Gay sheep? Let's get the facts straight | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

Contents:

• GOD'S OWN COUNTRY'S GAY SEX SCEN CENSORED ON AMAZON
• GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT
• HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY
• ‘GOD’S OWN COUNTRY’ DIRECTOR URG VIEWERS TO ‘NOT RENT OR BUY’ OM AMAZON PRIME AFTER GAY LOVE SCEN APPARENTLY CENSORED
• SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)
• YEP, THEY'RE GAY
• FARMER SUTRA! ARE GAY RAMS REALLY A PROBLEM THE SHEEP DTRY?
• GAY SHEEP, FORBIDN SCIENCE?
• OF GAY SHEEP, MORN SCIENCE AND THE PERILS OF BAD PUBLICY
• GAY SHEEP FACE NTRAL CENSORSHIP PLOT
• OF GAY SHEEP, MORN SCIENCE AND BAD PUBLICY
• PETA SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT ABOUT GAY SHEEP EXPERIMENTS
• GAY SHEEP
• GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT
• HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY

GOD'S OWN COUNTRY'S GAY SEX SCEN CENSORED ON AMAZON

The Advote has reached out to the distributor for 's now ls gay sex God's Own Country. 1590002796Viewers reported that at least two scen were cut om God's Own Country, whose pastoral gay romance has been pared to Brokeback Mounta, albe wh more explic scen.

Science told: hands off gay sheep. Apparently Profsor Charl Roselli is nductg gome experiments on sheep the name of eraditg homosexualy. "By varyg the hormone levels, " ntu, "maly by jectg hormon to the bra, they have had 'nsirable succs' alterg the rams' sexualy, wh some prevly gay animals beg attracted to ew.

GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT

The only siar work pleted and published by them was about tryg to make "straight" animals "gay" (they avoid those terms) and any se, that experiment was negative: failed to achieve this aim. " most bizarre is the suggtn that the rearch was somehow ultimately about makg gay people straight.

HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY

The assertn is at the top of the article: "Scientists are nductg experiments to change the sexualy of 'gay' sheep a programme that crics fear uld pave the way for breedg out homosexualy humans. Even if you uld tervene to make a gay human straight, you might reasonably expect this to make any hered tenncy towards homosexualy more prevalent, not all the misrmatn and misunrstandgs this ST piece appeared first a Peta (People for the Ethil Treatment of Animals) mpaign. A study of gay sheep appears to nfirm the ntroversial suggtn that there is a blogil basis for sexual preference.

‘GOD’S OWN COUNTRY’ DIRECTOR URG VIEWERS TO ‘NOT RENT OR BUY’ OM AMAZON PRIME AFTER GAY LOVE SCEN APPARENTLY CENSORED

But gay rams s size was almost intil to that “straight” femal. The differenc are almost intil to those intified by the nroscientist Simon LeVay his studi of the bras of gay men.

SAME-SEX KISS RTORED PIXAR’S ‘LIGHTYEAR’ FOLLOWG STAFF UPROAR OVER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL (EXCLUSIVE)

Sheep are particularly tertg, he says, bee bis humans, they are the only animal where the mal may naturally exprs exclively gay sexual preferenc. As many as one 10 rams n be gay.

But Lark suggts there may also be the fluence of gen at work, at least predisposg the animals to homosexualy. This is bee selective breedg seems to have been rponsible for the high proportn of gay sheep pared wh other animals. To boytt his 2017 award-wng but, “God’s Own Country, ” on Amazon Prime, after learng that some gay love scen appeared to have been censored by the streamg service.

YEP, THEY'RE GAY

On March 9, LGBTQ employe and alli at Pixar Animatn Studs sent a jot statement to Walt Disney Company learship claimg that Disney executiv had actively censored “overtly gay affectn” s feature films. The stunng allegatn — ma as part of a larger prott over the pany’s lack of public rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill — did not clu which Pixar films had weathered the censorship, nor which specific creative cisns were cut or altered. Followg the uproar surroundg the Pixar employe’ statement and Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s handlg of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, however, the kiss was restated to the movie last week.

The most overtly LGBTQ project Pixar’s non is a 2020 short film, “Out, ” about a gay man stgglg wh g out to his parents — which the stud released on Disney Pl as part of s SparkShorts program. “Nearly every moment of overtly gay affectn is cut at Disney’s beht, regardls of when there is prott om both the creative teams and executive learship at Pixar, ” the statement says.

FARMER SUTRA! ARE GAY RAMS REALLY A PROBLEM THE SHEEP DTRY?

Has a history of repeatedly sharg unfound nspiraci that man-ma chemils the environment uld be makg children gay or transgenr and g the femizatn of boys and masculizatn of girls. The basels claim that chemils – particularly tap water – uld turn people gay has gaed populary wh nspiracy theorists over the years, most memorably wh nservative rad host Alex Jon, who said chemils the water were “turng the igg’ ogs gay.

Zoologists have known for many years that homosexualy isn't unmon among animals. ) But I was surprised to learn recently that male sheep exhib homosexualy at least as often as humans: roughly 8% of rams turn out to have sex exclively wh other rams.

This ltle piece of fnal ephemera might otherwise have gone unnoticed outsi the rarely tersectg subcultur of gays and shepherds.

GAY SHEEP, FORBIDN SCIENCE?

Mpaign on behalf of gay sheep. “Unfortunately, he’ll have to go to the food cha, ” said Dewi Jon, the chief executive of the sheep-breedg pany Innovis, speakg on a Channel 4 documentary, My Gay Dog and Other Animals, which will be broadst on Thursday. The show reports that one 12 sheep is gay.

Campaigners raised money to send him to a sanctuary stead (although emerged the followg year that he may not be “gay” after all, “judgg by what he was tryg to do the other day wh one of the ws, ” said his new owner) preferenc sheep have been studied by Charl Roselli, a profsor of physlogy and pharmalogy at the Oregon Health & Science Universy, whose work suggts their sexualy is termed by blogy and has said that the rearch – prevly reported by the webse Slate unr the headle “Brokeback Mutton” – may “allow better selectn of rams for breedg and as a nsequence may be enomilly important to the sheep dtry”. Science told: hands off gay sheep: Scientists are nductg experiments to change the sexualy of "gay" sheep a programme that crics fear uld pave the way for breedg out homosexualy humans.

There is a pretty obv and straightforward way for homosexuals to lm down their fears that straight parents will geilly engeer out their orientatn (ergo, muny): breed gay babi. If scientists n unrstand homosexualy well enough to "cure" , then they uld certaly turn fet gay. Update: Jt to be clear, jt bee obligate homosexualy is likely of blogil orig do not necsarily mean that is geilly specified.

OF GAY SHEEP, MORN SCIENCE AND THE PERILS OF BAD PUBLICY

The evolutnary reasong is pretty simple, obligate homosexualy is a reproductive fns killer. There is a hypothis that "gay uncl" may enhance the fns of their siblgs, but while the efficient of relatedns between a parent and child is 1/2, that between uncle and niece or nephew is 1/4.

Another mol for the blogil orig of homosexualy is somethg like Toxoplasma gondii, a pathogenic fectn which has a behavorial impact. 1 - There is an ia that homosexualy is a byproduct of another geilly ntrolled tra which has been unr selectn. In other words homosexualy is a rrelated rponse a populatn due to pletropy at a loc.

Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture. ” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub.

GAY SHEEP FACE NTRAL CENSORSHIP PLOT

He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor. “Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead.

” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak. In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.

” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian.

OF GAY SHEEP, MORN SCIENCE AND BAD PUBLICY

” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.

Of gay sheep, morn science and the perils of bad publicy. And would be a shame to ignore the many (many) missiv we have recieved on the subject of the moral rightns/wrongns of 'curg' a ram of homosexualy:. Good article, but ignor the simple fact that the more homosexuals there are, the better for others to pass on their gen.

PETA SETS THE RERD STRAIGHT ABOUT GAY SHEEP EXPERIMENTS

For that reason, homophobia is stupid. Curg homosexual sheep might be OK om a farmer's perspective, but to cure a person means that people like myself would have a smaller pool of women to choose om.

The guys have the clearly monstrated the blogil (not choice, not geics) basis of sexual preference and have been hound by the right wg homophob for years bee they unrcut the ratnal for homophobia. Now the wack jobs at PETA, who re more about sheep than people, n Navrtalova to buyg to their bullsh and pronouncg the folks sheep rapg homophob!! Fair enough, bee a gay ram is basilly els to a farmer.

Th by the time a farmer disvers that his ram is homosexual has a market value of nil if isn't good breedg stock. Well that pends on the nature of ove homosexualy, don't ?

GAY SHEEP

If 's geic, artificially "straighteng" the ram will bypass natural selectn (which clearly favours the hetrosexual sheep), and the farmer is left wh an even gayer herd who will need artificial "straighteng" at st to him (and prof to the bmedil dtry).

If homosexualy is environmental then this isn't a problem, but the absence of any five answer to this qutn would any farmer want to risk valug his stock this way? To scribe the expirement as "homophobic" strik me as exceptnally short-sighted. The disvery of the physlogil mechanisms behd homosexualy would provi firm evince that is not a psychologil illns, as some would claim.

But here's the most ntroversial pot of all: this age of choice, what of the numero gay people today seekg a "cure"?

GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT

Includg a large number of gay and adult groups that uld not be seen to have anythg to do wh child pornography. Yet, when prsed on this censorship of adult and gay material Stephen French would not ment.

I swched ISPs at the time bee Nildram immediately dropped all the gay newsgroups mentned and when I asked why Adrian Mardl said was 'Easier to ply'.

I suppose gay ctomers uld jt go to hell then? 25, 2007 Charl Roselli set out to disver what mak some sheep gay.

HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY

But sce last fall, when People for the Ethil Treatment of Animals started a mpaign agast the rearch, has drawn a torrent of outrage om animal rights activists, gay advot and ordary cizens around the world — all of based, Dr. The story of the gay sheep beme a textbook example of the distortn and vuperatn that n rult when science meets the global news cycle.

The news media storm reached s zenh last month, when The Sunday Tim London published an article unr the headle “Science Told: Hands Off Gay Sheep. Roselli had worked succsfully to “cure” homosexual rams wh hormone treatments, and add that “crics fear” that the rearch “uld pave the way for breedg out homosexualy humans. ”Marta Navratilova, the tennis star who is both openly gay and a PETA ally, wrote an open letter that the rearch “n only be surmised as an attempt to velop a prenatal treatment” for sexual ntroversy spilled to the blog world, wh attacks on Dr.

Headl clud “Ewe Turn for Gay Rams on Hormon” and “He’s Jt Not That Into Ewe.