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:
- DOGS AND GAY MEN: A MATCH MA HEAVEN
- MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE
- 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
- GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
- 5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY
- ARE YOU AN OTTER, A DOLPH, OR A GAZELLE? GAY SLANG EXPLAED
- CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
- CAN DOGS BE GAY? WELL, Y AND NO…
- HOW DO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE GAY/HOMOSEXUAL ANIMALS IMPACT THE IA THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?
DOGS AND GAY MEN: A MATCH MA HEAVEN
* gay men and animal *
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.
MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE
Is my dog gay if he humps another dog? Answerg this qutn requir unrstandg the many reasons dog hump one another - we'll expla this post! * gay men and animal *
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.
’ ” 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.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
” 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.
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: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
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.
5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY
“Dogs wele any chance to be outdoors wh a group of half-drsed homosexuals, whether ’s for a gay pri para, a Lady Gaga ncert, or a Log Cab nventn the Ozarks, ” says the charmg thor, who unts Joan Rivers and Carson Krsley among his book’s many fans. As turns out, there are a few key factors makg dogs grateful for Gay Pri Month, DePris explas. “Here are three reasons a dog prefers to be ‘owned’ by [gay people] stead of hets: 1) The gay ‘fay’ dog ually don’t have to play send oboe to two-legged children.
Gay men are sentially jt as greedy, though we will share our toys wh men if they buy a meal first.
ARE YOU AN OTTER, A DOLPH, OR A GAZELLE? GAY SLANG EXPLAED
3) Dogs love to be the spoiled ‘kids’ of a gay uple — two and all the bbl and nylon bon that money n buy. “There are wonrful gay and straight dog owners out there, and there are horrible gay and straight dog owners out there, too. When a sensible, rponsible gay man — if such a creature exists — ms to a dog, the dog be his fay, his kid, and a tly important part of his world.
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
” When breers, rcuers, or shelter-dog adoptn unselors see a potential dog owner/adopter who is gay, they tend to jump for joy, figurg that dog will enjoy a great, pampered life. For lots of gay men, dogs exist as substut for lovers, children, close fay, and maybe even good iends.
CAN DOGS BE GAY? WELL, Y AND NO…
” Acceptance, tolerance, unndnal love … the are thgs dogs give everybody, but gay people haven’t always been the beneficiari of such gifts om their fellow humans. Are gays pecially appreciative of that ne love — more, perhaps, than someone who’s never experienced tolerance or prejudice?
Dogs live to nnect, and the unndnal love a dog offers when he rais a paw or bs his nose his new owner’s crotch may be the first te moment of ‘fay’ a gay man experienc.
Might gay people be more likely to overlook “what everybody else thks” by boldly selectg a maligned breed as a ne pann? If dogs let some gay people experience fay at s nonjudgmental bt for the first time, do dogs livg wh gay folks feel the difference, not beg objectified as “pets”?
HOW DO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE GAY/HOMOSEXUAL ANIMALS IMPACT THE IA THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?
“I don’t see gayns havg much to do wh how open you are to givg of your heart or yourself, ” the thor says. “I know plenty of gay men who wouldn’t expend the energy to water a Christmas ct, no ls re for a needy, four-legged animal. But I thk ’s fair to say that most gay dog owners are equally, if not more, as voted to their ne panns as our straight unterparts.