I recently caught the documentary Bear Nation at a gay and lesbian film festival. It’s about the international community of ‘bears’ – heavy gay gentlemen, generally furry – but also about their fans and about how they relate to other gay men.The topic fascinated me because of the idea of a subculture within a subculture and because I was interested to see how it would frame the generally very lookist gay scene and the bears’ place in it.… Read the rest