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Despite affectionate in-group monikers for big gay men—chubs, bears, cubs—the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture at large still haunts these individuals who often exist at the margins of gay communities. For over 20 years, we have served the community with a safe and fun place to connect, meet, and find love online.

To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture can be difficult. BiggerCity is the premier dating & community site for gay men of size and the men who love them. Its an important source for understanding the subjective experience of being fat, suffering as an interactive experience, and the reactive comportment to size discrimination in gay society.

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On Chasable you will find advanced search tools to help you discover guys in your area, who share your interests, who fit your type or have the same kinks as you. Girth & Mirth (G&M) is an organized network of social groups for a gay subculture based on positive attitudes towards larger bodies and fat fetishism.

Functional Functional. A compelling and rich narrative, Fat Gay Men provides a rare glimpse into an unexplored dimension of weight and body image in American culture. A compelling and rich narrative, Fat Gay Men provides a rare glimpse into an unexplored dimension of weight and body image in American culture.

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Recommend to Library. Analytics Analytics. Manage consent. Description Contents Authors Praise To be fat in a thin-obsessed gay culture can be difficult. Performance Performance. This book documents performances at club events and examines how participants use allusion and campy-queer behavior to reconfigure and reclaim their sullied body images, focusing on the numerous tensions of marginalization and dignity that big gay men experience and how they negotiate these tensions via their membership to a size-positive group.

It's a fun, multi-day event for the Chub/Chaser and Bear communities. First formed in San Francisco in , early chapters were established in Boston and New York.