New Horizons For Fifty - A Different View of Things

This is the second part of the innerview that Liam did with me a couple weeks ago. The words that follow have even more resonance than when I first answered them.         What inspired you to become a bigger part of this community?      I started going to more Bear events (den parties and dinner nights), but the Leather side was more latent, mostly relegated to sex (that would change), while being a Bear spoke more to both my physical side  and personality. I have always identified as a Leatherbear, because I came into both communities within six months of each other. Bears San Diego was having their New Years party, this year at the club President's house. That night changed my life, because I met the man who would collar me and who I would call Daddy, but I'll save the details of that for a later next interview. Over the next year, through his mentorship, I became a member-at-large in Bears San Diego and then Vice President of San Diego Lea...

  Innerview With A Bear. (Questions by Liam Troy, answers by Eric Crow)      Disclaimer: I speak for no one else's perspective but my own. Other people will have difference views of the same subject, and I always want to hear from them.      Not too long ago, I was chatting with Liam Troy, one of the more active members of Cubs Club of California. He competed for Mr. Bear LA last September, and I was taken by him and impressed with his energy and presence. We were talking about Bear community history, and he expressed frustration at not having much information about our history. Later that week, I posed a question on the Cubs Club FB group page, asking people how much Bear community history they knew, and the majority of people who answered chose the “just a few things” option. This concerned and frustrated me. It concerned me because our community has a rich, dynamic history, and our methods and reasons for doing things serve very specific purpose, an...