Are Black Mask and Mister Zsasz gay? Birds of Prey director weighs - Polygon

Contents:

• WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
• 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
• GENIS: HOW THE GAY BIRRS OF NORTH AMERI CAME TO BE
• BIG BIRD REVEALED TO BE PRODUCT OF LONGTIME GAY PARTNERSHIP IN WAKE OF ROMNEY REMARK
• BIRDMAN ADMS TO BEG GAY?
• ARE BLACK MASK AND MISTER ZSASZ GAY?
• STUDY SAYS POLLUTN MAK BIRDS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY

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

11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL

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.

GENIS: HOW THE GAY BIRRS OF NORTH AMERI CAME TO BE

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.

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

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.

BIRDMAN ADMS TO BEG GAY?

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.

ARE BLACK MASK AND MISTER ZSASZ GAY?

"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.

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Prented by Plumas Audubon Society, Plumas County Gay-Straight Alliance, Feather River Land Tst, and Friends of Plumas WilrnsPre-registratn requted and those who register will be entered to a prize raffle! However, scientific quiry to such behavrs didn’t happen until relatively recently due to historilly pervasive, negative attus towards homosexualy humans. New work by evolutnary blogists suggts that perhaps, bld by historil homophobia, we have been askg the wrong qutn all along.

STUDY SAYS POLLUTN MAK BIRDS GAY

In the past, was thought that female maqu engage homosexual relatnships this way only when suable mal are not prent. In other words, rearchers assumed that homosexual behavr only happens when animals are isolated om members of the oppose sex. Intertgly enough, siar views once existed ncerng human homosexualy.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Therefore, acrdg to experts, many female Japane maqu nnot be nsired eher preferentially homo- or heterosexual. On the other hand, bee female maqu will reproduce wh mal throughout their lifetime regardls of their tert homosexual behavr, the end the relatnships do not acce any st to lifetime reproductn.

But new rearch shows that even the direct benefs are not required for the persistence of homosexual behavr animals. By sheddg the taboo of the study of homosexualy wildlife and makg the shift om Why?

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)?