Can animals be gay? | Disver Wildlife

Contents:

• CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET
• ARE YOU AN OTTER, A DOLPH, OR A GAZELLE? GAY SLANG EXPLAED
• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
• GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
• 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
• AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP
• THE FABULO KGDOM OF GAY ANIMALS
• GAY ANIMALS
• GAY ANIMALS OUT OF THE CLOSET?

CHICKENS AND OTTERS AND BEARS, OH MY! SIX TYP OF GAY YOU SHOULD PROBABLY KNOW BEFORE YOU TWEET

As many members of the LGBTQ+ muny will know, an "otter" is a word ed to scribe a th and hairy gay man.

And if you're still nfed, here's your mi gay glossary so that you may never make Jam Mart's mistake:. Twk - Like a chicken, he is a gay man who is generally small and youthful, wh ltle facial or body hair.

ARE YOU AN OTTER, A DOLPH, OR A GAZELLE? GAY SLANG EXPLAED

Chicken - A young or young-lookg gay man (or sometim an unrage boy) who is often pretty the face and sexually naive. However, scientific quiry to such behavrs didn’t happen until relatively recently due to historilly pervasive, negative attus towards homosexualy humans.

New work by evolutnary blogists suggts that perhaps, bld by historil homophobia, we have been askg the wrong qutn all along. In the past, was thought that female maqu engage homosexual relatnships this way only when suable mal are not prent.

In other words, rearchers assumed that homosexual behavr only happens when animals are isolated om members of the oppose sex. Therefore, acrdg to experts, many female Japane maqu nnot be nsired eher preferentially homo- or heterosexual.

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

On the other hand, bee female maqu will reproduce wh mal throughout their lifetime regardls of their tert homosexual behavr, the end the relatnships do not acce any st to lifetime reproductn.

But new rearch shows that even the direct benefs are not required for the persistence of homosexual behavr animals.

GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD

Asked by: Jack England, DorchterHomosexual behavur has been observed at least 1, 500 different animal speci.

In fact, no speci has actually been monstrated to show no cince of homosexual behavur at all, apart om those that don't actually have sex. For those who are still the dark as to what all those labels for var typ of gay mal actually signify, this lk generoly breaks down laymen’s terms.

Bears are chubby, hairy, mascule gay mal who like beer and flannel shirts–but that’s jt the superficial fn.

11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL

Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny.

AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP

While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym. As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns.

People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn.

” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs. Gay, on the other hand, n be ed to scribe a person of any genr who experienc same-sex attractn, although is most often ed to scribe a man who is attracted to men.

THE FABULO KGDOM OF GAY ANIMALS

On June 28, 1969, the New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn, a bar equented by gay and genr-nonnformg people (at a time when terms like LGBTQ didn’t yet exist). They attempted to arrt the gay and trans bar patrons, which started a seri of protts agast the police.

Partially rponse to Stonewall, 1970, queer activists New York Cy anized a march to Central Park wh the theme “Gay Pri. Queer lerally means “strange or odd om a nventnal viewpot, ” and by at least by the late 1800s, queer was ployed as a rogatory term for an effemate or gay man. Queer was seen as a way to refer to gays and lbians whout beg genr-sentialist or g divisns wh the muny.

It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch. To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said. Over the past 20 years, a burst of rearch — driven part by a new generatn of scientists more acceptg of queerns — has shown signifint amounts of prevly unreported homosexual behavr throughout the animal kgdom, om flour beetl to gorillas.

GAY ANIMALS

While few animals are exclively “gay” or “lbian, ” an extraordary number, appears, engage some form of same-sex relatns.

Christian theologians have long poted to the absence of animal homosexualy as evince that humans oughtn’t to be dog , eher.

Thirteenth-century philosopher and prit Thomas Aquas argued that homosexual behavr humans is wrong precisely bee don’t occur between animals. Gee Murray Levick, the explorer who wrote about homosexual behavr Adélie pengus 1911, shield his observatns of pengu “pravy” om sual observers by rerdg them his field not g the Greek alphabet — and they were still cut om the official expedn reports. A proment mammalogist, Valeri Geist, uldn’t help but notice equent homosexual sex at his bighorn sheep field se the 1960s, but Geist avoid publishg those fdgs bee ma him “crge … to nceive of those magnificent beasts as ‘queers.

GAY ANIMALS OUT OF THE CLOSET?

’ ” Years later he relented, wrg that he eventually “admted that the rams lived sentially a homosexual society.

The fact that a bird populatn wh many bond femal sharg a few mal between them would have higher reproductive output led historian and ornhologist Jared Diamond to dryly wonr whether “further study of homosexually paired female birds may help clarify what, if anythg, mal are good for — an evolutnary sense, of urse. ” In social animals, the logic go, absolute homosexualy would produce no offsprg, but absolute heterosexualy uld also be limg, as might make for an anism that is “poor at formg social allianc. “The bisexual advantage mol, ” Savolaen nclus, “is perhaps the most nservative geic explanatn for the persistence of homosexual behavr.