bear
Sign in to saveAlso known as gay bear, gay bears, bear community, gay bear community, bear culture
term in gay culture for heavily hairy, and usually muscular and bearded men
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- subculture
- Subclass of
- gay men
- Image
- Oslo Pride IMG 9108 (48110322898).jpg
- Flag
- bear flag
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- Commons category
- Bear (gay culture)
- topic's main category
- Category:Bear (gay culture)
- different from
- Ursidae
- social media followers
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Encyclopedic overview
The International Bear Brotherhood Flag, the bear community's pride flag, created by Craig Byrnes in 1995.
A bear is a person who identifies with bear culture, an LGBTQ subculture. Bears are typically gay or bisexual men with a large build and/or body hair; some are overweight, but some are muscular.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bear” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.