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By now everyone has heard of the high school English honors teacher, Dan DeLong, who was spend for offerg stunts the Seed magaze article "The Gay Animal Kgdom" by Jonah Lehrer as an optnal extra cred assignment.

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TNT'S 'ANIMAL KGDOM' WEAV GAY STORYLE A MACHO, VLENT WORLD

TNT's hmen drama "Animal Kgdom" is about a fay of crimals stgglg to keep their wealth tact and themselv out of jail. The show's creator and one of s stars talked to NBC OUT about the gay storyle weaved to this grippg drama. * gay animal kingdom *

However, as the first season to a close Tuday night, viewers have seen that each of Smurf's boys has his own love/hate relatnship wh his mother, while they try to pull yet another big what do you do if you’re the middle of this tense, vlent world, and you’re hidg the fact that you’re gay? The sexualy of youngt son, Deran (Jake Weary), however, hasn’t been portrayed as your typil g out story, and that’s been the tentn of the seri, based on the acclaimed 2010 Atralian film of the same name, was veloped for TNT by executive producer Jonathan Lis, who talked to NBC OUT recently, along wh Weary, to break down Deran’s story and whether ’s te this se that mothers always know when to their gay Weary plays Deran, a young crimal stgglg wh his sexualy, on TNT's "Animal Kgdom.

I mean, he n’t jt be who he is and fd his We thk about Deran sometim as, some ways, the baby of the fay but also the one who’s most posssed of his own need to pe the gravy of her power and so he might be able to one day have his own life if he n ever work this OUT: I’m always watchg Smurf, bee beg a gay man, I believe mothers always know.

THE GAY ANIMAL KGDOM SHOULD NOW BE REQUIRED READG

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Roy and Silo belong to one of as many as 1, 500 speci of wild and ptive animals that have been observed engagg homosexual activy. Unlike most humans, however, dividual animals generally nnot be classified as gay or straight: an animal that engag a same-sex flirtatn or partnership do not necsarily shun heterosexual enunters.

The observatns suggt to some that bisexualy is a natural state among animals, perhaps Homo sapiens clud, spe the sexual-orientatn boundari most people take for granted.

Some of the same fluenc may enurage what some rearchers ll “suatnal homosexualy” humans same-sex settgs such as prisons or sports teams. Then, durg the first half of the 1900s, var vtigators scribed homosexual behavr baboons, garter snak and gentoo pengus, among other speci. In the Journal of Animal Behavr Haton observed that femal offered sex to the more domant maqu of the same sex: “homosexual behavr is of relatively equent occurrence the female when she is threatened by another female, but is rarely manifted rponse to sexual hunger.

11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL

On TNT's "Animal Kgdom," one of the Cody boys is revealed to be a secret gay relatnship wh a surfer iend. * gay animal kingdom *

” And mal, he penned, “homosexual allianc between mature and immature mal may posss a fensive value for immature mal, sce they sure the assistance of an adult fenr the event of an attack. “The more homosexualy, the more peaceful the speci, ” asserts Petter Böckman, an amic adviser at the Universy of Oslo’s Mm of Natural History Norway.

In other stanc, homosexual bondg between female parents n boost the survival of offsprg when male-female pairgs are not possible. Featherstone of the Universy of Illois at Chigo and his lleagu found that they uld swch on homosexual leangs u fli by manipulatg a gene for a prote they ll “genrbld, ” which regulat munitn between nrons that secrete and rpond to the nrotransmter glutamate. The fdg suggts that wild u fli may be prewired for both heterosexual and homosexual behavr, the thors wre, but that the genrbld prote supprs the glutamate-based circus that promote homosexual behavr.

Phillips of the Universy of Queensland Brisbane, Atralia, and his lleagu observed 43 stanc of homosexual activy among female koalas livg a same-sex enclosure at the Lone Pe Koala Sanctuary. “The homosexual behavr prerv sexual functn, ” Phillips says, enablg an animal to mata s reproductive fns and tert sexual activy. Rearchers have found still other reasons for homosexual behavr domtited ttle—which is such a mon occurrence that farmers and animal breers have veloped terms for .

TNT'S "ANIMAL KGDOM" HAS A BIG GAY SECRET (SPOILERS)"HE’LL GO TO THE EXTREME TO KEEP THIS SECRET."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}TVBY DAN AVERYJUNE 28, 2016/12:40 PMBY DAN AVERYJUNE 28, 2016 / 12:40 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"TNT'S \"ANIMAL KGDOM\" HAS A BIG GAY SECRET (SPOILERS)","DATEPUBLISHED":"2016-06-28T16:40:53.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2016-06-28T16:40:53.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"TV"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TNT'S NEW DRAMA ANIMAL KGDOM HAS GIVEN VIEWERS LOTS OF TRIGUE, FAY DYNAMICS AND ELLEN BARK AS ONE OF THE BADST MAMA'S ON TELEVISN. 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From the wir: OSLO (Rters) – The birds and the be may be gay, acrdg to theworld’s first mm exhibn about homosexualy among animals. Whdocumentatn of gay or lbian behavr among giraff, pengus, parrots, beetl, whal and dozens of other creatur, the OsloNatural History Mm nclus human homosexualy nnot be viewedas "unnatural". "We may have […] * gay animal kingdom *

Homosexual mountg is much rarer among ttle the wild, Phillips asserts, based on his rearch on grs Malaysia, a wild unterpart to domtited ttle. Strs and the greater availabily of same-sex partners may siarly ntribute to the practice of homosexual acts among self-scribed heterosexual humans environments such as the ary, jails and sports teams.

In strsful same-sex environments such as prisons or a war zone, heterosexuals may engage homosexual behavr part to relieve tensn. One possible sign of more hospable ndns might be a rate of homosexualy more le wh that of wild members of the same speci.

THE GAY ANIMAL KGDOM

Some people, however, ntt the notn that zookeepers should prevent or disurage homosexual behavr among the animals they re for. And whereas ptivy may engenr what appears to be an unnaturally high level of homosexual activy some animal speci, human same-sex environments might brg out normal tennci that other settgs tend to supprs. In the 1800s, reports of sexual behavur between male beetl fuelled fierce bat between scientists and naturalists about homosexualy.

In the UK, male homosexualy was only crimalised 1967 – some untri ’s still illegal, and others wir rights for LGBTQ+ people are disregard. When two male or two female animals showed an tert each other, scientists and rearchers would often scribe this as homosexual behavur. The domtic sheep is one of the most famo queer animals, wh as many as 10% of rams beg exclively homosexual, and up to 22% beg bisexual.

MM EXHIBN SHOWS GAY ANIMAL KGDOM

While the past homosexual behavur was often ignored or dismissed, today’s open-md scientists are leadg the way disverg more about the LGBTQ+ si of the animal kgdom. One such entomologist, Henri Ga Kerville, published the first scientific illtratn of homosexual animals 1896 that tails two male srab beetl durg matg season. However, while scientists have proven that speci n flourish their homosexualy, the qutn of why exists has puzzled them for centuri.

Kurt Kotrschal, a behavral blogist at the Universy of Vienna, qutns if homosexualy is prerved to stabilize natural selectn or is an unavoidable product of bra velopment. The late zoologist Konrad Lorenz had been faiar wh the study of homosexual greylag gee for years when notg 1963 how pairs of partnered mal equently attaed social superry goose loni.

By now everyone has heard of the high school English honors teacher, Dan DeLong, who was spend for offerg stunts the Seed magaze article "The Gay Animal Kgdom" by Jonah Lehrer as an optnal extra cred assignment. Bee they were threatened by this ia, the Board is nfsg that ANY discsn that homosexualy uld be natural is therefore appropriate. They know full well that homosexualy exists and that there is currently a "bate" about whether or not all people should be granted human rights.

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And if not this article, I would certaly make the issu of gay marriage, gay adoptn, and gay service the ary part of any discsn on current affairs. What's ironic about the nservative outrage over gay rights is that the "homosexual agenda" is revealg self to be an herently nservative movement. A first-ever mm display, "Agast Nature?, " which opened last month at the Universy of Oslo's Natural History Mm Norway, prents 51 speci of animals exhibg homosexualy.

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Animals and homophobia: Are humans the only speci that discrimat agast gays? .

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