New rearch shows the gen that make men gay appear to make their mothers and nts more reproductively succsful.
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?
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. * 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”).
GAY SHARKS
Rachael Stt, reviewg for the web magaze, prais the movie for beg possibly “the first animated film to portray a ‘gay’ character.
” 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. 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.
ANDY COHEN REVEALS ANRSON COOPER AS 'GAY SHARK' IN BRAVOCON SURPRISE
“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.
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
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.
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.
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.
WHY ARE THERE GAY MEN?
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.