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Why are baseball caps so popular in the gay bear community? Is it some sort of updated hanky code? I always see pictures of gay bears wearing baseball caps. | | To cover up their bald spots. | What would you call a gay bear? What if there was a bear that you knew was actually gay? What would you call it?
Creativity appreciated.
Thanks! | Care-Bear.
<:D ? | What is a bear or daddy? and what's the diffence between a common gay or effeminate gay? I have heard bears or daddies are old man and what about a common gay or effeminate gay? a bear was an effeminate gay man or what was before to reach that age of old man? what's a jock and twink? please explain me thank you. | OK, bears are guys who are hearded and hairy and generally of large stature. They may be fat and messy too, but that's not a necessary part of the look. They can be any age, though younger bears are often called cubs.
Daddies are older men in relationships with younger men. They are kinda like cougars. Think "sugar daddy" and you get the idea but the younger man in a relationship is not always or often a gold digger.
Twinks are young gay guys in their teens or early 20s who look young. They may or may not be effeminate.
Jocks are guys who are athletic. You know, as in jock strap? They are into looking fit.
I'm sorry, I don't understand your question what's the difference between a common gay or effeminate gay? They just act differently, that's all. Most gay guys act like anyone else, some act effeminate. What more is there to say?
| How come there is no latino/hispanic gay bear porn? The only latino/hispanic men in gay porn are super skinny guys. I can not find any chubby spanish guys in gay porn. Every spanish guy in my city is chubby, and some of them have to be gay. Why can't anyone get them to take their clothes off for a camera? | | The market is much smaller for that type of porn and directors want to appeal to the greatest amount of potential customers. | Can someone explain the gay bear culture to me, I heard it's like like orthodox in the gay community? I'm puzzled because there are so many sub-groups in the gay community that I can't keep up anymore. | Bear is LGBT slang for those in the bear communities, a subculture in the gay/bisexual male communities and an emerging subset of LGBT communities with events, codes and culture-specific identity. It also describes a physical type.
Bears tend to have hairy bodies and facial hair; some are heavy-set; some project an image of working-class masculinity in their grooming and appearance, though none of these are requirements or unique indicators. Some bears place importance on presenting a hypermasculine image and may shun interaction with, and even disdain, men who exhibit effeminacy.[1] The bear concept can function as an identity, an affiliation, and an ideal to live up to, and there is ongoing debate in bear communities about what constitutes a bear, however a consensus exists that inclusion is an important part of the Bear Community [2][3] . Bear culture helps in the eroticisation of obesity - something very necessary given modern physiques. There is also, anecdotally, more acceptance of tattoos and body piercing in the bear community.
Bears are almost always gay or bisexual men, although increasingly transgender men (transmen) and those who shun labels for gender and sexuality are also included within bear communities.
ORIGINS:
The International Bear Brotherhood flag designed in 1995 by Craig Byrnes (VA Copyright 760-763), digital graphic by Paul Witzkoske for Bear Manufacturing[4]
The International Bear Brotherhood flag flown beside the Rainbow Flag
A bear group marching in San Francisco Pride in 2004
Bear in LGBT communities is a metaphorical reference to the animal of the same name with similar notable features. These features include the animal's hairiness, its solid proportions, and its physical power. The bear is both fat and powerful, and the reconciliation of these two qualities is at the heart of the Bear concept's appeal. Bears are typically very similar in appearance to the ideal of the North American lumberjack. A romantic conflation of the bear and the lumberjack image provides the Bear trope its metaphorical appeal.
Lumberjacks were romanticised and fetishised in gay culture long before the arrival of the Bear concept, and the Bear concept retains strong traces of this older ideal. Lumberjacks appealed to gay men at aesthetic levels but also for reason of their homosociality, 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. These metaphors also lends themselves to the idealization of natural physical appearance and preferences over a more glamorized ones despite the convenience many bears may find living in urban settings.
The self-identification of gay men as Bears originated in San Francisco in the 1980s as an outgrowth of gay biker clubs like the Rainbow Motorcycle Club, and then later the leather and "girth and mirth" communities. It was created by men who felt that mainstream gay culture was unwelcoming to men who did not fit a particular "twink" body norm (hairless and young).[citation needed] Also, many gay men in rural America never identified with the stereotypical urban gay lifestyle, and went searching for an alternative which more closely resembled the idealised blue collar American male image. | If a gay teen identifies with the gay Bear Community, what would he be labeled as? A teen wolf? A fetal bear? If a gay teenager identifies strongly with the gay Bear Community (a subculture with many labels such as bear, cub, wolf, and others) and has minute chest hairs beginning to grow, what might he be labeled as? A teen wolf? A fetal bear? A fetal cub? A bear-in-waiting? Or would he just be called a chaser? Please only answer if you know what I'm talking about. | You're thinking into it too much, haha.
Young bears are cubs.
That applies to the man-teen variety as well.
Cubs. | What is a 'Bear' is the gay/lesbian World? I was watching the Gay and Lesbian Madri Gras In Sydney, Australia just recently and they kept on mentioning 'bears?
Watching an old episode of All Saints where a transexual comes into the ER. The Doctor in charge. A big, bloke was called a 'bear' too.
So can someone please confirm what a 'bear is? | | That's not for lesbian. Only gays. It means gay men who is big and hairy so that called 'bear' | What are the chances for a closeted gay "bear" guy to find someone and build a relationship? I mean, can you trust chatrooms? I wouldn't go to gay bars, I'm not out yet, I'm working on it, but I'm not not coming out anytime soon, I'm 24 chubby hairy type, so not as old to be considered a bear, and not muscled, to be a muscled bear, so I'm kind of used to rejection from others, but I don't think I'd stand it one more. So,,, can you trust chatrooms?,,, or should I just sit here and wait for time to go by? | So you're a cub in the closet, huh?
Well, the good news is that there are plenty of guys into your body type, so it shouldn't be too hard to find a chatroom for bears, cubs, and their admirers.
Chatrooms are like a bus. Some of the people in them are more attractive than others. Some are more trustworthy than others. Some are nicer, some are smarter... you get the drift. The only way to figure it out is to get on the bus and start talking to people.
I should warn you, though, you're probably not going to build a good relationship from inside the closet. Most people don't have the patience for someone who can't be authentic and honest. In that sense, you're probably your own biggest obstacle to getting what you want, so what stops you from coming out?
At 24, I think you've probably waited for enough time to go by. If my experience is anything like yours, when you finally do come out, you'll regret not having done so a lot sooner.
Good luck. | Are any members of the metal band I Wrestled A Bear Once gay/lesbian/bisexual? I bought this I Wrestled A Bear Once shirt and it has big metalic rainbow print on it that says
"Metal Just Got Gay
iwrestledabearonce"
and my vice principal wont let me wear it becuase it is "dorogitory" "offensive" and until i prove that one of the members is gay/lesbian/bisexual i can no longer wear the shirt. Answers are appreciated. thanks. | On Krysta's Formspring she said "We made that shirt as a joke... some real jackass who probably lives in his mom's basement & jerks off to nothing but other dudes in corpse paint wrote that about us on a forum."
But I doubt that any of the members are gay... | Is Tigger on Pooh bear, gay or straight? I know Pooh bear and piglet are kinda stupid, but tigger just makes me think he's gay. Is it true? im very serious about this question, even though it sounds stupid. | | Can't tell because they are all under age and there isn't anyone their kind for the coupling to happen. |
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