Contents:
- LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
- CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
- 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
" a 2006 exhibn at the Norwegian Natural History Mm of the Universy of Oslo that ed mols, photos, texts, and specimens (like the swans to the right) to rm visors about a small selectn of "gay" animals. Bonobos, one of our clost relativ, may be the most well-known homosexual whal, bottlenose dolphs, Wt Indian manate, and giraff are known to have all-male i. But rearchers have no ia what the advantage is, if any, of homosexual behavr among dragonfli, srab beetl, or, as observed at least once, two male octop of different speci.
Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and/or qutng, and tersex (LGBTQI) people India live a seclud life and often end up sacrificg their inty for the sake of their fay.
Shadab said he has found very hard to be accepted by his fah muny, wh members often cg their terpretatns of the Quran and hadhs about homosexualy. The fact that he might never be accepted as gay by his fay, and that he will never openly e out as gay, do not stop Shadab om spendg time wh his iend’s dog, Leo. 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.
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
Studi and bat on queer (nonhuman) animals have ranged om blogil scriptns of animal queerns, as prented books like Bagemihl’s Blogil exuberance: Animal homosexualy and natural diversy and Roughgarn’s Evolutn’s Rabow: Diversy, genr, and sexualy nature and people, to soclogil bat surroundg qutns such as the queerns of human-animal relatnships[1].
Zoos have even palized on this by anizg events like ‘Gay Night at the Zoo’, or by announcg that “London Zoo celebrat same-sex pengu upl for Pri weekend”. 'Gay' pengus have even bee so popular, that a recent image film about the cy of Cologne – also monly referred to as the Gay Capal of Germany – featured two bowtie-wearg pengus standg next to a rabow flag (seen at 0:57). The rearchers had manipulated one of their gen, which rulted the male fli ‘turng gay’, more precisely: exhibg homosexual behavrs.
The rearchers, Olnwald and Zhang, did not claim that a sgle gene turned people gay, however, was reported that humans do have a siar gene stcture. The discsns rulted heated bat between the LGBTQIA* muny and homophobic groups, which suggted that if there was a ‘gay gene’ homosexualy was a ‘geic fect’ that uld be ‘cured’. Neverthels, not all scientific rearch seekg to unrstand homosexualy other animals do so for the purpose of gag sights to human sexualy.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
Some studi observe nonhuman animals for the purpose of unrstandg them better, whereas yet others have sought to unrstand homosexual behavrs other animals for enomic advantage. [10] Although the studi were nducted the 90s, they are still tellg of how the animal dtry regards other animals as objects that serve the purpose of enomic gas, and homosexual behavrs simply as a barrier to ‘efficient’ (re)productn.
(Note: Siar – albe differently motivated – arguments were and sometim still are also ed for the persecutn of homosexuals, for example unr the German Nazi regime, where homosexualy was regard a menace to ‘natnal reproductive paci’, which had to be elimated. It’s problematic, bee normaliz pengus beg held ptive zoos, and bee impli that the gay pengus are ‘good gays’ bee they live as monogamo upl who raise children.