Richard Rubin

Bear Week Provincetown will take place from July 13 through 20. Below we have the official full schedule of events and an interview with the president of the P-Town Bears, Frank Mahoney. Each year thousands of bears from around the world converge on the tiny queer oasis of Provincetown for one of the biggest and most acclaimed bear runs in existence.

With Lazy Bear Week just around the corner, taking place from July 29 through August 5, we thought it might be helpful to share this travel guide to Guerneville, California, where the event is held as published by our sister publication Vacationer.

Some of us are old enough to remember when we could rely on straightforward reportage of the day’s most important news by journalists of impeccable integrity. Names such as Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, David Halberstam, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley come to mind. They were the gold standard in telling us what we needed to know, mustering up exemplary objectivity without any hint of personal bias.