Preserving our Bear History
Capture the history of the bear movement, so its 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.
Our main activity takes place in our Facebook group, currently. There are two basic membership questions when you ask to join. I’ll follow up with a Facebook message if you don’t answer the questions. (Some people, especially on a mobile device, aren’t asked the questions: (1) Why do you want to join, and (2) do you agree to our basic rules of etiquette.)
Founder, Gay Historian
We’re collecting interviews with Bears, to turn into Stories and Podcasts once we get to a critical mass. See our Interviews page.
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Best current place to contact the Board: on our Facebook page, if you’re a member: Some of the Board members have contact information in their profiles. We also have: For our Interviews, see the forms for release. Look at the Links page.