What is This Bear of Which You Speak?

Thanks to Joe.My.God for the mention today. And yeah, I know what you guys really want is some damn evidence. So I give you bears in pastels and bears in underwear. The first video I come on at 2:55 in my lime green poncho. The second video I come down the ramp at 1:08, without the poncho. (videos by DJ Rotten Robbie)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7X2lYTf6do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN79pmxrkIY

I’m still working on a little story to tell you about the show.

A reporter at the SF Chronicle interviewed me before and after the runway. Then last night she called me with a follow-up question. “Um,” she said, “What exactly is a BEAR?”

The $64,000 question, one that I had been pondering even more than usual over the past week. I was just about to step into the theater to see a play, and I had about a minute to answer. I hit the usual talking points:

  • facial scruff
  • body hair
  • a more liberal body fat percentage than one sees in most media images of gay men
  • a fairly relaxed, mostly welcoming attitude, at least here in San Francisco (yeah yeah there are bear bitches, fiercely patrolling the fringes of the type and informing various transgressors of the bear qualities they lack, but I’m speaking in generalities)
  • then I sort of launched into my little speech about being a writer and irritated by labels, and questioning my own membership in this community and and and…
  • I think if she could do it all over again, she’d pick a non-writer to interview
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Posted May 11th, 2010 in daily, you're so vain.

10 comments:

  1. Chad:

    Yahoo. Congrats. The 2nd video is like a preview of IML in a few weeks. Woof!

    May 11th, 2010 at 10:18 am
  2. dogpoet:

    Hopefully at IML they will pull out slightly different outfits.

    May 11th, 2010 at 10:33 am
  3. Boomer:

    WOOF! Congrats! How does it feel to be one of the “pretty girls”?

    May 11th, 2010 at 10:56 am
  4. Scoobs:

    Looking good…

    Wait, are they going to be at IML? (Are *you* going to be at IML?)

    May 11th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
  5. dogpoet:

    That’s what I plan to write about :)

    May 11th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
  6. dogpoet:

    A couple of them might be at IML, but I think he just meant that they look like the kind of guys who would go. Unfortunately I can’t make it to IML this year. Maybe next.

    May 11th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
  7. Jon:

    This will certainly raise your Q Rating. Now’s the time to capitalize on your rising Q and demand a re-release of that xxx video I recall reading about!

    May 12th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
  8. Deb:

    Am I just biased in thinking that if there is a competition involved, you should win?

    You could have just said to the reporter, “think Oregon lumberjack in pastels.” =)

    May 12th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
  9. dogpoet:

    I still tell that story all the time, how you thought the bears in Dolores Park looked like the lumberjacks back home. They would have wet themselves to hear that.

    May 12th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
  10. Patrick:

    Looking damn sexy !! (-;

    May 13th, 2010 at 6:00 pm

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