Our next event is in “The Hole” at The Jackhammer on February 7th which is Super Bowl Sunday. Our 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM door leaves you plenty of time to enjoy the fun at BNC before the 5:30 PM kick-off and will be much more enjoyable than watching over 3 hours of pre-game hype. Our host, Jimmy, and his staff invite all BNC attendees to get dressed, come up stairs and enjoy the game and free food at The Jackhammer after BNC. Additionally, Touché will be hosting a Super Bowl Party as well, giving you a second great option for watching the game. Cum enjoy Super Bowl Sunday with BNC!!!

With the change of our Saturday evening Touché events to the third Saturday of each month, we have seen a steady growth in attendance. Additionally, Touché has added a sling which was very popular at the last event. If you have never been to one of our Touché events or just haven’t been in a while, plan on cumming to one soon.

Windy City Gay Naturists (WCGN) has invited all BNC members to attend their St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) Event at The Hideaway, 7301 W. Roosevelt Road in Forest Park starting at 7:30 PM. $20 admission includes 2 drink tickets. There will be “play” at this event. For more information email rvendegna@sbcglobal.net or call 708-828-4931.

Starting in 2010 BNC is raising the price of annual Membership to $20 for those members who wish to continue to receive the BNC newsletter via snail-mail. Members who receive the newsletter via email or are on the “Do Not Mail” list will continue to pay $15 per year. It costs BNC about $1 for every newsletter it mails (postage, paper, envelopes, toner/ink, etc.) and is extremely labor intensive. (Think of the work of printing, folding, stuffing and affixing postage to 300 pieces of mail six times a year.)

Signing up for the BNC Newsletter via email is easy. Email us at bncinfo@bearnaked.org with the email address you want to use and your first and last names. We’ll test it, update the database, and save us all some time and money.

As BNC is now using only Touché and The Jackhammer as event sites, we have decided to eliminate the use of envelopes during the check in process. You no longer need to have your admission fee in a sealed envelope.

Email bncinfo@bearnaked.org or call the HotLine at (312) 409-0269 three hours before an event to get information or directions.

Sunday, February 7th - BNC Bar Afternoon Play Party @ Jackhammer. Door 2:00-3:00pm, $10 for members, $15 for guests. Cash bar after your two drink tickets have been used.
Saturday, February 20th - Bar Night Play Party @ Touché, Door 6:00-7:00pm. $10 for members, $15 for guests. Entry includes 2 free Well Liquor or Domestic Beer drink tickets. Cash bar after your two drink tickets have been used or for Call Liquor and Imported Beer.
Wednesday, February 24th – Weeknight Bar Play Party @ Jackhammer, Door 7:30-8:30pm, $10 for members, $15 for guests. Cash bar after your two drink tickets have been used.
Sunday, March 7th - BNC Bar Afternoon Play Party @ Jackhammer. Door 2:00-3:00pm, $10 for members, $15 for guests. Cash bar after your two drink tickets have been used.
Saturday, March 20th - Bar Night Play Party @ Touché, Door 6:00-7:00pm. $10 for members, $15 for guests. Entry includes 2 free Well Liquor or Domestic Beer drink tickets. Cash bar after your two drink tickets have been used or for Call Liquor and Imported Beer.
Wednesday, March 24th – Weeknight Bar Play Party @ Jackhammer, Door 7:30-8:30pm, $10 for members, $15 for guests. Cash bar after your two drink tickets have been used.

Sunday, April 11th – Jackhammer, 2:00 PM
Saturday, April 17th – Touché, 6:00 PM
Wednesday, April 28th - Jackhammer, 7:30 PM
Sunday, May 2nd – Jackhammer, 2:00 PM
Saturday, May 15th – Touché, 6:00 PM
Wednesday, May 26th - Jackhammer, 7:30 PM
Sunday, June 6th – Jackhammer, 2:00 PM
Saturday, June 19th – Touché, 6:00 PM
Wednesday, June 23rd - Jackhammer, 7:30 PM

BNC is in need of volunteers. You can help by becumming a BNC volunteer! Our event volunteers get free entry to the event they work, and volunteers who volunteer on a regular basis or who help out behind the scenes to do the footwork that makes events happen get a healthy batch of “BearBuck$” that they can redeem to pay annual membership and/or to pay for entry to events. Without volunteers, BNC does not exist, and BNC events don’t happen. What are YOU doing to help BNC give you good times?

If you can help out either occasionally or on a regular basis, please call the BNC HotLine at 312-409-0269 or e-mail bncinfo@bearnaked.org with your name and contact info. YOU MUST BE A PAID BNC MEMBER TO BE A VOLUNTEER.

Touche is located at 6412 N. Clark, Jackhammer is at 6406 N. Clark, just a couple doors north of Devon at the Clark/Ashland split. If the parking lot across the street (at the meters!) is full, there’s plenty of parking on the surrounding streets. CTA’s 22 Clark buses stop at the corner, as does the 155 Devon bus connecting to the Red Line Morse station. And 36 Broadway buses and SOME 151 Sheridan buses end at the corner. If you’re cabbing, you will find LOTS of cabs dropping and picking up at Touche and neighboring bars. The back bar, past the restrooms, is our event location—and remember that if you are NOT on the RSVP list, we CANNOT let you in…you can call in to the HotLine to RSVP as late as 5pm the night of the event. There is no RSVP requirement at Jackhammer. In case you have to use the men’s room while you’re at the event, we have bathrobes to provide the required degree of modesty! Check your coat at the bar’s front door, and check your clothes just inside the back bar…helpful hint: SOCKS are great places to store your clothing check ticket, drink tickets, spare bucks for drinks, and your poppers, lube, and rubbers!

IF you are interested in naked camping, know of other play locations we can use, or have other ideas to keep BNC members entertained and new members coming in to join us, please let us know—contact us via the BNC website, leaving a message on the HotLine, or talking to the volunteers at check-in at any BNC event!

If you are on-line, visit our web site at http://www.bearnaked.org. org You can find the schedule, "frequently asked questions", membership registration forms for download, and a whole lot more-even an e-mail link to get information. Check it out and tell us what you think.

BNC strongly encourages attendees to be naked during our events, but that doesn’t exclude wearing your favorite boots, bar vest, or leather jacket. We expect that if you are gonna see all our attendees’ cocks and asses and chests that they get to see yours, too. Bashful Bettys don’t exactly feel like one of the lockerroom boys if they’re covering up the naughty bits. But maybe you have a dildo you like used on your butt. Or have restraints that need to be used. Or have some alligator clips for your nips. Or have other toys that make you hot. By all means, BRING THEM! Have fun! You should bring your own poppers, and sometimes it’s advantageous to bring your own lube and rubbers. Don’t be bashful to use the equipment at our venues. But please be respectful of other attendees. “NO” means “NO”, and if someone nicely pushes your hand or your mouth away, there are LOTS of other men available. And it isn’t nice to monopolize: let that hot man have the freedom to meat and greet the other men. Help the shy men get comfortable, too, OK?

As a member of BNC, you get a periodic free events, you get the newsletter to keep you updated, and you get special “non-party” events that non-members don’t get, all at substantial savings if you attend more than two events in one year. And you can save yourself the $10 event fees by volunteering at BNC events... call the HotLine AT LEAST one month in advance of an event if you wish to be a BNC volunteer! We’re accepting “trainees” for event check-in, so call the HotLine and volunteer to help out.

We keep a handful of flyers from other gay men’s naturist and play groups across the continent. Paw through them on the check-in table to see if there’s something going on at your destination—and make sure you tell them you’re a member of BearNaked/Chicago!

Camp BuckWOOD has scheduled the weekends of June 5-7, July 31-August 2, and August 28-30 for our “Bears NAKED in the Woods” camping. You can expect good crowds from across the lower Midwest and Kentucky there, enjoying the pool, hot tub, lake, play barns, and woods—NAKED. If camping isn’t your thing, consider their guest house. Make your reservations. http://www.campbuckwood.com .

Camp BUCKWood is a men’s lodge and campground, with breakfast available, a pool, hot tub, and pond on the property located in the rolling wooded hills of south-central Indiana’s Brown County. The place is peaceful (no loud noise after 10PM, no loud dogs) and relaxing. The small town of Nashville with tourist-oriented shops and restaurants is close by, and the scenery and hiking trails of Brown County State Park is near Nashville. Lots of arts-and-crafts sorts of places go with the scenery, and the cities of Bloomington and Indianapolis aren’t far away. THIS IS NOT STEREOTYPICAL INDIANA CORNFIELDS…some of the most incredible natural areas and geological formations surround the area.
IF YOU CAMP, come prepared with your tent/camper, food, ice, drink, and gear to cook with—you CAN buy breakfasts when you check in for your stay, but the campground is not near an interstate highway, so off-site dining is more difficult to get to. If interest is there, BNC may check into doing a dinner or potluck on Saturday evening.


Nudity is only permitted in the immediate vicinity of the pool, the tent sites (Meadow area) adjacent to the pool, RV sites adjacent to the pool, the hot tub, and the shower house. Nudity is NOT permitted on the trails, in the WOODED tent area, or past the hot tub area. Sex is NOT permitted in the open. We ask that you respect the proprietors’ rules and not offend the neighbors! But if your tent is not available, the small pool-side Red Barn (which has a sling!) and an enclosed rain shelter provided by BNC WILL be available for play! You can swim in the pool or in the lake, but no lifeguards are on duty; RESPONSIBLE imbibing of alcohol is permitted; and the LODGE is SMOKE-FREE.


You must purchase a $10 annual membership from Camp BUCKWood. Tent rates are $20 per night, with $10 per night for each extra man. RV sites are $35 per night, with $10 per night for each extra man. Lodge rooms (including the bunkroom) vary, but include breakfast. Visit http://www.campbuckwood.com for more information, latest rates, and for directions—you can get door-to-door directions from your home via the website! (If you’re not on-line, please ask the campground for directions when you reserve.) And make sure you tell them you’re from BearNaked/Chicago!

We’re looking forward to our weekends with the men at Camp BUCKWood—let your buddies know, too, and we will do all we can to get our friends from Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville, and the Ohio Valley to join us there!

Make your reservations ASAP!