Queen of the Gays Kathy Griffin graces the cover of this month's A Bear's Life.
Sadly, former cover boy Andrew Sullivan couldn't make the shoot.
Husky movie maker Kevin Smith's about to become a pin-up! The director and writer, who brought us Clerks and Chasing Amy, will be appearing on a new issue of hairy men's man, A Bear's Life.
While some straight men would shy away from fag rag's, Smith seems excited. In a chat with David Letterman, Smith said:
Within that community there are bears - guys who look like me - and dudes who are really into them, who are called cubs. And, apparently, I'm the focus of a lot of admiration in this community. I'd be considered something of a coup, a score for a cub - the ultimate bear to get."And they called and said, 'Do you want to be on the cover of a magazine?' I was like, 'Are you telling me there's someone out there who sexualizes me? I'll be on that magazine, totally.'
Smith, we've been sexualizing you for years!
As we've documented this week, mainstream gay mags often aren't all things to all people. Nor should they be. Which is why, even if we're not huge consumers of DNA, Instinct, or Blue, we're glad to see them out there. But when we stumbled upon A Bear's Life, we knew we hit on something big: a mag aimed at a niche of an already narrow audience.
A Bear's Life is for, as you may have guessed, the bears and cubs out there tired of seeing their "masculine" lifestyles all but ignored in the pages of Genre and Out. What's more impressive, however, is the magazine's approach to its readers: They aren't cast as outsiders, but an "integral part of society."
We never thought we'd see the day when a burly, hairy man graced the cover of a magazine. Glad we can check that one of our list.
