Northern Exposure is coming soon! 

Take a walk into the wild woods of Brisbane and party the week away. If you’re lucky you might run into a lumberjack or ten 😛 

Events this year include our Meet & Greet Dinner, a Teddy Bears Picnic, BallsOUT Bingo Brisbears Edition, the Mr Bear QLD 2024 Competition, UnderBear 2XL and our Sunday Farewell! More event details will be added shortly. 

Further event details are yet to come, and tickets will be on sale soon!

Pre-Register Here

Please register for a ticket on this event page to gain early access to event releases. Brisbears members will also have priority access to event tickets.  

Save the dates and come join in the celebration! 

Pre-Registration gives you access to event releases ahead of the general public. Please ensure you register with a valid email address and add this email address to your address book or safe senders list: hello@brisbears.tidymail.co

 
 
Join us on 20 July at our monthly Brisbears den night for our annual Leather Bear party!
With Winter comes a late sunrise and an early sunset, the smell of the crisp fresh air in the morning and the smell of leather in the evening!
Brisbears Leather Bear returns for 2024 from 9pm on Saturday 20 July in the Bunker Bar of the Sportsman Hotel in Spring Hill with Brisbear favourite DJ Pup Kaiden. This is our night for the bears and their mates to dust of their leather and hit the dance floor.

Wear your favourite leather piece or pieces or any other gear!
No leather? No problem you can wear what you would normally wear to our den nights but once you wear leather you will always want to wear it!
 
We’ll also be drawing the winner for Ultimate Bear Giveaway at 10pm! Be sure to grab your tickets here: https://www.alphamaille.com.au/…/ultimate-bear-gear…/36
50% of funds raised for this raffle will go to support Mr Bear Queensland’s nominated charity QC.
 
Our regular raffles will be drawn at midnight as well as our Members Draw which has jackpotted to a whopping $1150! You have to be there on the night to claim this prize! Be sure to check your membership is current to be in the running here: https://brisbears.tidyhq.com/
 
Our cloak room will be manned by Brisbane Frontrunners.
 
This is a mens only event.

Join us for your favourite tradie party!
Pull out your Ruggers, dust off your hi-Vis and join us for a night of fun in the Bunker Bar. 
BoogieKnights will be keeping the tunes pumping all night long! 

Our raffles will take place at midnight as well as our members draw.

Our members draw has jackpotted to $1050.00! 

Be sure that your membership is current by checking on https://brisbears.tidyhq.com to be in the draw for this fabulous cash prize. 

We hope you can all join us!

Dress Code: Tradie gear 🙂 

This is a men’s only event.  

Original photography by the amazing @hdgimage has been modified for the event aesthetics.

See Dylan’s amazing work over at https://www.instagram.com/hdgimage/

Hello bears! We have access to the website again!

Please welcome the 2024 Committee:

President – Graeme Kerr
Vice President – Damien Wright
Treasurer – Chris Kennedy
Secretary – Samson Naylor
Committee Members:
Mitch Medcalf
Wesley Van Der Wolfe
Cruise Ensbey
Shane Thomas

Thank you to everybody who attended the AGM at the weekend. The mundane aspects of running the club are never as exciting as the actually events we put on, so it was great to see a good number of people there. The minutes of the meeting will be emailed out to financial members shortly.
 
So without further ado let me introduce you to your new committees.
 

G’day Brisbears!
 
Just a reminder about our upcoming Annual General Meeting:
21st November 2020 – The Sportsman Hotel (Downstairs Bunker Bar) – at 6pm (register at 6pm for a 6:15pm start).
Please note a slight update to the start time of the AGM now at 6pm.
 
RSVP notification invites have been sent out to current financial members. If you haven’t received the email, please check any spam or junk folders, or drop an email to me at: secretary@brisbears.org.au
 
Kind Regards,
Nicolai Bok
Brisbears Secretary

Dear Members,

Brisbears held its first den night in October 1993. We became an associated club on 29th September 1995, becoming Brisbears Social Club Incorporated (the club). At this point, the Brisbears constitution (The Club Rules) were voted on and came into effect.

The Club Rules fall under the Associations Incorporations Act 1981 (the Act) which sets out what we can and cannot do as a club. According to the Act, an Annual General Meeting (AGM) should be held within six months of the end of the financial year, which is before 30th June, following last year’s change to the financial year. An unwritten precedent has been that Brisbears held its AGM sooner and that it would be due about now.

Throughout the last few years, it has become apparent that there are several grey areas in our Club Rules that need to be addressed.

A version of Club Rules was adopted by the membership over 10 years ago. For some reason, it was incorrectly lodged with the office of fair trading and is not valid. We are therefore operating under the initial club rules set out 25 years ago. 

Over the last few months, I have been working to update our club rules and bring them into the 21st century. I was hoping to have them ready last month to be put to the club, discussed, amended if needed and voted on. It has turned out to be a bigger task than I was initially anticipating.

Updates are currently being reviewed by those with greater legal knowledge than I. Once I have them back and they are ready to go, our Secretary (Nicolai) will call a Special General Meeting (SGM) with the intent of discussing and adopting the Club Rules. Once club rules are accepted, within a few weeks, we will then hold our (AGM) based on the newly established club rules. 

We are doing this in two stages with an SGM first so that any amendments requested by the membership can be addressed before the AGM.

Updates will address

  • Confirmation of the Club’s objectives.
  • Membership eligibility criteria & process
  • Types of memberships, right and responsibilities
  • Membership Application / Renewal process in person and by technological means.
  • Life Member – eligibility, rights and responsibilities
  • Mr Bear Qld – eligibility, rights and responsibilities
  • Committee Members – eligibility, rights and responsibilities
  • Termination of membership / honorary title – Process and appeal.
  • Membership register.
  • Management committees and Sub-Committees
    • Powers & functions
    • Eligibility, elections, rights and responsibilities
    • Process
  • General Meeting / Special General meeting – Proxies

Upon adoption of the proposed club rules it is our intent that the club will have a greater foundation to move forward with the times; provide an inclusive social club for all gay men who identify as a bear and our admirers; and a structure that allows a greater number of members to take an active role in the running of the club, allowing for the diversification in the events we currently offer.

I look forward to presenting the updated Club Rules to you soon.

Regards

David Hill

President

I want to give back to my community
I want to make new friends
I want to get out of the house more
I want to be a bigger part of the community
I want to have a bigger voice
I want to win a trip to Melbourne
I want to wear a sash
I want to be a social butterfly
I want to get out of my comfort zone
I want to help those in need
I want to raise money for charity
I just want to have fun.
 
Mr Bear Qld means many things to different people. What would it mean to you?
 
If you haven’t registered your interest yet please email competition@brisbears.org.au for more information and an entry form

Come party with the bears after Pride this year.

Step back in time with DJ Galleon as he spins out the best of the 90s and 00s and some hidden extras in between

See you all on the dance floor.