Are You an Otter, a Dolph, or a Gazelle? Gay Slang Explaed - The WOW Report

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

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.

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.

MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE

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.

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. The bonobo ap, for example, palize on the release of the bondg hormone oxytoc durg homosexual sex to strengthen the social allianc between femal.

11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL

(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.

GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD

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. “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.

5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY

“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. 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.

” 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.

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

” 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.

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

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”?

“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.

“Gay men — some gay men — are unaaid of exaggeratn, moved by strong emotn and passn, and tend to go a wee b over the top. For gay men who tly live for our dogs, we give our whole hearts to everythg we love, and our dogs are on the top of the list, right above our partners, parents, and personal traers. Asked by: Jack England, DorchterHomosexual behavur has been observed at least 1, 500 different animal speci.

CAN DOGS BE GAY? WELL, Y AND NO…

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. You probably wouldn't have learned about blogy class, but homosexual behavur is very mon all across the animal kgdom (some zoologists timate that about 1, 500 animal speci are known to display some form of ).

Photo: Julia Zavalisha (Shutterstock)There are still people out there who thk that beg gay is “unnatural, ” but they uldn’t be more wrong.

It’s been observed more than 1, 500 animal speci, om sects and other vertebrat, right up the evolutnary ladr to primat and the most part, we’re not sure why—what evolutnary advantage do homosexual uplg provi to dolphs (other than happier dolphs)? What’s really unnatural is that so many people still assume animals adhere to the “moral” of a small number of humans—so if you happen to n to anyone like that, pot them to this list of the 11 most gay animals on Sergey Uryadnikov (Shutterstock)Bonobos, a speci of great ap native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are the hippi of the animal kgdom.

HOW DO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE GAY/HOMOSEXUAL ANIMALS IMPACT THE IA THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?

Homosexual sex has been observed a number of dolph speci, but has been studied most thoroughly bottlenose dolphs.