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This project was created by Alex Fortes during his year as Mr. Bear Europe 2025, as an independent, non-commercial archive documenting bear titleholders and related events across Europe.
A lot of our community history fades away with platform changes, old site closures, and memories that start to falter. Names, dates, editions, and stories often survive only in fragments, scattered across old websites, social media posts, or personal collections, and are surprisingly hard to reconstruct later on.
This archive is an attempt to bring some of those fragments together and give them a place to exist side by side, in a structured and accessible way.
Information is gathered from publicly available sources and community contributions, and checked as much as possible, but it may still be incomplete or contain mistakes.
This website is an independent, non-commercial project created for informational and historical purposes. It documents Mister Bear titleholders and related events across European countries, using publicly available information.
The project aims to preserve and share culturally relevant historical information within the LGBTQ+ community.
The content presented on this website may include names, countries, years of titles, links to social media profiles, and, in some cases, photographs related to public events.
All information is collected from publicly accessible sources, such as official event communications, press coverage, public posts on social media platforms, community archives, and direct submissions.
This website is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially representing any organisation, competition, or event unless explicitly stated.
Profile photographs and other images displayed on this website originate from public sources, or are sent to us by visitors. Public sources may include images shared publicly by the individuals themselves, by event organisers, or by other publicly accessible accounts.
Images and documents included in the gallery section generally include source attribution whenever known. In rare cases where attribution is missing or unclear, this is unintentional.
All image rights remain with their respective photographers or rights holders.
This website processes personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The processing of personal data is based on legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR), for the purpose of historical documentation, cultural preservation, and informational display.
Personal data processed may include:
While care is taken to ensure accuracy, the information presented may be incomplete, outdated, or contain errors. This project is continuously evolving.
If you hold or have held a title listed here, you can manage much of your entry yourself. Contact us to claim your titleholder profile, and you can then edit or hide your public name, place of origin, photo and social links, and hide your name from any photo you are tagged in. Changes reach the database immediately; the public map catches up overnight.
Where a titleholder cannot do this themselves, the same access can be given to someone acting for them, such as a relative or the organisation that awarded the title. Changes made this way are recorded.
This is an archive of titles and the years they were awarded. That core record, which title, which year, and who held it, is kept permanently. Removing it would leave a false account of who held a title and when, which is the opposite of what this project is for.
Everything else attached to a person is optional and can be removed at any time, by you or at your request: photo, place of origin, social links, notes, and photo tags.
If you are the subject of any data displayed on this website, you have the right to request access to your data, rectification, restriction of processing, objection, or erasure.
This website uses no analytics, no advertising trackers and no profiling of any kind, and nothing here follows you to other websites.
Browsing the map and the gallery sets no cookies at all. If you use one of the forms, a temporary cookie is set so that the form can work, and the anti-spam check below sets its own for the same reason. Both are strictly necessary for something you asked to do, and neither is used to identify or track you.
The contribution and report forms use Cloudflare Turnstile, a check that tells people apart from automated scripts. It runs on those two forms only. It is what lets us accept contributions from anyone without asking you to create an account, and it turns away automated junk before it reaches us. To perform the check, Cloudflare receives your IP address and basic technical information about your browser.
We ask for an email address so that we can come back to you if something you sent needs checking, and we send a short verification code to it first. It is stored encrypted, is never shown publicly, and is deleted automatically 60 days after we finish dealing with your message. We can also remove it sooner if you ask.
We do not store the network address you wrote from. To limit abuse we keep a one-way fingerprint of it, which cannot be turned back into an address, and that is discarded within days.
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European Bear Titles Archive.
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