Why It's OK for Birds to Be Gay | Live Science

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• GABRIEL’S NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"SAME WORKSHOP ANNOUNC: BIG BIRD IS GAY--AND CHEMILLY CASTRATED","SCRIPTN":"BELOVED BIRD IS GAY RIGHTS HERO, VICTIM OF STATE VLENCE","IMAGE":[{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":"}],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2021-10-27T12:13:32+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2021-10-27T12:13:32+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":TE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"GABRIEL GARON","URL":","SCRIPTN":"I HAVE THOUGHTS ON CULTURE. DO YOU WANT TO HEAR THEM?","INTIFIER":"ER:11126878"}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"GABRIEL\U2019S NEWSLETTER","URL":","SCRIPTN":"WHATEVER I WANT","TERACTNSTATISTIC":{"@TYPE":"INTERACTNCOUNTER","NAME":"SUBSCRIBERS","TERACTNTYPE":","ERINTERACTNCOUNT":10},"INTIFIER":"PUB:491267","SAMEAS":["]}}SHARE THIS POSTSAME WORKSHOP ANNOUNC: BIG BIRD IS GAY--AND CHEMILLY COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERSAME WORKSHOP ANNOUNC: BIG BIRD IS GAY--AND CHEMILLY CASTRATED
• BIG BIRD REVEALED TO BE PRODUCT OF LONGTIME GAY PARTNERSHIP IN WAKE OF ROMNEY REMARK
• WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
• IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS
• RIGHT-WG PASTOR CLAIMS GAY MEN AND BIG BIRD ARE G FOR YOUR CHILDREN
• 'SAME STREET' FEATUR 2 GAY FATHERS FOR 1ST TIME 51-YEAR HISTORY
• IS LARRY BIRD GAY? THAT’S A BIG NO
• OP-ED: HOW BIG BIRD BROUGHT OUT THE GAY, CLOSETED ROMNEY SUPPORTERS
• ‘SAME STREET’ TAK A BIG LEAP FOR LGBTQ VISIBILY, TRODUC GAY DADS WH A DGHTER

GABRIEL’S NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBESIGN {"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","URL":","MAENTYOFPAGE":","HEADLE":"SAME WORKSHOP ANNOUNC: BIG BIRD IS GAY--AND CHEMILLY CASTRATED","SCRIPTN":"BELOVED BIRD IS GAY RIGHTS HERO, VICTIM OF STATE VLENCE","IMAGE":[{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":"}],"DATEPUBLISHED":"2021-10-27T12:13:32+00:00","DATEMODIFIED":"2021-10-27T12:13:32+00:00","ISACCSIBLEFORFREE":TE,"THOR":[{"@TYPE":"PERSON","NAME":"GABRIEL GARON","URL":","SCRIPTN":"I HAVE THOUGHTS ON CULTURE. DO YOU WANT TO HEAR THEM?","INTIFIER":"ER:11126878"}],"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"GABRIEL\U2019S NEWSLETTER","URL":","SCRIPTN":"WHATEVER I WANT","TERACTNSTATISTIC":{"@TYPE":"INTERACTNCOUNTER","NAME":"SUBSCRIBERS","TERACTNTYPE":","ERINTERACTNCOUNT":10},"INTIFIER":"PUB:491267","SAMEAS":["]}}SHARE THIS POSTSAME WORKSHOP ANNOUNC: BIG BIRD IS GAY--AND CHEMILLY COPY LKFACEBOOKEMAILNOTOTHERSAME WORKSHOP ANNOUNC: BIG BIRD IS GAY--AND CHEMILLY CASTRATED

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. "Yep—Big Bird, our beloved avian iend and Same Street mastay sce the show’s ceptn, is gay. “Big Bird is an activist and hero of the Gay Rights movement the UK.

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. 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. What the Republin printial ndidate possibly didn't know, however, was his now-ntroversial reference to the inic "Same Street" character was an advertent hat tip to the work of a longtime gay uple.

The ter went wild yterday after former Same Street wrer Mark Saltzman told Queerty that he had always imaged Bert and Ernie as a gay uple, like him and his late partner.

BIG BIRD REVEALED TO BE PRODUCT OF LONGTIME GAY PARTNERSHIP IN WAKE OF ROMNEY REMARK

While the two puppets may or may not have been nceived as gay, many people on social media noted that Bert and Ernie were their first glimpse at what a same-sex uple looked like (this thread by transgenr activist Charlotte Clymer is worth readg particular).

“I don’t thk I knew how to rpond to gay flirtg the workplace.

Snuffy Was Also Created Wh Homosexual Unrton. Snufflpag, Big Bird’s giant imagary iend, had a dour personaly that appealed to gay dienc.

WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY

“It’s sort of gay closeted too. “What uld be gayer? “That’s the gayt Same Street ever got.

Nearly one-fifth of all long-term greylag gee upl are gay, posed of two mal.

IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS

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.

RIGHT-WG PASTOR CLAIMS GAY MEN AND BIG BIRD ARE G FOR YOUR CHILDREN

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. They foced on the 93 bird speci whose homosexual teractns scientists had seen the wild.

'SAME STREET' FEATUR 2 GAY FATHERS FOR 1ST TIME 51-YEAR HISTORY

For each speci, the team lculated the equency of homosexual behavr as well as both sex' ntributns to parentg. Overall, homosexual behavr amounted to ls than 5 percent of all sexual activy the 93 speci, though some s was much higher.

IS LARRY BIRD GAY? THAT’S A BIG NO

And sure enough, there was a strong rrelatn between a speci' matg system and s homosexual behavr. 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.

"That's que different to what the tradnal argument is the lerature, where homosexual behavr is seen as a st. "In some s, homosexual allianc may even be adaptive, helpg dividuals fend terrori, advance their social stat, or get help wh parental re. We might thk that homosexualy do not exist birds or parrots.

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.

OP-ED: HOW BIG BIRD BROUGHT OUT THE GAY, CLOSETED ROMNEY SUPPORTERS

In fact, many speci of birds engage homosexual behavr. There are some speci where homosexual activy occurs between eher of the sex.

Don’t believe gay birds are possible? 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. Explanatns of Bird Homosexualy.

‘SAME STREET’ TAK A BIG LEAP FOR LGBTQ VISIBILY, TRODUC GAY DADS WH A DGHTER

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. There have also been theori put forth that homosexual behavr ptive birds is due to the unnatural ndns which they live.