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Advocate NL 8/14/26

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Happy Friday folks! Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez here, back in your inbox with an intriguing piece from Ariel Messman-Rucker . Larger, hairier gay men who felt excluded from mainstream gay culture and its obsession with smooth skin and a low body fat percentage formed their own community in the late 1970s and dubbed themselves “bears.” Larger, hairier gay men who felt excluded from mainstream gay culture and its obsession with smooth skin and a low body fat percentage formed their own community in the late 1970s and dubbed themselves “bears,” Ariel writes . In the decades since, the bear community has thrived. There are magazines, events, and cruises all dedicated to bears and those who love them. But as revolutionary new weight-loss drugs called GLP-1s, like Zepbound, Wegovy, Ozempic, and Mounjaro, grow in popularity, a question comes to mind: Are the bears alright? The answer, it turns out, is complicated, as Ariel gives us an excellent in-depth loo k . Speaking of answers: will the

First report: Gay bear culture survived body fascism. It can survive Ozempic — advocate.com, 1d