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Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay.

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GAY BIRRS' CLUB MARKS 25TH ANNIVERSARY

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.

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.

GAY BIRDWATCHERS HYPERVENTILATE AFTER BEG CHASED DOWN BY MEXIN RTEL

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.

The Gay Birrs’ Club (GBC) is markg s 25-year anniversary by raisg funds to help buy 25 acr of fort Mexi. Found 1995 by a group of 10 gay men, gay women soon joed and the club grew rapidly.

A gay uple om Indiana were filmed hyperventilatg after beg chased their r and pulled over by an armed rtel while birdwatchg Mexi. Although rarely addrsed the lerature, sexual teractns between dividuals of the same sex occur birds, wh over 130 avian speci worldwi beg documented as engagg same-sex sexual, same-sex, or homosexual behavrs (Bagemihl 1999).

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

Although the patterns of behavr may be cricized when termed same-sex sexual, many thors have fed the associatns as “isosexual, ” “trasexual, ” or “homosexual” (e. Animal homosexualy and natural diversy, 1999LondonProfile Books Ltd.., Courtship. Homosexual behavur wild orange-onted parakeets, Condor, 1966, vol.

Homosexual behavur and female-male mountg mammals-a first survey, Mamm Rev, 1984, vol.

Reciprol homosexual mountg alie pengus Pygoscelis aliae, Emu, 1998, vol.

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Goslgs of gay gee, Nature, 1989, vol.

Homosexual pulatns by male tree swallows, Wilson Bull, 1994, vol. Induced homosexual behavur male hoe fch: the “prisoner effect”, Ethol El Evol, 1999, vol. Dmmg by, and an stance of homosexual behavur the lser goln-backed woodpecker, Dopium benghalense, J Bombay Nat Hist Soc, 1962, vol.

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