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Bears at the 2009 Marcha Gay in Mexico City. In the mid-1980s, gay men in the San Francisco Bay Area who called themselves "bears" met informally at Bear Hug (sex) parties and via the newly emerging Internet. The term "bear" was popularized by Richard Bulger, who, along with his then-partner Chris Nelson (1960–2006), founded Bear Magazine in ...
ISSN. 1049-6521. BEAR Magazine is a periodical geared toward gay and bisexual men who are or admire "bears", stocky or heavyset men with facial and/or body hair. It was initially published in San Francisco, California, in 1987 by Richard Bulger and his partner Chris Nelson and marketed to the bear community within the larger LGBT community.
The Castro was one of the first gay neighborhoods in the United States. [3][4] Having transformed from a working-class neighborhood through the 1960s and 1970s, the Castro remains one of the most prominent symbols of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) activism and events in the world.
Speakeasy Ales & Lagers is a craft brewery that was founded in 1997 by Steve Bruce and Forest Gray in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco, California, USA. [1] The company brands its beers with references to 1930s prohibition -era mobsters and organized crime. Prohibition Ale (an amber ale), the first beer the company produced, and ...
The leather look first emerged in Los Angeles and subsequently was adopted by men in New York City, Chicago and San Francisco in subsequent years. [3] A significant portion of the leather community consisted of queer servicemen and servicewomen returning from WWII, who were congregating in large US-cities after returning to their home country ...
bbhc.com. Big Brother and the Holding Company are an American rock band that was formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane. After some initial personnel changes, the band became well known with the lineup of vocalist Janis ...
The San Francisco LGBT community first fully formed in the 1920s and 1930s. [8] The most prominent LGBT area then was North Beach. [8] Mona's, San Francisco's first lesbian bar, opened on Union Street in 1934, and featured cross-dressing waitresses as well as entertainer Gladys Bentley. [9] Nightclubs with drag shows drew both gay and straight ...
Eric Nord, 1959, Los Angeles. The Hungry I (stylized as hungry i) was a nightclub in San Francisco, California, originally located in the North Beach neighborhood. It played a major role in the history of stand-up comedy in the United States. [1] It was launched by Eric "Big Daddy" Nord, who sold it to Enrico Banducci in 1951.