Meet Zoo Atlanta’s gay flamgos and their chick – Geia Voice – Gay & LGBT Atlanta News

Contents:

• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY? PENGUS, FLAMGOS AND WHAL THK SO
• GAY FLAMGO UPLE BREAK UP DURG PRI MONTH AND MAYBE LOVE ISN’T REAL AFTER ALL
• MEET ZOO ATLANTA’S GAY FLAMGOS AND THEIR CHICK
• GAY FLAMGOS BREAK UP DURG PRI MONTH AND MAYBE LOVE ISN’T REAL AFTER ALL

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY? PENGUS, FLAMGOS AND WHAL THK SO

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GAY FLAMGO UPLE BREAK UP DURG PRI MONTH AND MAYBE LOVE ISN’T REAL AFTER ALL

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MEET ZOO ATLANTA’S GAY FLAMGOS AND THEIR CHICK

Central Park zoo Manhattan had a famo pair of gay chstrap pengus named Roy and Silo, who were separable for more than six years.

An abandoned baby flamgo was taken unr the wg by a pair of two gay flamgos at the Whipsna Zoo Bedfordshire, egg was kept an cubator after was neglected by s blogil parents, and zookeepers sought foster parents before cid that male flamgos, Hudson and Blaze, were the bt sued for the job.

GAY FLAMGOS BREAK UP DURG PRI MONTH AND MAYBE LOVE ISN’T REAL AFTER ALL

Bird team lear, Tim Savage explaed how gay flamgos are not unual. Denver Zoo has nfirmed that gay flamgo uple Lance Bass and Freddie Mercury have broken up. Animal lovers are heartbroken after the Denver Zoo announced s inic gay flamgo uple has lled qus durg Pri Month.

And 20, 46 and other gay animals across the world like them are actually playg a role the larger nversatn about LGBT rights. Texas, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn and other groups filed a iend-of-the-urt brief that ced Canadian blogist Bce Bagemihl’s book “Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy. Bagemihl’s book was also ced 2000 by LGBT rights groups opposed to Ballot Measure 9, a proposed Oregon statute that prohibed teachg about homosexualy or bisexualy public schools.

animal lovers are heartbroken after the Denver Zoo announced s inic gay flamgo match has lled qus durg Pri Month.