If you have been following QUEERGURU closely recently, you will know that this is PTown’s annual Bear Week. It’s one of the largest, busiest theme weeks in Provincetown, attracting tens of thousands of men and hosting dozens of parties and shows. It is also one of the friendliest crowds to invade the town that even people like me with clean-shaven faces are made to feel very welcome.

We thought it a perfect time to share with you self-claimed bear American Idol’s David Hernandez new summer anthem ILY that he recently released 

Co-written with Stewart Taylor and produced by Alex Teamer and Push Kahlon, the powerful message of “ILY.” is one of inclusion and how it is vital that we love one another for who and what we are. “‘ILY.’ is not pronoun specific and that was intentional,” Hernandez points out.

The “ILY.” video, shot by Arno Diem, depicts two people in a relationship that are struggling with each other’s shortcomings and insecurities. They visit a therapist, played by trans actress, Alexa Abraxas, and discover that through the heartache, they share a common thread of love for one another and that for many, it’s the obstacles we overcome that make a relationship stronger.

Hernandez’s success on American Idol was sadly cut short when word got out that had he had once worked as a stripper at a gay club in Phoenix, Arizona.  So much for thinking any program on the FOX Network wasn’t extremely homophobic 

 

We really don’t know if singer/songwriter RUFUS WAINWRIGHT identifies as a bear BUT we do know both his look and his fab music appeals to the Bear Community,  Now he has just teamed up with Fred Falke & Zen Freeman who make up Ampersounds to make this brand new EP “Technopera / Do It To the Music / Solitude Of Heart”