"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.
Contents:
- ‘GAY ELEPHANT’ IS JT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
- 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
- POLISH GAY DRAMA ‘ELEPHANT’ SELLS TO NORTH AMERI AND KEY EUROPEAN TERRORI (EXCLIVE)
- HANNIBAL & THE GAY ELEPHANT THE ROOM
- POLISH POLICIAN FUM OVER "GAY" ELEPHANT ZOO
‘GAY ELEPHANT’ IS JT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
* elephant homosexuality *
“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 .
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.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
Photo: Julia Zavalisha (Shutterstock)There are still people out there who thk that beg gay is “unnatural, ” but they uldn’t be more wrong.
It’s been observed more than 1, 500 animal speci, om sects and other vertebrat, right up the evolutnary ladr to primat and the most part, we’re not sure why—what evolutnary advantage do homosexual uplg provi to dolphs (other than happier dolphs)? What’s really unnatural is that so many people still assume animals adhere to the “moral” of a small number of humans—so if you happen to n to anyone like that, pot them to this list of the 11 most gay animals on Sergey Uryadnikov (Shutterstock)Bonobos, a speci of great ap native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are the hippi of the animal kgdom.
They share about 99% of their DNA wh humans, and they’re gay as hell. Homosexual sex has been observed a number of dolph speci, but has been studied most thoroughly bottlenose dolphs. Photo: JMx Imag (Shutterstock)Giraffe sex is more gay than straight.
POLISH GAY DRAMA ‘ELEPHANT’ SELLS TO NORTH AMERI AND KEY EUROPEAN TERRORI (EXCLIVE)
In parison, female giraff only get by wh other femal about 1% of the Jaroslav Seker (Shutterstock)Both male and female lns have been observed exhibg homosexual behavr. The olst evince of a (maybe) gay man dat back to 2900 to 2500 years ago.
Sce funerary practic were so important to the ancient people, probably wasn’t an accint, and scientists speculate that uld have been bee he was gay or trans. ” Garter snak, gopher snak, and rattlnak all exhib “queer” behavr of var typ, but the gayt of all are flower pot snak, all of whom are female. 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.
HANNIBAL & THE GAY ELEPHANT THE ROOM
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?
POLISH POLICIAN FUM OVER "GAY" ELEPHANT ZOO
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. As pictns of homosexualy have bee progrsively ls prohibed televisn and movi, portrayg timate emotnal relatnships that don't volve sex seems to have bee even more plited. Aled Hchck's 1951 film Strangers on a Tra featur a relatnship between two male characters that is parable to that between Will and Hannibal, and is wily regard as havg strong homoerotic subtext.
Yet Strangers on a Tra was ma an era where, thanks to the Hays Co, wasn't possible to have explicly gay characters Amerin films.