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Written by mike
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 05:11 |
Nineteen years and sixty-four issues after it first appeared -- as a black and white photocopied zine on the streets of San Francisco -- BEAR Magazine is back from a six-year hibernation and will continue its promotion of the gay masculine aesthetic.
Of course, we sometimes cringe when the bear community refers to its
hirsute members as "real men." Just because our facial scruff looks
like we scotch taped pubic hair to our upper lip doesn't mean we aren't
men too, dammit.
On the other hand, we do suppose that a big hairy worker on the smelt factory assembly man does have bragging rights in an erotic market too often dominated by over-plucked twinksters. And how can we stay angry with a culture that has produced an entire taxonomy, ranging from skinny lean "otters" to big Asian "pandas." Our favorite: "black bears." (Those are, uh, black bears.) Big ole hairy pornstar Jack Radcliffe and his nipples of fire grace the cover of the comeback issue.
Sarah Palin was right: bears are endangered no longer.
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Bear Magazine No. 65 (Bear-Magazine.com)
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