Rpk
Adjacent / brother / sister / sibling organizations communities:
- [RFD] Radical Fairies, Radical Fairies Digest http://rfdmag.org/
- Bears Bulletin Board PDX (private group) https://www.facebook.com/groups/1415110525416141/ from BHPI member Joshua Lewis
- Santa Bear & Friends: (private group) https://www.facebook.com/groups/1534385836883060/ from BHPI member Joshua Lewis.
- "Bring on Bears and Asians (BOBA)" : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1633916313698386/
- Bear Your Soul "Bear Your Soul is a movement of men that grew out of events at Easton Mountain"
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