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Multiple bibliographic sources date the first The Bear Book to 1997. Google Books lists The Bear Book: Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture as published by Psychology Press in 1997, and Cornell’s guide to Les K. Wright’s papers also states that he edited THE BEAR BOOK (1997). So the article’s “(1999)” is incorrect.

Da'Shaun Harrison’s official bio and the publisher’s book page both give the title as Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness. The article replaces as with and, which is not the book’s actual title.

The article gives the founder’s name with the wrong middle initial. Les Wright’s own official website identifies him as Les K. Wright, and Cornell University’s finding aid for his papers likewise lists the creator as Wright, Les K. This makes the article’s "Les L. Wright" a factual naming error.

The “first lifestyle magazine” claim is contradicted by earlier bear periodicals. Cornell University’s guide to the Les K. Wright papers lists A Bear’s Life, Issue 1 (2005: Summer), showing a bear magazine existed years before Bear World’s 2012 launch. A separate library/catalog record identifies that magazine’s title as A Bear’s Life: celebrating the masculine lifestyle, which directly shows it was already framed as a lifestyle magazine for the bear community. That means Bear World was not the first such magazine.