By Cubby T Gruff and ready gays have been earning their stripes at Hibearnation for the past twenty-seven years, and the legendary Show-Me Bears will make no exception of 2025. Spanning Halloween weekend from Thursday, October 30 through the wee hours of the morning on Monday, November 3, Hibearnation 28 will be stuffed with events…
Bear Season in St. Louis Begins Oct. 31: HiBearNation 25
Hundreds of rooms are booked at the host hotel, and guests from as far away as Australia are making their way to St. Louis for one of the world’s largest bear gatherings: HiBearNation 25. This will be the 25th year the Show Me Bears have put on this major event, and HiBearNation 25 Chairman D.…
Where the Bears Are: Show Me Bears at the Quarter-Century Mark
Twenty-five years ago, when the Show Me Bears first became an official organization, the moniker conjured forth images of big guys who proudly sported beer bellies, beards and lots of body hair. In the early 1990s, when gays in the military would have been an off-the-charts hashtag had hashtags existed, there was something intriguingly subversive…