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Contents:

• BEG GAY IS NATURAL: JT ASK BONOBOS (OP-ED)
• GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
• 5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

BEG GAY IS NATURAL: JT ASK BONOBOS (OP-ED)

In a survey by our Homoid Psychology Rearch Group survey, only 15 percent of people who had the hight level of tn (universy) knew that bonobos are great ap. But the bate over whether gay marriage, or any other non-reproductive sexual relatnship, is "natural, " no other animal holds more importance. Homosexualy bonobos is not cultural.

(Image cred: © Chris Johnson – earthOCEAN)Homosexualy has been documented more than 450 speci of vertebrat signalg that sexual preference is blogilly termed animals.

GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD

)Homosexualy has been documented almost 500 speci of animals, signalg that sexual preference is pretermed. They pulate equently, scream out light while dog so, and often engage homosexual activi. About two thirds of the homosexual activi are amongst femal.

Mal also take to homosexual play but tend to leave their partner soon after, makg what we ll the human world a one night stand. In many s, homosexual activy is said to be more mon than heterosexual. (Image cred: © Chris Johnson – earthOCEAN)Homosexual activy occurs wh about the same equency as heterosexual play amongst the mare mammals.

Male bottlenose dolphs are generally bisexual, but they go through perds of beg exclively homosexual. The homosexual activi of the mammals clu oral sex durg which time one dolph stimulat the other wh s snout. [See more pictur of dolphs]BisonHomosexual mountg between mal tends to be more mon than heterosexual female-male pulatn among Amerin bison, pecially bee femal only mate wh the bulls about once a year.

5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY

Homosexual mountg enpass almost 9 percent of all sexual activi wh the hoofed mammals the wild. (Image cred: WWT)Homosexual upl acunt for up to 20 percent of all pairgs annually. Almost a quarter of all fai are parented by homosexual upl that rema together for years.

(Image cred: Geoff Shter)Splashg around the water is brought to a pletely new level gray whal, where homosexual teractns are que mon. (Image cred: worldswildlifewonrs | Shutterstock)Mal of this stunng perchg bird light homosexualy. Almost 40 percent of the male populatn engag a form of homosexual activy and a small percentage don't ever pulate wh femal.

Unlike chimps, bonobos are naturally bisexual—and happily engage homosexual acts for enjoyment, to solve nflicts, and to get ahead the tribe. One of the big arguments put forward agast homosexualy is that ’s unnatural, a viatn of the human md. Acrdg to Natnal Geographic, around 75 percent of bonobo sex is non-reproductive—and that clus an enormo amount of homosexual uplgs.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Now, jt bee bonobos are remarkably progrsive where homosexualy is ncerned don’t mean their behavr translat to humans. But do put paid to the ia that homosexualy is somehow “unnatural. NatGeo: Homosexual Activy Among Animals Stirs Debate.

Female bonobos have gay sex to improve their social stat. 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. "Homosexualy has been observed more than 1, 500 speci, and the phenomenon has been well scribed for 500 of them, " said Petter Bockman, project ordator of the ia, however, is rarely discsed the scientific muny and is often dismissed as unnatural bee don't appear to benef the larger e of speci ntuatn.

Conversely, some argue that homosexual sex uld have a bigger natural e than jt pure ecstasy: namely evolutnary benefs. In suatns when a speci is mostly bisexual, homosexual relatnships allow an animal to jo a pack. "In some bird speci that bond for life, homosexual pairs raise young.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

"Mom and Dad and Dad Almost a quarter of black swan fai are parented by homosexual upl. "Homosexualy" and "heterosexualy" are terms fed by societal boundari, visible the animal kgdom.

In one speci of gecko, femal clone most plex issu, animal homosexualy is challengg and poorly unrstood. "I've had primatologists offer to give me their data on homosexual behavr bee they didn't want to publish , " Wolfe said.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

" was set up partly to mystify the argument that a homosexual way of livg nnot be accepted bee is agast the "laws of nature" n now be rejected scientifilly, said Geir Soli, project lear for the exhibn.

"To learn more, see LiveScience's Top 10 prentatn, Gay Animals: Alternate Liftyl the Really Wild StoriSpir Cri Out While MatgThe Paful Reali of Hyena SexSalmon of Small Stature Endowed wh Matg AdvantageWell-fed Crickets Seek Sex Incsantly, Die YoungMystery of Empty Chicken Sex SolvedSmart Bats Have Smaller Tticl. Songwrer Cole, who first h big the 1920s, wouldn't risk paradg his homosexualy public.

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

Zoologists are disverg that homosexual and bisexual activy is not unknown wh the animal and Silo, two male chstrap pengus at New York's Central Park Zoo have been separable for six years now. Filmmakers recently went search of homosexual wild animals as part of a Natnal Geographic Ultimate Explorer documentary about the female's role the matg game. "The homosexual behavr that go on is pletely bafflg and trigug, " says Natnal Geographic Ultimate Explorer rrponnt, Mireya Mayor.

"Well, perhaps, a roundabout way, they are seekg mal, suggts primatologist Amy argu that female maqu may enhance their social posn through homosexual timacy which turn fluenc breedg succs. He believ bonobos e sex to rolve nflicts between animals appear to go through a homosexual phase before they bee fully mature. The fact that homosexualy do, after all, exist the natural world is bound to be ed agast people who sist such behavr is the U.

Many on the relig right regard homosexualy as a s. And only this month, Print Bh vowed to ntue his bid to ban gay marriag after the Senate blocked the proposal.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Already, s of animal homosexualy have been ced succsful urt s brought agast stat like Texas, where gay sex was, until recently, scientists say we should be wary of referrg to animals when nsirg what's acceptable human society.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

For stance, fantici, as practiced by lns and many other animals, isn't somethg people, gay or straight, generally approve of HomosexualySo how far n we go g animals to help unrstand human homosexualy?

"The bottom le is that anythg that happens other primat, and particularly other ap, is likely to have strong evolutnary ntuy wh what happens humans, " he says the bonobo's e of homosexual activy for social bondg is a possible example, addg, "One of the ma arguments for human homosexual behavr is that helps bond male groups together, particularly where a group of dividuals are pennt on each other, as they might be huntg or warfare. "For stance, the Spartans, ancient Greece, enuraged homosexualy among their ele troops.

Another suggtn is that homosexualy is a velopmental phase people go through. "But he adds that homosexualy don't necsarily have to have a functn.

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

However, as Dunbar adms, there's a long way to go before the of homosexualy humans are fully said, "Nobody's really vtigated this issue thoroughly, bee 's so polilly sensive. Of particular tert ssg out the environmental factors that may have urged the evolutn of ever more plex forms of telligence—arguably culmatg Homo sapiens—has been the parison between the social stctur of the chimpanzee and s close relative, the bonobo (Pan panisc).