Literary and Academic

The Bear Book II

THE BEAR BOOK II:
Further Readings in the History and
Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture
Edited by Les Wright, Ph.D.
Harrington Park Press 2001
ISBN 0-7890-0636-7

CONTENTS
Foreword by Jack Fritscher
Introduction by Les Wright

PART 1: BEAR BODIES
"Bears and Health" Lawrence D. Mass
"Fat Is a Bearish Issue" Laurence Brown
"Bear Youth" an interview with Brian Kearns, Bear Youth Webmaster"
"By Any Otter Name: The Negative space of the Bear" John Milton Hendricks
"The Beard of Joseph Palmer" Stewart Holbrook

PART II: BEAR TESTIMONIES
"A Bear Admirer's (Subjective, Fluffy, and Totally Honest) Point of View" Ned Wilkinson
"A Puerto Rican Bear in the USA" Ali Lopez
"One Black Bear Speaks" Jason R. Clark
"An Asian Bear in Minnesota" Dave Gan
"The Epehebe Dead--Long Live the Bear" David Greig
"Parlaying Playmates Into Lasting Friendships" John R. Yoakam

PART III: MORE BEAR SPACES
"Theorizing Bearspace" Alex G Papadopoulos
"Paws Between Two Worlds: Bears and the Leather Community" Robert B. Marks Ridinger
"Gen-X Bears International" John-Paul Patrick Kucera
"The Bear-A-Tones" an interview with David Salinas
"East Coast Bear Hugz" Tim Goecke
"The Bears Mailing List, Part 2" an interview with Henry Mensch

PART IV: BEAR CLUB SCENE
"A Bear's Autobiography" Jim Parton
"Bear Contests" Les Wright
"A Short History of Bear Clubs in Iowa: The Bear Paws of Iowa and the Ursine Group" Larry Toothman
"Houston Area Bears" Mitch Froehlich
"The Bears Come to Rochester" John O. Noble
"A Short History of the Brisbears" Peter Sharman

PART V: MORE BEARS ABROAD
"A Bear Voice from Turkey" Mehmet Ali Sahin
"Falstaff's Legacy: The Bears of Albion" Howard Watson
"The Rise of the Australian Bear Community Since 1995" Seumas Hyslop

PART VI: BEARS IN MEDIA

"You Can Lead a Bear to Culture, but…or Bears in Literature and Culture" a discussion with David Bergman and Michael Bronski edited by Ron Suresha
"Laid Bear: Masculinity with All the Trappings" Thomas McCann
"In Goldilock's Footsteps: Exploring the Diverse Construction of Gay Masculinity in Bear Magazines" Elizabeth A. Kelly and Kate Kane

APPENDIX

Early Published Writing on Bears by Les Wright