Many people ask themselv a simple qutn about one of the bt basketball players history: Is Larry Bird gay? The answer is no, he is not.
Contents:
- WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
- LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
- IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS
- CAN BIRDS BE GAY? DO BIRDS SHOW HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR?
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- GAY BIRD
- IS LARRY BIRD GAY? THAT’S A BIG NO
- CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
- IS TWEETY BIRD GAY?
WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
Insir is highlightg out and proud athlet who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and more honor of pri month. * a bird that is gay *
They're not alone: More than 130 bird speci are known to engage homosexual behavr at least ocsnally, a fact that has puzzled all, evolutnary terms same-sex matg seems to rce the birds' chanc of reproductive succs. In some speci the same-sex pairs even raise young (nceived wh outsi partners, obvly) and stay together for several 2007, a team led by Geoff MacFarlane, a blogist at the Universy of Newstle Atralia, reported that male homosexual behavr was more mon polygyno bird speci, where mal mate wh numero femal, and that female homosexual behavr was more mon monogamo speci. Srg sexTo fd out whether the theory might extend to homosexual behavr, MacFarlane and his team exhstively bed the lerature for acunts of same-sex urtship, mountg, or pair bondg.
LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
Beloved Bird is Gay Rights Hero, Victim of State Vlence * a bird that is gay *
The balance shifted to femal socially monogamo speci, where the sex spl the work more far, female homosexualy hasn't turned up the handful of birds where each female mat wh many mal, but MacFarlane's team predicts may. "Homosexual behavr is more likely to be mataed and not be selected agast than if you are a sex that r a lot for offsprg and only has one or few reproductive partners, " he wh plenty of reproductive prospects, a ltle homosexual behavr won't have much effect on long-term reproductive succs, MacFarlane said. "In some s, homosexual allianc may even be adaptive, helpg dividuals fend terrori, advance their social stat, or get help wh parental re.
" a 2006 exhibn at the Norwegian Natural History Mm of the Universy of Oslo that ed mols, photos, texts, and specimens (like the swans to the right) to rm visors about a small selectn of "gay" animals.
Bonobos, one of our clost relativ, may be the most well-known homosexual whal, bottlenose dolphs, Wt Indian manate, and giraff are known to have all-male i.
IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS
* a bird that is gay *
But rearchers have no ia what the advantage is, if any, of homosexual behavr among dragonfli, srab beetl, or, as observed at least once, two male octop of different speci. Zoologists are disverg that homosexual and bisexual activy is not unknown wh the animal and Silo, two male chstrap pengus at New York's Central Park Zoo have been separable for six years now. Filmmakers recently went search of homosexual wild animals as part of a Natnal Geographic Ultimate Explorer documentary about the female's role the matg game.
CAN BIRDS BE GAY? DO BIRDS SHOW HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR?
"Well, perhaps, a roundabout way, they are seekg mal, suggts primatologist Amy argu that female maqu may enhance their social posn through homosexual timacy which turn fluenc breedg succs. Already, s of animal homosexualy have been ced succsful urt s brought agast stat like Texas, where gay sex was, until recently, scientists say we should be wary of referrg to animals when nsirg what's acceptable human society. For stance, fantici, as practiced by lns and many other animals, isn't somethg people, gay or straight, generally approve of HomosexualySo how far n we go g animals to help unrstand human homosexualy?
"The bottom le is that anythg that happens other primat, and particularly other ap, is likely to have strong evolutnary ntuy wh what happens humans, " he says the bonobo's e of homosexual activy for social bondg is a possible example, addg, "One of the ma arguments for human homosexual behavr is that helps bond male groups together, particularly where a group of dividuals are pennt on each other, as they might be huntg or warfare.
However, as Dunbar adms, there's a long way to go before the of homosexualy humans are fully said, "Nobody's really vtigated this issue thoroughly, bee 's so polilly sensive.
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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. 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.
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. 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.
Acrdg to, a study nducted by wildlife elogists at the Universy of Florida Gaville found that elevated levels of mercury led to an crease homosexual behavr whe ibis.
GAY BIRD
Ever sce the rearch started on the sexualy of birds and documentatn on their behavr towards their partners, several speci of birds have been listed as homosexual, gay, or of other genr inti. Here is a list of birds that shows homosexual behavr-Amerin flamgoAtralian shelduckBank swallowBeard vultureBlack swanBlue-wged tealCalf birdChickenCliff swallowDky moorhenElegant parrotEuropean jayGentoo penguGrey heronHoe sparrowIvory gullLser flamgoMk duckOstrichPigeon(domtic)Pied kgfisherRavenSeagullSnow gooseWood duckZebra fch and many more.
If you have ever seen a bird engagg same-sex- sex or homosexual behavr, is not different or display homosexual behavr monly, pecially social birds. There is no proven way to fd out or know that a certa bird is gay except observg their relatnship, whether sex, parenthood, or matg wh other sex birds. Like humans, we nnot pletely unrstand why birds are homosexual, as genr is a plex phenomenon of nature whether birds that are gay are by choice or due to certa suatns.
IS LARRY BIRD GAY? THAT’S A BIG NO
Exposed to mercury poisong Studi and experiments suggt that birds wh creased mercury levels have more tenncy to show homosexual behavr. No, genr do not matter for gay birds while choosg a mate; unr many circumstanc and observance, is seen that birds have same-sex matg relatnships. We know that homosexual behavr among birds nnot lead to reproductn, but gay upl of birds n raise a young bird (of urse, reproduced by another partner of the oppose sex).
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
Unlike the se of humans, some birds are not born this way(homosexual) suatns and many factors play a role the choice of birds to engage same-sex relatns.
Insir is highlightg out and proud athlet honor of the annual celebratn of those who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and morn-day stars like USWNT pta Megan Rapoe and WNBA legend, Diana Trasi, are NBA player Jason Pl Colls, former NFL nng back David Kopay, and tennis in Billie Jean Kg were trailblazers their rpective sports. Longtime NFL offensive leman Ryan O'Callaghan me out as gay publicly 2017 via a story for Outsports and revealed that he had long planned to kill himself once his football reer was over. Jason Pl Colls spent 13 seasons the NBA and, after g out 2013, beme the first out gay athlete actively playg any of the four major North Amerin pro sports leagu.
Olympic skater Adam Rippon ma history as the first out gay man to jo Team USA for a wter Olympics and, Pyeongchang, he beme the first to w a medal at the Gam. In a tweet published at around 4:00 PM on October 21st, Same Workshop, the Amerin non-prof anizatn that produc Same Street among other tnal children’s media, announced that Big Bird is gay. Much like Alan Turg, he was chemilly strated due to England’s harsh, regrsive, homophobic polici surroundg same-sex relatnships and homosexualy the post-World War II era.
IS TWEETY BIRD GAY?
After beg ught ‘ the act’ so-to-speak by an unrver p 1964, Big Bird was nvicted of ‘cent homosexual activy’ and sentenced to five months prison, as well as chemil stratn. I know they are askg the qutn bee one of my other articl, about the only out, gay players nba history, gets a lot of clicks om people searchg for this very qutn.
I thk that is bee addn to wrg a post about openly gay players, I have wrten more than a dozen articl about Larry Bird and his reer wh the Boston Celtics. Between my rearch for my article on gay NBA players and my extensive knowledge of Larry Bird and his reer, I know the answer to the qutn: Is Larry Bird gay? Durg his high school years he shot up om a 6’1” sophomore who was a good basketball player to a 6′ 7” senr who averaged more than 30 pots and 20 rebounds per game for his high school team.
Metal may fluence sexual velopment whe ibis, expert birds that eat mercury-ntamated food show "surprisg" homosexual behavr, scientists have a recent experiment ptive whe ibis, many of the mal exposed to the metal chose other mal as "male-male pairs did everythg that a heterosexual pair would do, " said study lear Peter Frerick, a wildlife elogist at the Universy of Florida Gaville. A fourth ntrol group ate mercury-ee the birds had reached sexual matury at around a year old, homosexual bondg creased all three groups exposed to mercury. Mercury Mysteri RemaMany unknowns rema about the study and mercury's effects, Frerick team did not have fundg, for example, to exame whether takg mercury out of the birds' diets would stop the homosexual "my spicn is none of the effects we saw are likely to be permanent, " Frerick said.