Angry Birds, a popular mobile game aimed at children, celebrated "Pri Month" by postg gay and transgenr versns of their characters to Twter.
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‘ANGRY BIRDS’ GAME CELEBRAT ‘PRI MONTH’ WH GAY BIRD ART
Angry Birds, a popular mobile game aimed at children, celebrated “Pri Month” by postg gay and transgenr versns of their characters to Twter. Angry Birds also claimed the gay relatnships were not “non, ” spe the fact that some “spice” has been hted at the anchise before.
Sopoulos-Lloyd’s experience is echoed by many people who intify as LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer), and who have lived much of their liv feelg “othered” by a society that centers people who are whe, straight, and cisgenr (their assigned sex at birth match their genr inty). “Birdg trips wh straight men have been very difficult, ” says Chase Mennhall, a cisgenr gay man and curator of birds at the Carnegie Mm of Natural History.
WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
In 1994, the Gay Birrs’ Club was found the UK, and a year later, a siar group, lled GAGGLE, was tablished Atlanta, Geia. Around that time, Jennifer Rycenga, who’s now a profsor of relig studi at San Jose State Universy, was searchg for a gay-leang birdg group San Francis. Today, some two s after the first gay-birdg groups formed, outdoor spac are signifintly more diverse, acceptg, and safe.
“I’m black, gay, and non-Christian, ” says Chris Cooper, a board member for NYC Audubon. Nearly one-fifth of all long-term greylag gee upl are gay, posed of two mal.
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.