books of Bear interest


Lethe's gay titles include an array of gay-positive novels, poetry, erotica and literature for gay men & lesbians. Lethe's new imprint, Bear Bones Books, will offer fiction and non-fiction titles about Gay Men's Bear Identity. Lethe is one of the world's leading publishers of gay and lesbian spirituality, poetry, and independent fiction. Below is a list of Lethe Press's books of interest to Bears.












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Bear Bones Books

Bear Bone Books is an imprint of Lethe Press, featuring books about gay rural life and/or books about Bear Identity. Ron Suresha is editor of Bear Bones Books

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Bears on Bears:
Interviews & Discussions (Revised edition)
By Ron Suresha

Revealing, challenging, often humorous, Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions examines the homomasculine subculture called Bears.

In 30 wide-ranging interviews, these 62 gay and bisexual men expose their furrier side. They reveal their experiences as gay, bi, and trans Bears and Bear-lovers who find their physical image and personal lifestyle at odds with stereotypically ephebic, effeminate, fashion-obsessed gay male culture. Finding intimate affirmation within the increasingly international Bear brotherhood, they discuss coming-out as Bears and the early history of Bear subculture.

Contributors include comedian Bruce Vilanch, “Survivor” Richard Hatch, model Jack Radcliffe, and authors David Bergman, Michael Bronski, Jack Fritscher, Wayne Hoffman, Arnie Kantrowitz, Richard Labonté, Dr. Lawrence Mass, Eric Rofes, Mark Thompson, and Les K. Wright.

Acclaimed by Andrew Sullivan on Salon.com as “the invaluable book” on Bears, the revised edition of Bears on Bears features fresh interviews with filmmakers Kevin Bowe and Dan Hunt, radio personality Larry Flick, author Jonathan Cohen, and Metropolitan Community Church founder Rev. Troy Perry.

Bears on Bears confronts conventional images of male beauty and contemporary concepts of masculinity in a moving and colorful portrait of a men’s community that makes for fas
cinating reading on many levels.
Bear Bones Book
328 pages
ISBN 1-59021-244-4
          978-1-59021-244-8


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Edge:
Travels of an Appalachian Leather Bear

By Jeff Mann

The autobiographical essays in Edge offer insight into the passions of acclaimed author Jeff Mann. These memories, insightful as they are endearing, range from his boyhood obsession with the gothic allure of Dark Shadows, to the doubt and pain of being a Southerner and so at the edge of the gay community, and the appeal of leather bars and bear culture.

Mann also visits many gay meccas in several of these essays—the resorts of Key West, Provincetown, and Rehoboth Beach, along with several European destinations such as Germany, Ireland, Belgium, and Scotland, have important cameos. But he is never an idle traveler—he is challenged by his experiences, and his observations reveal the thoughts of many gay men. Along the way Mann ruminates on a variety of subjects, from lost lovers to kilts, theophany, Sylvia Plath, adult videos, and bathhouses.




Bear Bones Book
208 pages

ISBN 1-59021-059-X
          978-1-59021-059-8


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Look for Upcoming releases of
Ron Suresha's choice picks of Bear titles from

Bear Bones Books
An imprint of Lethe Press

Edge: Travels of an Appalachian Leather Bear
by Jeff Mann

Bears on Bears: Interviews &
Discussions, 2nd rev. edition

by Ron Suresha

Bearotica: Hot, Hairy, Heavy Fiction
edited by R. Jackson

Bear Lust: More Hot, Hairy Fiction
edited by R. Jackson

Bears in Heat: Hot Macho Fiction
edited by R. Jackson

The Limits of Pleasure
by Daniel M. Jaffe