So many animal nam for gay men! WOWlebry Tom Goss breaks down the var homo subsets this rmative vio. For stance: Did you know that I'm a manatee? That Blake Jabs is an Ewok? And Thair is a turkey? Watch the vio to unrstand why that's so hilar. And sad. So very, very sad.
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
* gay animals terms *
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
For those who are still the dark as to what all those labels for var typ of gay mal actually signify, this lk generoly... * gay animals terms *
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. 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.
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
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. 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. 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 ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
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.
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.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
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.
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.
AN ILLTRATED GUI TO REGNIZG YOUR GAY STEREOTYP
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. ’ ” 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 FABULO KGDOM OF GAY ANIMALS
“The bisexual advantage mol, ” Savolaen nclus, “is perhaps the most nservative geic explanatn for the persistence of homosexual behavr. Therefore, aversn to homosexual sex would have had to specifilly arise over the history of life, which this team of rearchers fds unlikely, sce the opportuny st of same-sex sex is relatively low. ”As most any Homo sapiens will tell you, sex that don’t brg about offsprg n still be worthwhile.
GAY ANIMALS
The bonobo ap, for example, palize on the release of the bondg hormone oxytoc durg homosexual sex to strengthen the social allianc between femal.
(As one gay weekly newspaper joked, “Grdr has announced a new gay cisg app for dolphs, lled Flippr. Vasey and his team methodilly tted the var theori that have been proposed for the persistence of homosexual sex the monkeys: that the femal were exprsg domance; that they were barterg for parental re; that they were rencilg after a fight; or (my personal favore) that they were stagg sexual enunters to exce nearby mal, what I’d ll the “you wish, guys” theory of monkey lbianism. Sodomy laws stayed on the books until 2003, when the Supreme Court led them unnstutnal — aid by an amic brief cg the rearch that had e out the meantime documentg homosexual activy among might have known about the sheer diversy of animal sexualy a long time ago if we, as a culture, had managed to lower our blrs.
The qutn of whether animals n be gay is one that has long fascated and ed nsternatn to scientists and laypeople alike. Neverthels, the topic of same-sex behavur animals, and how such behavurs may have e to evolve is a fascatg the terms ‘gay’ and ‘heterosexual’ shouldn't really be applied to animalsDpe s e our tle, terms like 'gay' or 'heterosexual’ may not be the bt to e when scribg sexual behavurs animals. Bee of this, animal ‘homosexualy’ has often been ignored, or else scientists have enavoured to fd var adaptive benefs to expla s of the adaptive explanatns clu var hypothised social benefs.
GAY ANIMALS OUT OF THE CLOSET?
Contrary to this le of thought, however, more recent terpretatns have qutned whether the paradox of animal ‘homosexualy’ is really a paradox at all.
(Image cred: © Chris Johnson – earthOCEAN)Homosexualy has been documented more than 450 speci of vertebrat signalg that sexual preference is blogilly termed animals.