Salutations and Greetings! After a year of being
hopelessly out of date, I've decided to update these pages.
Name's Chris here and I'd like to
thank PANIX for hosting my pages and
providing excellent service. If you're in the market for
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account, feel free to check them out.
In January of 2008 I moved to San Francisco, CA to start work
with
VMWare as a QA software
engineer. Since then I've made many new friends in and around
the Bay Area. I've fallen in love with the area and think that
San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities I've ever
lived in.
Bears
I'm a bear. No, I don't suffer from some sort of delusion
that I'm really a four-footed creature with a propensity for
sleeping all winter. Generally, a bear is a gay man who
identifies with himself with the hirsute. The Resources for Bears
website describes a bear as thus:
The most common definition of a "bear" is a
man who is hairy, has facial hair, and a cuddly body.
However, the word "Bear" means many things to different
people, even within the bear movement. Many men who do not
have one or all of these characteristics define themselves
as bears, making the term a very loose one. Suffice it to
say, "bear" is often defined as more of an attitude than
anything else - a sense of comfort with our natural
masculinity and bodies that is not slavish to the vogues of
male attractiveness that is so common in gay circles and
the culture at large.
Personally, my favorite definition of a bear is a "warm
fuzzy". Would you believe that came from my mother?