Bear History Project International

Welcome to the official YouTube channel of the Bear History Project International. Our mission is to Capture, Define, and Preserve the history of the Bear Sub-Culture for present and future generations.


Les Wright founded the original Bear History Project in 1995. Les collected documentation of the emergent bear culture of the 1980s and early 1990s. The original materials have been permanently archived in the Human Sexuality Collection at Cornell University. (Future holdings will be at the Leather Archives & Museum.)