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Diego poses for TeTu Magazine
October 2001
During my trip to Europe in October of 2001, I was asked to pose for TeTu, the leading gay and lesbian magazine in France. Shy as I am, I struggled with the idea (for about 2 seconds) and then I said yes. TeTu was getting ready to write an article on the growing bear culture, which they explained to me was a new movement in France (I was familiar with it since we had bears in the US for quite a while now). I been a bear all my life, so this was not only fun but very flattering to me. I thought they were just going to pull a Polaroid and snap a couple shots, however they gave a business card and told me to show up the following day at the studio of the photographer.
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The photographer was an adorable bear from Italy by the name of Cosimo Mirco. He only spoke Italian and French, I only spoke English and Spanish. After a few failed attemps at communication, I finally started trying my luck in speaking Italian and the two of us bonded. I wish he would have taken pictures of everything we were doing when we were not taking pictures, nonetheless, my afternoon with Mirco in his little studio in a small street in Paris will forever be burned in my mind and in my skin.
Viva La France!
