Can Birds Be Gay? Do Birds Show Homosexual Behavr?

Contents:

• IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS
• GAY BIRD
• WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
• CAN BIRDS BE GAY? DO BIRDS SHOW HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR?

IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS

Sopoulos-Lloyd’s experience is echoed by many people who intify as LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer), and who have lived much of their liv feelg “othered” by a society that centers people who are whe, straight, and cisgenr (their assigned sex at birth match their genr inty).

“Birdg trips wh straight men have been very difficult, ” says Chase Mennhall, a cisgenr gay man and curator of birds at the Carnegie Mm of Natural History.

GAY BIRD

In 1994, the Gay Birrs’ Club was found the UK, and a year later, a siar group, lled GAGGLE, was tablished Atlanta, Geia.

Around that time, Jennifer Rycenga, who’s now a profsor of relig studi at San Jose State Universy, was searchg for a gay-leang birdg group San Francis.

Today, some two s after the first gay-birdg groups formed, outdoor spac are signifintly more diverse, acceptg, and safe. “I’m black, gay, and non-Christian, ” says Chris Cooper, a board member for NYC Audubon. We might thk that homosexualy do not exist birds or parrots.

WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY

Sce a major drive the animal kgdom is to reproduce, and bee homosexualy do not serve this functn, we may assume that there is no place for same-sex relatnships. In fact, many speci of birds engage homosexual behavr.

There are some speci where homosexual activy occurs between eher of the sex. Don’t believe gay birds are possible? The evince of homosexual behavr birds and other animals has been ntroversial certa nservative quarters where a moral argument agast human homosexualy is prevalent.

Rearch bias related to the beliefs may be the reason that only sce the 1990s has homosexualy birds has been officially observed on a large sle.

CAN BIRDS BE GAY? DO BIRDS SHOW HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR?

The fact that many bird speci are not sexually dimorphic, meang both sex look intil, has also been a factor the abily to aquately study homosexualy wild birds. Explanatns of Bird Homosexualy. Arguments have been ma that homosexual behavr do not further the survival of the speci and therefore is unter-productive to s long-term viabily.

There have also been theori put forth that homosexual behavr ptive birds is due to the unnatural ndns which they live.