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Catalina Video has a bear-themed line, the "Furry Features Series". It offers T-shirts and other accessories as well as calendars and porn movies and magazines featuring bear icons, e.g., Jack Radcliffe. The bear community constitutes a specialty niche in the commercial market. Most gay oriented campgrounds now include some type of bear-related event during their operating season. Bear events have become very common, to include smaller-sized cities and many rural areas. Bear clubs often serve as social and sexual networks for their members, who can contribute to their local gay communities through fund-raising and other functions. The bear community has spread all over the world, with bear clubs in many countries. The Bear History Project is archived in the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University. Publication of The Bear Book led to the Library of Congress adding "bear" as a category. It became the source material for much of The Bear Book (1999) and The Bear Book II (2001). Wright in 1995, documented the emergence and early evolution of bear identity and bear community. The Bear History Project, founded by Les L. The International Bear Brotherhood Flag is the pride flag of the bear community. Gay " leather-bears" have competed in leather contests, and "muscle-bears" are another subculture noted by their muscular body mass. The contest included Bear, Daddy, Cub, and Grizzly titles with the contestant who received the highest score winning the bear title, regardless of what type he was. Bear was held in 1992, and the last was held in 2011. It attracted contestants, often with local titles, from all over the world.
Bear, formerly held each February at the International Bear Rendezvous in San Francisco. One example of a bear contest was International Mr. This footage is no longer for sale, as Fritscher declined to shift to DVD format and shut down the video company. A bear contest is a feature at many bear events, a sort of masculine beauty pageant awarding titles and sashes (often made of leather) to winners. His work includes documentary footage of the first bear contest (Pilsner Inn, February 1987). For Palm Drive, Fritscher wrote, cast, and directed more than 150 video features. Palm Drive Video expanded in 1996 to Palm Drive Publishing, San Francisco. As well, with producer Mark Hemry in 1984, Fritscher co-founded the pioneering Palm Drive Video featuring homomasculine entertainment. With California Action Guide, Fritscher became the first editor to publish the word "bear" (with the gay culture meaning) on a magazine cover (November 1982). Jack Fritscher was the founding editor of San Francisco's California Action Guide (1982). Wright, was the first article to appear in print, in Drummer magazine, edited by Jack Fritscher. "Sociology of the Urban Gay Bear", written by Les K. Many LGBT events attract a significant bear following, such as Southern Decadence in New Orleans. Louis, Missouri, SF Bear Weekend, CBL's Bear Hunt, Bear Pride in Chicago, Atlanta Bear Pride, Texas Bear Round Up (TBRU) in Dallas, Orlando Bear Bash, and Bear Week in Provincetown (since 2001), drawing regional, national and international visitors. Bear clubs often sponsor large yearly events – "bear runs" or "bear gatherings" – like the annual events such as Southern HiBearNation in Melbourne, Bear Pride and Bear Essentials in Sydney, Bearstock in Adelaide, HiBearNation in St. Many clubs are loosely organized social groups others are modeled on leather biker-patch clubs, with a strict set of bylaws, membership requirements, and charities. Īt the onset of the bear movement, some bears separated from the gay community at large, forming "bear clubs" to create social and sexual opportunities of their own. George Mazzei wrote an article for The Advocate in 1979 called "Who's Who in the Zoo?", that characterized gay men as seven types of animals, including bears.
The term "bear" was popularized by Richard Bulger, who, along with his then partner Chris Nelson (1960–2006), founded Bear Magazine in 1987. In the mid-1980s, gay men in the San Francisco Bay Area who called themselves "bears" met informally at Bear Hug (sex) parties and via the newly-emerging Internet. Bears at the 2009 Marcha Gay in Mexico City