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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Editor of magazine Beef Mag (website) Scott McGillivray (website - profile) is letting us know that their 40th issue will soon be out for Dec / Jan. And good news, they have now switched to all color throughout the magazine. You see that thumbnail image of Roger (enlarge - galleries - profile)...? That's our ad that will be showing up in their mag. A huge thanks to Scott for designing it.

In other news - they are starting to making plans for their very first 100 BEEF weekend at the Canyon Club Resort in Palm Springs over Memorial Day Weekend 2009. There's not many details as of now but we'll keep you informed as we get more.

Lastly, Scott is wishing to inform all that BEEF is in no way associated with the 'new' BEAR magazine (website - profile). For those who don't know, Scott was the editor for BEAR but this was when the magazine was owned by Brush Creek Media. Recently, the group Bear Omnimedia (website) has acquired the rights to the 'BEAR' trademark, yet they are not affiliated in any way.

ps - here's the full sized image of that thumbnail pic of Roger.

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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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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, 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, October 19, 2007

All is fair in war and advertising, yet it seems the guys who run BearTrapping.com are in a league all of their own.

It started back around June of 2007 when they sent out their 1st advertising ploy which consisted of taking a couple of images of Bill and Andy of  BigMuscleBears.com while they were in drag. This is what they wrote (ad here): "Some Bear sites are run by girly guys who think it's okay to wear girly hats, or paint their toenails with girly paint or dress in girly clothes. Is that the sort of Bear site you want to belong to? Or are you looking for a real men? If real men are what you want, come to BearTrapping".

Scott McGillivray, the editor and co-owner of 100% Beef Magazine (TubeBear profile) wrote back an email telling them essentially that they are fighting a losing battle and "because a gay man is comfortable enough in his masculinity to 'camp it up' for a charitable cause (such as toenail painting at Lazy Bear Weekend, or wearing a pink fur vest at a San Francisco Pride Fundraiser) doesn't make him effeminate or 'girly'..."

Well, BearTrapping wrote back: "You just cannot fathom how incorrect you are. For every one of you fluffy fags that defend those two child endangering losers, we get 200 to join our REAL Bear site. Why? Because outside of GayLoserTown USA, (aka San Francisco), the rest of the gay world regrets you flaming queens even exist. Your bring the curve down for the rest of the community, and are the root cause of why we don't have equal rights".

Since then, BearTrapping has been getting mentioned in journals and blogs, and award winning Blog Joe.My.God pointed out in his June 20th article that BearTrapping is run by "Ironclad Media, which has been the subject of numerous consumer complaints including credit card fraud. Check out the complaints thread on Ripoff Report for details, it's all rather unbelievable".

Nevertheless, BearTrapping has continued their advertising attacks, their most recent one being "Are You a Bear or a Pansy" - saying that by joining their site you're a real man but joining the likes of BigMuscleBears and BearWWW, you are joining "out of date listing of stale profiles" (ad here).

Not sure where this is all headed yet I'm sure this is far from over. The beauty about the Bear culture has always been its high level of inclusivity; pretty much everyone can self-claim themselves as a Bear. Yet this openness seems to have also created holes within the system which has allowed everyone and their brother to come in and self-claim their Bear-hood while bashing all those who don't fit their image of what a Bear is.

The question is - can everyone be a Bear...?

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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Beef Mag is coming out with their 5th Anniversary Collector's Edition of Prime Cuts V. Editor Scott McGillivray states that "it's currently at the printer and should be on the streets in a couple of weeks. Publication of this issue effectively finishes our 5th Year of publishing 100% Beef, which is amazing and exciting and a little hard to believe". You can get a subscription to the magazine over at their website.