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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Hot off the press is the latest issue of 100% BEEF Mag (website - articles - profile), and that would issue #39 (cover).

Some really great looking men in this issue, like Clint Taylor who's been in many a Bear movie, a well known Bear model. Then there's the real hot Devlin Michaels.And on the cover: Bill... triple woof. Bill is a 50 year old Daddy from San Fran. Overall, this is a real handsome looking issue. Oh, and from what I read from the editorial, we might be seeing some more leather... very cool. You can find a copy of BEEF Mag probably at your nearest adult store, or the best way is to simply order a subscription from their site.

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Friday, November 7, 2008

It's wild to think of it but another year is about to wrap up very soon. '09 is upon us... this is the 1st New Year party mentioned so far on PlanetBears. If you have an event and run a bar or are part of a Bear group, send in your news and we'll be glad to post it.

From the Bearracuda hunks: "After 2 years of sold out New Year's parties, we are so happy to 'again' give our guys the best bang for their Bear buck this NYE. For the past two years we've brought you great DJ's who have made their mark on the Bay Area. This year we bring you an amazing talent that has never played here. Making his San Francisco debut, we present: DJ Francisco Guerra (check out his podcasts)". This event will be taking place on Wednesday, December 31st at Turk in San Francisco and it is sponsored by Big Muscle Bears & 100% BEEF Mag.

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Thursday, November 6, 2008

[members - click here] I've been an FOGB for years... what... you don't know what an FOGB is...? It stands for 'Fan of GagBear'... which I've been. Actually, I've been an FOGB for well over a decade... drooling over GagBears' photos and videos that he's produced.

His name is Jim Grrowl yet he's better known as GagBear. I first came across his pictures online back in '95 or so on this wicked site called 'Big Ad'. Now Big Ad was first a magazine with ads from Bears and Chubs, and they were one of the very 1st companies to try and market their product online. They had a great site which they updated every so often with photos of cute guys that were in their mag. Unfortunately the site, as well as the magazine, went defunct (reasons unknown), however I did copy/pasted those photos of Jim GagBear and kept them on my hard drive because these pics were some of the very first 'Bear bondage' photos that I saw on the net.

It wasn't until '02 (7 years later) when I came across more of Jim GagBear's material. This time he was working with a couple of guys who made a few videos under the company name 'Realman Kink Video'. I contacted Jim for the 1st time and he turned out to be one of the nicest and coolest guys I spoke to online. I asked him if he was the same guy from the Big Ad spread, and he said he was, and that's when my admiration for this man began.

At the time I was working on Bear-Pics so I helped him promote their videos, yet the company didn't last long and they ceased production. However GagBear went on to a spread in Beef Mag, photo shoots for BearBound, and lately he has been making his own videos which you can purchase from his site BD Bear Studios.

GagBear has sent me many photos which I used to have up on Bear-Pics and I decided to bring them over to the PlanetBears Galleries. You can see them here (there's just over 200 photos). On a personal note: I've always hoped to work with him on a photo shoot, and we were supposed to meet up at one point in '02, however his schedule didn't permit it, and since he's 3000 miles away... well... sometimes things aren't all that easy to organize. For now, I'll just have to admire GagBear like the rest of y'all; thru the pics he puts out on the net, and thank Heaven for that.

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Friday, October 24, 2008
Some upcoming news from Bearracuda (articles). Firstly, this is a party that takes place in San Francisco which takes place the 1st and 3rd Saturday every month at Deco. There's free massages, good tunes and a lot of very good looking men. However on December 13th, they will also be in Seattle (following Bear Crawl which will be taking place on December 12th). Also make sure to check out their New Year's Eve bash, sponsored by Big Muscle Bears and Beef Mag.

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
PlanetBears got a Beefy Oops... in the latest Beef Mag #38. You see, in the previous issue, Beef (website - profile) did a feature on us, entitle 'Sexy Beasts - the Big, Beautiful, Burly Bruisers of PlanetBear.com'... if you notice, they forgot the 's' --- it should be PlanetBear'S' not PlanetBear. So we got an Oops for that in the latest issue, which is very cool of Beef to do so... it put a smile on my face because... in a way... we got featured all over again, in a small but cute and furry way.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Following their 6th Prime Cuts edition (article), BEEF magazine (website - profile) has published their 38th issue for August and September (cover).

In it you will find your usual slew of good looking Bears, a variety of adult fiction as well as a few comics. You can pick up a copy at your local adult store and you can also subscribe online via their site.

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Thursday, August 7, 2008

The following was sent in by BEEF Mag: "100% BEEF Magazine, the successor to the masculine-identified publishing legacy established by the now-defunct legendary 'BEAR' Magazine has released its Sixth Anniversary Collector's Edition: 'Prime Cuts 6: The Sixth Anniversary Collector's Edition' (cover). This annual edition of BEEF marks the completion of BEEF’s 6th year of publishing. Prime Cuts 6 is the sixth in a series of annual collector’s editions which began with the publication of BEEF: Prime Cuts #1 in 2003. BEEF Magazine was launched in May, 2002 by a group of friends after their swift departure from the hugely popular, but poorly managed and now-defunct BEAR Magazine. Excited to continue the publishing legacy established by BEAR Magazine, but also eager to broaden the definitions and masculine sexual identities which BEAR Magazine helped to popularize, co-publishers Scott McGillivray and Larry Woolwine forged a publishing alliance titled after the homoerotic term 'beefcake'. From its first issue, BEEF broke new erotic ground by injecting art, humor and satire into the masculine erotic mix, and by choosing to feature models and materials that, many argued at the time, staunchly challenged some of the rigid parameters which had come to define their publishing predecessor's pages.

'After we left, BEAR Magazine disappeared. But we wanted to continue the work, so we developed BEEF Magazine. We've carved out a unique niche for ourselves,' editor/designer and co-publisher Scott McGillivray notes, adding, 'Our goal is to deliver a mix in each bi-monthly edition of BEEF which is unique, diverse, and which maintains our masculine-identified editorial vision. BEEF celebrates the beauty and sexuality of masculine men of varying ages, races, sizes and shapes'". (continued...)

Read more here.

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

From Got Fur?: "We've been oh so busy. We've been building leather links and the leather calendar over at The Twisted Bear. We have been making nice to all of our Bear friends to get them to donate items for the Silent Auction at Lazy Bear. And, we are packing up to head to the rodeo to wrangle some cowboys - Sierra Stampede Rodeo.

We will be making our debut on LOGO during movie night at Lazy Bear... well sort of. We are featured in the documentary 'Bear Run' which debuts on LOGO on August 2nd. This feature is produced and directed by Dan Hunt - who previously produced the 'In The Life' (PBS) story on the Bear community.

And for the record - you are a very naughty dirty Bear! In the last issue of Chewin' the Fat we gave away copies of 'Prime Cut IV' (website - article) and you told us you want more free naked Bears. Check out this week’s give away on Chewin’ the Fat for more naked Bears.  Did I mention naked Bears?  LOL".

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Issue #37 of Beef Mag (website - cover) is out and available for you all. It's their June/July issue so it's a bit late however their editor Scott McGillivray (website - articles - profile) states in his 'editor's notes' that due to the production of 'Prime Cuts VI' (article) ~ their Anniversary Collector's edition ~ that it took them a bit longer to get out their summer issue.

No matter, it's out, and as usual they have their slew of good looking models... and if you flip the pages over to page 48 thru 54, you will see a feature on photos of Bearish men that I took ~ they called it the 'The Sexy Beasts of PlanetBears'.

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

The latest issue of BearParty Mag is out (website - articles - profile). It is their summer edition (from July to September). The following is from their current issue: "Don't pronounce the name of our Summer CoverBear like the tragic hero of the popular Shakespeare play. It's pronounced Ro-MAY-oh. But however you say it, Romeio's one hot Bear! In this issue you can see more pictures of him, along with stories about leather mentor and author Blade T. Bannon, and the productive team behind Bear Omnimedia (website - articles). We've also got the final chapter of Ken Slater's popular guide to hooking up online, a new episode of the Frankie & Roque comic strip, a history of the 'red rum' Shanghai Cocktail, and all the rest of our usual features.

It's the 'Summer of Love' all over again in California. Bears and other same-sex couples are enjoying the newly recognized right to marry, bringing California into sync with much of the rest of the civilized world in its support for gay marriage. Among the hundreds of Bears enjoying this new reality is the editor of the popular Bear-oriented adult magazine 100 Percent Beef ( website  - articles - profile), Scott McGillivray (website - articles), whom we profiled in the last issue of BearParty Magazine. On June 17th '08, Scott was married to Gregory Bessmer, his partner since 1996, in Riverside, CA. Wouldn't it be exciting to publish a social registry, to commemorate the furry nuptials being celebrated by Bears all over the world? Let’s all join together to wish the newlyweds a lifetime of happiness together. Woof!".

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Once a year, Beef (website - articles - profile) magazine comes out with its 'best of...' in their Prime Cuts mag. This is their 6th edition.

From Beef: "100% Beef Prime Cuts VI (cover) is hot off the press and celebrates some of the best in our 6th year of publishing Beef. Featuring more of your favorite hunks from the past year plus a look at some of the amazing artwork and overall masculine, erotic editorial spark for which our mag has become famous. This edition of Prime Cuts will stand proudly next to our 5 previous Anniversary Collector's Editions, Prime Cuts 1 through 5! To order Prime Cuts VI or any our earlier 100% BEEF Prime Cuts, please call us at (800) 672-3287 or order online".

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The following is from BearParty Magazine: "Some 25,000 copies of the latest issue of BearParty Magazine should be hitting local Bear bars and events around the world starting this weekend. You can also read it online for free with a free membership at BearParty.com.

Just in case you haven't seen it yet, BearParty Magazine is a convenient, digest-sized, bi-monthly print publication distributed for free at hundreds of bear bars, clubs, and events across the United States and around the world. Each glossy, full-color issue includes Bear comics, Bear galleries, features on Bear-friendly events, celebrities, trends, products, and news.

In case you were wondering about that sexy daddy on the cover, we met Matty at the Mr. San Francisco Leather contest this year, where he passed on his 2007 title as Mr. San Francisco Leather Daddy. You can see some pictures from that event in this issue as well. We're also featuring part three of Ken Slater’s tips on hooking up online, an illustrated interview with fine erotic artist Minoru Terada, and a discussion about the history and the future of Bear porn in print with Scott McGillivray of 100 Percent Beef. Or if you just want to relax, why not order a Zombie from the Open Bar, and read the new episode of Frankie & Roque? Woof!".

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The latest issue of Beef Mag (website - front cover - TubeBear profile) is now out and available for all you guys to grab. It's issue #36 and inside you'll find pictures of Jake Dakota, Matt, Drew and Adrian. As always there's some fiction and their regular columns such as the 'Kitchen Sink', 'Beef Tips' and pics from their road trips. There's also the 'BeerCan and Saurus' cartoon drawn by the infamous Brutus and a new comic called 'Saving Ryan' by Rolando Merida. You can order your subscription via their website.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
The newest Beef Mag (cover - TubeBear profile) has been shipped last week. This is Issue #36 (April/May). You can pick up your own copy via their website by subscribing to their mag. I've been getting my subscription by them since the beginning it's always a lot of fun when I go to my PO box and find the latest Beef Mag. You can also pick up their mag at a local adult store. Wanna know who's one of the cute guys who works at Beef? Check out Scott McGillivray's website - Rustyspot Design (articles).

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Beef Mag (larger image) is still one of the hottest Bear porn magazines which is available either online by subscribing and receiving it in your snail mailbox, or by hitting your local adult entertainment supplier and grabbing a copy off their rack. Their newest issue #38 is about to be printed out soon for April/May and I'm sure it will be a great issue as they all are.

Want to know who is behind the scenes for Beef Mag? Head on over to editor Scott McGillivray's website - Rustyspot Design. You can also check out his TubeBear profile. Also check out the articles we wrote about Beef Mag in the past.

If you have a magazine you would like have mentioned on PlanetBears and TubeBear, then by all means email us or use the send news form and we will be glad to spread the good word. 

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Friday, March 7, 2008

I went to my little PO box this morning while walking the pups and guess what I found... the latest issue of 100 Percent Beef (website - TubeBear profile - front cover), the adult magazine for... adults, and the only 'Bearish' magazine out there as of now.

There's 4 models to gawk over - Smoky, Big Ed, Steve and Big Russian Bear. There's some kinky stories, a few comics, a couple of articles and other fun stuff... all in all another great issue from Beef Mag - and this is #35. Now did you go to your PO box today and did not find your own issue? Simple, head on over to their site and subscribe.

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Friday, February 15, 2008

His name is Scott McGillivray and many of you might know him as the editor of Beef Magazine (website). He was also editor of Bear Magazine way back. He now has his very own website called RustySpot Design. From his site: "I've been doing graphic design and desktop publishing work for over a decade now, and I still get a huge kick out of visualizing peoples' ideas. I frequently develop logos and identity graphics, print ads, magazine design, catalog and program design as well as product packaging, posters, signs, clothing and apparel graphics". Check out some of his logos and print ads he has done, so make sure to contact him if you have anything Bearish you'd like to see professionally handled when it comes to logo-ing.

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Friday, February 15, 2008

I remember way back over 5 years ago a now defunct Bear's Mailing List (of QueerNet) was all abuzzed about a certain San Francisco rag going belly up - this mag known as Bear. Some of the guys that were working for this mag decided to get together and wanted to create a new mag by compiling images of what they considered to be good looking men. They wanted to slightly move away from the 'Bear' tag (since the last mag didn't do so well) yet this mag was still all about husky hairy and mature looking men. Thus was born 100% Beef Mag (website ~ TubeBear profile). 5 years later and the magazine is still going strong, publishing their 35th issue (cover) which you can pick up from their website (via subscription) or at your local XxX store. And as of right now, Beef Mag is truly the only real 'Bear' magazine out there, ever since American Bear and American Grizzly went belly up as well a couple of years back (AmaBear - all gone now).

ps - 5 years later and Bear mag 'still' has their website up - Brush Creek Media - and they are 'still' selling stuff like hats and magazines, however there is no store that exists, meaning if you send your money to that site, it's like donating it to some fundamentalist religion... meaning... you're just donating your money to thin air. Instead, go to Beef Mag's site and get yourself a copy of a real subscription.

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
I have mentioned this site a couple of times here in the news (here and here) and it's worth mentioning again - the site is called BearPictureArt and it's run by an excellent photographer out in Germany by the name of Mark. His work has shown up in both the European Bear Mag as well as 100% Beef. The models he chooses are truly some incredibly looking Bearish men, and if you're interested in being photographed by him, all you have to do is contact him.

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Friday, December 28, 2007
Right now you can pick up issue #34 (cover), the most recent issue of Beef Mag (TubeBear profile). The magazine is now 5 years old and has proven to offer high quality images of some great looking Bearish men. You'll also find some fine comic strips, editorials as well as steamy stories. You can also order online from their site, including other goods such as tshirts, caps, beer mug holders as well as their latest edition of 'Prime Cuts'.