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Perhaps we should start when I was 11 and I had just got my chubby little fingers on a local queer magazine and was flipping through, ravenous for any glimmer of the unknown gay world outside of my very conservative household in rural Arizona.

Search Search. r/bearbros: This is a community for the LGBTQ+ Bears, Cubs, Chubs, otters, and chasers. Though it may be covered in hair and a tad more heavyset, fatphobia is alive and well in bear bars. Menu Menu. Art Read Me All Culture.

I am here to be the bear I wanted those bears from my past to be, the bear who is truly accepting of all and who only longs to make the world a better, queerer, and more fashionable place. Now, that is what I want everyone to bear in mind. Entertainment Expand.

Beauty Fashion All Style. Bears are typically gay or bisexual men with a large build and body hair; many are overweight, but some are muscular. Thanks, mom. Community Expand. Culture Expand. Where does one even begin to tell the burly year-long tale of being a bear?

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How about we take on the blatantly toxic masculinity in the bear community? Search Close. You can share stories, links, photos, art, selfies, etc. Anything more than an average dad-bod or slightly chubby figure seems to stir up a sense of disdain from the majority of goers.

Ryan not only knighted me as a bear, but told stories of this whole world of fuzzy, chubby, Corbin-like dudes who had their very own citizenry. The National Park Service is currently celebrating 'Fat Bear Week' – but to gay men that means something very different.

The International Bear Brotherhood Flag, the bear community's pride flag, created by Craig Byrnes in [1] A bear is a person who identifies with bear culture, an LGBTQ subculture. When I was finally of age, I made my way to my first bear bar.

[2] In LGBTQ slang, the term bear is also used as a neutral descriptor for a large and hairy.