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Contents:

• ‘GAY ELEPHANT’ IS JT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
• THE ONLY GAY THE ZOO: MEET N THE MALE ELEPHANT WH NO TERT LADI
• INSI THE ANIMAL MD WH GAY BRADSHAW
• POLISH GAY DRAMA ‘ELEPHANT’ SELLS TO NORTH AMERI AND KEY EUROPEAN TERRORI (EXCLIVE)
• SAME STREET INTRODUC FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTERS
• BETIFUL PHOTOS OF PAIGNTON ZOO'S ARLY MISSED ELEPHANTS DUCHS AND GAY
• POLISH POLICIAN FUM OVER "GAY" ELEPHANT ZOO
• 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL

‘GAY ELEPHANT’ IS JT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG

“We didn’t pay 37 ln zlotys for the largt elephant hoe Europe to have a gay elephant live there, ” said Michal Grz, a nservative uncillor the Polish cy of Poznan, Rters reported last Friday.

What Michal don’t know, apparently, is that homosexualy is rampant the animal kgdom. The five text on the subject, Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy, wrten by Canadian blogist and lguist Bce Bagemihl, is an obssive talog of a phenomenon so wispread that the n barely nta .

THE ONLY GAY THE ZOO: MEET N THE MALE ELEPHANT WH NO TERT LADI

For the Cliff’s Not versn, you have only to look to a 2006 article on the subject, which pots out that big horn sheep live “homosexual societi” which they “bond through genal lickg and anal terurse. A Polish zoo is unr fire - for havg a 'gay' elephant. However, their attempts to crease the size of zoo's elephant herd have n to difficulti after the revelatn that ten-year-old Ain Bh elephant, N, is homosexual.

INSI THE ANIMAL MD WH GAY BRADSHAW

Troublemaker: Councillors say N the elephant was meant to breed but appears to be gay as he prefers the pany of men to womenThe bull has had to change zoos three tim the past five years bee of his aggrsive behavur toward female attu towards his male unterparts however has been scribed as 'affectnate'.

POLISH GAY DRAMA ‘ELEPHANT’ SELLS TO NORTH AMERI AND KEY EUROPEAN TERRORI (EXCLIVE)

'We didn't pay 37 ln zlotys (£8 ln) for the largt elephant hoe Europe to have a gay elephant live there. The only gay the zoo: Meet N the male elephant wh no tert ladi. Usg mostly non-profsnal actors and featurg dizzyg long-tak to make you feel the passg of time leadg up to the horrific events at a high school Portland, the film is not immediately or easily talogued as an “LGBT” film, but mak for a fascatg entry to our long-nng project, given both s director and s oblique treatment of homosexualy.

SAME STREET INTRODUC FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTERS

Were the only scene the film ncerned wh homosexualy, we might be quick to ame this moment as an attempt to further “other” both shooters, potg to their burgeong (or reprsed? ) homosexualy as ditive of their other abnormal tennci. Isn’t this the allegoril ath-driven gay male figure society fears?

BETIFUL PHOTOS OF PAIGNTON ZOO'S ARLY MISSED ELEPHANTS DUCHS AND GAY

But, this is a Van Sant film, one which giv a lengthy scene at the school’s Gay Straight Alliance meetg, so such a facile ncln is hard to make. Seen as a 360-shot, wh s revolvg mera differently surveyg the var GSA members, the scene is ncerned wh the seemgly banal qutn: Can you tell if someone is gay jt by lookg at them?

His ank and unsentimental pictn of gay youth marks Elephant as an anomaly among the recent films we’ve looked at: there’s no heightened emotnal drama to ame the characters as Alan Ball’s Six Feet Unr, and no soc-cultural amework to help unrstand this muny as we had The Laramie Project. In this stands alone treatg s characters (gay or straight) wh the same different gaze; there li s transgrsive and rehg sensibily, bee boy is unlike anythg we've looked at on here.

POLISH POLICIAN FUM OVER "GAY" ELEPHANT ZOO

Gay Bradshaw. In 1996, Gay Bradshaw was on a team of scientists that went to South Ai to study lns. The vio opens wh a clip of then-ndidate Tmp pledgg to "do everythg my power to protect our LGBTQ cizens" a speech at the 2016 Republin Natnal Conventn, jt weeks after a gunman killed 49 people at a gay club Orlando.

What crics are sayg The Log Cab Republins, an anizatn that advot for LGBTQ nservativ, said a Twter thread that DeSantis' rhetoric had "ventured to homophobic terrory, " llg "divisive and sperate.

11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL

"I mean, the ad smacked of both homophobia and homoeroticism at the same time. Richard Grenell, Tmp's former actg director of natnal telligence — and the first openly gay Cabet member — lled the vio "unniably homophobic. " Christa Phaw, the rapid rponse director for DeSantis' mpaign, rpond a tweet that opposg the feral regnn of Pri Month is not homophobic.

Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg — the first openly gay Cabet member to be approved by the Senate — allud to DeSantis "tryg to prove his manhood, " and asked who he is aimg to help. DeSantis — who said while mpaigng for ernor 2018 that "gettg to bathroom wars, I don't thk that's a good e of our time" — has taken a more hardle stance recent years, signg a slew of bills that roll back protectns for gay and transgenr dividuals. Last March he signed a bill that crics have brand "Don't Say Gay, " which bans public school teachers om holdg classroom stctn about sexual orientatn or genr inty.

“Conservativ unrstand that we need to protect our kids, prerve women’s sports, safeguard women’s spac and strengthen parental rights, but Ron DeSantis’ extreme rhetoric has jt ventured to homophobic terrory, ” the group said a statement.