This year we are planning to getting involved in activities such as Out Fest, Equality Forum and Gay Pride along with our monthly socials. We are also planning other gatherings such as movie nights, city tours, and pool or bowling nights. Suggestions are welcome.

We are also open to teaming up with other LGBT groups for their events. If you would like to have us join you for one of your events please contact me, or any of our members, or come to one of our monthly meetings to let us know what your group is up to

Along with the fun we also plan to continue our efforts to help the LGBT community in need. Our charity outreach programs this year will include our annual coat drive that will run from the middle of November to the third week in December, The Liberty Bears Art Show as well as the highlight of the year, our annual “Bears on Liberty Weekend”.

To keep up with what is going on in the Philadelphia Bear community you can bookmark our website http://libertybears.net or join any of the fallowing groups:

On Yahoo: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertybears/
On Facebook: just search groups for “Liberty Bears” and look for our logo
On myspace: http://www.myspace.com/libertybears
Or subscribe to my free Podcast available as a free download on iTunes (Dragen Podcast) or at http://dragenpodcast.libsyn.com/

Up coming episodes will feature many of the long time members of the club including past and present officers as well as updates on coming events. We plan to do our best to keep the costs to our patrons at a minimum do to the lagging economy without giving up any of the fun we always enjoy. So come out and play with the bears. We always have a great time and we are sure you will too.

Gavin T. Schiffert
President of the Liberty Bears of Philadelphia