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Last Updated Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:02 PM

About Us

Minneapolis MovieBears... This web page is modeled very closely on the SFMovieBears.com. Thanks Dave!

Minneapolis Movie Bears Mission Vision and Values

Mission

The Minneapolis Movie Bears is a social organization catering to the Gay and Lesbian Community
We are a group of Bears, Cubs and their friends, located in Minneapolis/St Paul Metro Area that gather socially to provide fun, great conversation and a chance to relax, hang out, visit with friends, meet new friends, and expand your social network together.
Our mission is to accommodate the wants and needs of our members and the gay and lesbian community

Vision

The vision of the Minneapolis Movie Bears is to provide an organization that respects and supports the community at large. This includes fund raising for various GLBT friendly charities and other organizations throughout the metro area. Our members provide support where support is needed in our community.
The Minneapolis Movie Bears are committed to offering various events for our members that include movies, game nights, social gatherings, live entertainment as well as other events throughout the community.
Our members enthusiastically support and are dedicated to the Minneapolis Movie Bears’ mission.

Values

It is important to the Minneapolis Movie Bears to work jointly within and outside our community to promote acceptance of the GLBT culture as well as uphold diversity and encourage acceptance of all people. These values include:

Community Spirit	Leadership
Collaboration	Respect
Empowerment	Social Networking
Provide Value	Understanding

By promoting these guiding principles, the community as a whole benefits from a more open and accepting society.

But now you must be asking. "How do you all know what you're going to see and which theatre to meet up at?" the answer is simple. We have created an online forum for registered members. Located at phpbb3.minneapolismoviebears.com The Forums include areas in which we put together a poll on what movie to go see, which theatre to see it etc. There are also forums where we can post our own personal review of a movie we've seen. And a General Discussion area. If you would like to be a part of the Minneapolis Movie Bears. Simply click on the link to the Forums and then click Register and become a member. It's free and it's fun. Sometimes, a highly anticipated movie will be chosen by the coordinator, and a vote will not take place.

Our Movie Bear History

We, the six of us, Rick, Eric, JD, Brad, Garrett, and Dan, started the group July 2005. It was started with e-mails going back and forth. Some of the guys were getting tired of the e-mails. Sometimes 10 a day just going around. I decided to get on a Yahoo Group. This worked out great but after about 9 months, I wanted something more. I started looking around and found SFmoviebears. Dave, the webmaster, couldn't have been any more helpful in helping me get our site up and running. It's been fantastic. We have doubled our membership in two months. We are still looking for a logo, and I'm sure we'll find someone soon to help us with it. It's drama free and very straight forward. Very few rules. You look-explore, vote, and if your going to eat, you show up. I try to be as helpful as I can. That's the same with most of us. We're here to have fun.

The group is a lot of fun and most of us are so different. The one big thing we have in common is we like to see movies. Talk good about them, talk trash about them. It's all there.

April 2008

Well, here we are, we just hit 300 members. Who would have thought. We have now ventured out into live theater with Stomp in June, Wicked in November. We have started a game night every other Thursday. All has been very good events. Our Sunday afternoon movie at Innuendo once a month has been a hit. Our record, 65 for Short Bus. Our game night averages about 30. That is perfect for the size room we have. Keep on keepin on.

July 2007

Well, here we are. We just hit 100 members. We have a great website. And now we have an on line store with shirts, caps, mugs and so on. We had 22 for Transformers, we had 26 for Harry potter, and 42 for Hairspray.

As we keep growing, we keep looking for different theaters to go to. But, it's hard trying to find many that will do discounts for groups that make it worth going to that particular theater. In time.

GROUPS FEATURE

Forum Watch
Now you can watch for new topics on the Minneapolis Moviebears forums.
While logged into http://phpbb3.minneapolismoviebears.com. you can
go into a forum like "Movie Polls/Next Movie" and click the option
to watch the forum for new topics...

If you have any questions. Please feel free to email us at movies@minneapolismoviebears.com