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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Joe Mannetti, aka Joe Falconi (articles - photo - profile) who recently won the 'Mr. International Daddy Bear' title at IBR is asking for our assistance. He is promoting Life Group and his goal is to raise at least $400, yet Joe says "I would like to raise more for them since they do such outstanding work for the community. I am part of a team of title holders for the Saddle Up LA event". Life Group raises awareness and educates others about HIV/AIDS.

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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Is that Joe Mannetti aka Joe Falconi (articles - profile) sporting some bunny rabbit ears...? Why yes it is...! Actually, you can actually meet up with Joe as he will be attending the BearsLA's fundraising event Bears & Bunnies which will be taking place at the Pistons Bar in Long Beach, California on April 4th. They have some contests lined up such as 'Best Easter Bonnet' and 'Ms. & Mr. Easter Bear'.

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Friday, January 2, 2009

PlanetBears' favourite charity worker, Joe Mannetti (aka Joe Falconi)(articles - profile) is also a journalist and has been posting more and more articles in a variety of rags. His latest article is posted in Frontiers Mag which you can read here (the full edition is in PDF and can be seen here). The article is entitled 'Songs of Innocence and Experience: An overview of the trials of queer youth in today's world". Also, click here to enlarge that pic of Joe (taken by Chris Leinhart).

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Monday, December 8, 2008

The always attractive Joe Mannetti (aka Joe Falconi - photo with Santa - profile) has been continuously busy working within the Bear community as to raise awareness as well as money for charities. He's a truly husky hunky man that has a selfless way about life. Here's what he's been up to since winning several Bear contests (articles). From Joe:

"This is shaping up to be a very busy month! It's all good! I volunteered with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (website - articles) at a toy drive for Children with AIDS at Oil Can Harry's on Saturday (November 29th). We collected a sack full of toys for the children and raised nearly $400 by the end of the evening. Woo hoo!

On Monday (December 1st), I volunteered for Long Beach AIDS Foundation's World Aids Day event serving drinks and handing out snacks to all the attendees! What a great event! The young people there participated in an art display that was inspiring. I'll be helping out at two more toy drives for children, and I am honored to be able to be at all of them. Life is good! You always get back from giving, and I am meeting some of the best people in our community who are always willing to give to others".

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Joe (photo - articles - profile) is on fire. Some know him as Joe Mannetti, others as Joe Falconi... I think I'll just call him Joe since he's the only famous Joe Bear that I know of. After winning Mr Long Beach Pride Bear/Cub '08 and recently Mr. Los Angeles Bear '08, Joe took home this weekend the title of Mr. Southern California Bear '08. Triple wow...! As he says "IBR, here I come".

In other, sobering news, check out Joe's latest article entitled Can't we all get Along?. It's about Prop 8 (article) but not just about 'straight vs gay' but more 'what colour voted more for Prop 8', as in, the news keeps bringing up the issue that "Black support for 8 was larger than any other group, including Hispanics". Alas, Joe is super cute yet he does tackle some hard hitting issues as being a Bearish supporter, fund-raiser and an upcoming important voice in the GLBT community.