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: Research on gay bears in São Paulo suggests a deep link between meat consumption (especially beef) and the construction of an "ideal mannish" identity. For many in this subculture, "eating like a man" is a strategy to perform masculinity and avoid the stigma of being perceived as feminine. "Bears were more likely to be hairier, heavier,