sizeable gay man. However, their physicality varies depending on the person, and you’ll find many self-identifying gay bears with different degrees of hair, fat, and muscle.
And that brings us to the subcategories manifested in the bear kingdom to enhance community further and help individuals express attraction.
You can trace the origins of the bear identity to an article published in 1979 in the Advocate by George Mazze exploring queer personality stereotypes through zoo animals.
In “Whose Who at the Zoo,” the author equated seven queer personality types to animals, and the profile of bears made the gays run wild.