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• CAN HORS BE GAY? UNRAVELG THE MYSTERI OF EQUE BEHAVR
• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
• THIS STORY ABOUT GAY HORS IS HONTLY HEARTBREAKG
• CAN HORS BE GAY?
• WHAT DO A GAY HORSE EAT?
• HORSE VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?HORSE | GAY |IN OBSOLETE TERMS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HORSE AND GAYIS THAT HORSE IS TO GET ON HORSEBACK WHILE GAY IS AN ORNAMENT.AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HORSE AND GAYIS THAT HORSE IS OF, LIKE, OR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WH THE ANIMAL EQU FES BALL.GAY IS A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN.AS VERBS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HORSE AND GAYIS THAT HORSE IS TO OLIC, TO ACT MISCHIEVOLY. (USUALLY FOLLOWED BY "AROUND". WHILE GAY IS TO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL.AS A PROPER NOUN GAY IS{{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS AN ADJECTIVE GAY ISHAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.HORSE
• IS MY PET GAY?
• MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE

CAN HORS BE GAY? UNRAVELG THE MYSTERI OF EQUE BEHAVR

If not directly homosexual behavr, then a plete lack of tert mar for a sexually mature stud uld dite some form of homosexualy.

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

Observg homosexual behavr animals is fairly mon, and has been done wh hors, but this don’t necsarily scientifilly translate to ‘this horse is gay’. As an experienced horse breer, I n say that while hors n exhib behavrs that remble homosexualy, is sential to unrstand that their actns are more plex than simply beg “gay” or “straight. Domance and submissn are cril ponents of this may display homosexual behavrs to assert domance or subm to a higher-rankg BehavrYoung hors, particularly lts, may engage play behavr that appears homosexual, such as mountg, nuzzlg, and groomg each play helps them practice and velop their social and physil skills.

Hormonal InfluencHormonal imbalanc n sometim e hors to exhib atypil sexual behavrs, cludg mountg or urtg members of the same such behavrs may appear homosexual, they are likely bee of an unrlyg hormonal issue that n often be addrsed wh veterary Role of ReproductnDpe displayg homosexual behavrs, hors have a blogil imperative to reproduce:In the wild, a stalln will mate wh multiple mar to ensure the ntuatn of his geic le.

THIS STORY ABOUT GAY HORS IS HONTLY HEARTBREAKG

While humans have plex social, emotnal, and psychologil factors that ntribute to our sexual orientatn, hors’ motivatns are typilly based on reproductive succs, social dynamics, and ThoughtsIn ncln, while hors n display behavrs that remble homosexualy, the actns are more about social bondg, domance, play, and hormonal fluenc than a te sexual orientatn. Wh most speci, homosexual sex has been documented only sporadilly, and there appear to be few s of dividual animals who engage exclively.

” But the journal that published the paper, Blogy Letters, sent out a prs release a few days after the California Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. ” A gay rights advote e-mailed Young, askg her to fly a rabow flag above each female-female nt, to intify them and show solidary.

In 1999, Bagemihl published “Blogil Exuberance, ” a book that pulled together a lossal amount of prev piecemeal rearch and showed how blogists’ bias had margalized animal homosexualy for the last 150 years — sometim nocently enough, sometim an eptn of anthropomorphic disgt. Given this big umbrella of theory, the very existence of homosexual behavr animals n feel a ltle like imperable nonsense, somethg a rearcher uld spend years bangg his or her head agast the wall liberatg.

CAN HORS BE GAY?

The difficulty of that challenge, more than any implic or explic homophobia, may be why past blogists skirted the THE LAST DECADE, however, Pl Vasey and others have begun velopg new hypoth based on actual, prolonged observatn of different animals, cipherg the ways given homosexual behavrs may have evolved and the evolutnary role they might play wh the ntext of dividual speci. So far, the only real ncln this relatively small body of lerature seems to pot to, llectively, is a kd of flatg, meta-ncln: a sgle explanatn of homosexual behavr animals may not be possible, bee thkg of “homosexual behavr animals” as a sgle scientific subject might not make much sense.

WHAT DO A GAY HORSE EAT?

But we’re quick to nceive of that great range of activi the way most handily tracks to our anthropomorphic pot of view: put crassly, all those different animals jt seem to be dog gay sex stuff wh one another. ”Somethg siar may be happeng wh what we perceive to be homosexual sex an array of animal speci: we may be groupg together a big grab bag of behavrs based on only a superficial siary.

The Stanford blogist Joan Roughgarn told me to thk of all the animals as “multaskg” wh their private ’s also possible that some homosexual behavrs don’t provi a nventnal evolutnary advantage; but neher do they upend everythg we know about blogy. As Z put , “There’s a lot of slop the system — which, ” she was sure to add, “is not the same as sayg homosexualy is a mistake. Young’s hband, a blogil nsultant, was actually an thor of the paper, along wh Brenda Zn (who is also not gay, for what ’s worth).

Young found the assumptn offensive — not bee she was beg mistaken for gay, but bee she was beg mistaken for a bad scientist; the people seemed to prume that her rearch was promised by a personal agenda.

HORSE VS GAY - WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?HORSE | GAY |IN OBSOLETE TERMS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HORSE AND GAYIS THAT HORSE IS TO GET ON HORSEBACK WHILE GAY IS AN ORNAMENT.AS NOUNS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HORSE AND GAYIS THAT HORSE IS OF, LIKE, OR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WH THE ANIMAL EQU FES BALL.GAY IS A HOMOSEXUAL, PECIALLY A MALE HOMOSEXUAL; SEE ALSO LBIAN.AS VERBS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HORSE AND GAYIS THAT HORSE IS TO OLIC, TO ACT MISCHIEVOLY. (USUALLY FOLLOWED BY "AROUND". WHILE GAY IS TO MAKE HAPPY OR CHEERFUL.AS A PROPER NOUN GAY IS{{SURNAME|A=AN|ENGLISH|OM=NICKNAM}}, ORIGALLY A NICKNAME FOR A CHEERFUL OR LIVELY PERSON.AS AN ADJECTIVE GAY ISHAPPY, JOYFUL, AND LIVELY.HORSE

Several people I spoke to told me their own sexual inti eher helped spur or mata their tert the topic; Bce Bagemihl argued that gay and lbian people are “often better equipped to tect heterosexist bias when vtigatg the subject simply bee we enunter so equently our everyday liv. ” He is gay, he add, but that fact didn’t seem to tract om his RETROSPECT, the big, sloshg stew of anthropomorphic analys that Young’s paper provoked the culture uldn’t have been ls surprisg.

For whatever reason, we’re prone to seeg animals — pecially animals that appear to be gay — as reflectns, mols and foils of ourselv; we’re extraordarily, and sometim irratnally, vted a few months before I vised Kaena Pot, two pengus at the San Francis Zoo beme the latt a tradn of ptive same-sex pengu upl makg global headl. And while he strsed that there is no scientific way of termg if animals are “gay, ” bee the word nnot a sexual orientatn, not jt a behavr, he also noted that, beg the San Francis Zoo, “there’s fely a lot of opn here, ternally, that we give and ll the pengus gay. ” Acrdg to the Amerin Library Associatn, there have been more requts for librari to ban “And Tango Mak Three” every year than any other book the untry, three years animals do — what’s perceived to be “natural” — seems to rry a strange moral potency: ’s out there, irrefutably, as eher a validatn or a nunciatn of our own behavr, pendg on how you happen to feel about homosexualy and about nature.

IS MY PET GAY?

Durg the Victorian era, observatns of same-sex behavr swans and sects were held up as evince agast the moraly of homosexualy humans, sce at the dawn of dtrialism and Darwism, people were vted seeg themselv as more civilized than the “lower animals. ” Robert Mugabe and the Nazis have employed the same reasong, as did the 1970s anti-gay csar Ana Bryant, who, Bce Bagemihl not, claimed an terview that “even barnyard animals don’t do what homosexuals do” and was unmoved when the terviewer poted out what actually happens barnyards.

MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE

Gert Glossip has ed Bagemihl’s book to create a celebratory, terpretive gay animal tour of the Alai zoo, marketed to gay and lbian tourists. The book has also been ced a brief filed for the 2003 Supreme Court se that overturned a Texas state ban on sodomy and, siarly, a legislative bate on the floor of the Brish Esseks, director of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Project at the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, told me he has never rporated facts about animal behavr to a legal argument about the rights of human begs. ”) That beg said, Esseks told me, polls show that Amerins are more likely to discrimate agast gays and lbians if they thk homosexualy is “a choice.

Those wantg to discrimate agast gays and lbians may have roped the rt of to an argument over what’s “natural” jt by assertg for so long that homosexualy is not.

Animal rearch monstratg the supposed “naturalns” of homosexualy has typilly been embraced by gay rights activists and has put their opponents on the fensive.