Gay Shark, a fixture on Cohen’s "Watch What Happens Live" program, showed a crowd this week that a faiar face was si the stume.
Contents:
- IS THIS SHARK GAY?
- GAY SHARKS
- ANDY COHEN REVEALS ANRSON COOPER AS 'GAY SHARK' IN BRAVOCON SURPRISE
- CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
- WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
- WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
IS THIS SHARK GAY?
* are there gay sharks *
That’s the only way I n expla a wrg assignment that clud the stctns: “I need you to go to a movie and fd out whether the shark is gay. A gay shark don’t make any sense-unls ’s a movie for children. Ramon Johnson, wrg for Gay Life on, says the movie “sends a msage of hope to closeted gay men who live their liv feelg different and out of touch.
Johnson go on, “The siari between Lenny and some gay men is even more apparent when he cross-drs as a dolph. While there are some classic them we all agree on (“Do what is right”), there are others we don’t (“Gay is OK”).
Rachael Stt, reviewg for the web magaze, prais the movie for beg possibly “the first animated film to portray a ‘gay’ character.
GAY SHARKS
” Lenny is “a vegetarian-a clear phemism for beg gay. ” Pl Clton, reviewg for, agre that “Lenny’s ‘otherns’ uld very easily be read as beg gay” and “his overall meanor is as subtle as a rabow flag at a Republin nventn.
Lenny is more giddy than gay. If their tentn was to munite a pro-gay msage to children, they failed; not many reviewers got , eher.
ANDY COHEN REVEALS ANRSON COOPER AS 'GAY SHARK' IN BRAVOCON SURPRISE
But to Ed Vagliano of the Amerin Fay Associatn Journal, this wasn’t a double-entendre pched at grownups, but a sneaky attempt to teach children acceptance of homosexualy. “The way Vagliano se , any rtoon shark that don’t eat meat is clearly HOMOSEXUAL.
The fdg suggts that homosexual behavr n enhance a male’s abily to pass on his gen by attractg femal that wouldn’t be terted him otherwise.
Molli aren’t the only fish that exhib homosexual behavr. Reference: “Homosexual behavur creas male attractivens to femal” by David Bierbach, Christian T. The qutn of whether animals n be gay is one that has long fascated and ed nsternatn to scientists and laypeople alike.
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
Neverthels, the topic of same-sex behavur animals, and how such behavurs may have e to evolve is a fascatg the terms ‘gay’ and ‘heterosexual’ shouldn't really be applied to animalsDpe s e our tle, terms like 'gay' or 'heterosexual’ may not be the bt to e when scribg sexual behavurs animals. Bee of this, animal ‘homosexualy’ has often been ignored, or else scientists have enavoured to fd var adaptive benefs to expla s of the adaptive explanatns clu var hypothised social benefs. Contrary to this le of thought, however, more recent terpretatns have qutned whether the paradox of animal ‘homosexualy’ is really a paradox at all.
Nearly one-fifth of all long-term greylag gee upl are gay, posed of two mal. 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. 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.
WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
They foced on the 93 bird speci whose homosexual teractns scientists had seen the wild. 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.
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. "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.
WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
"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. Why is that the Gays n get an entire month for "Celebratg" when Sharks only get one week? In my gay opn, if you go on a realy show and you don’t know your rmatn then you serve what you get.
While female sexualy appears to be more fluid, rearch suggts that male gayns is an born, unalterable, strongly geilly fluenced tra. But nsirg that the tra disurag the type of sex that leads to procreatn — that is, sex wh women — and would therefore seem to thwart s own chanc of beg geilly passed on to the next generatn, why are there gay men at all? Put differently, why haven't gay man gen driven themselv extct?