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CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

Many teens have a lot of qutns when to homosexualy and bisexualy. In a culture that is often so damng of orientatn and sexual inty outsi heterosexualy, many teens bee nervo when they feel attracted to those of the same sex, worried that they might be gay. Others spect (or are even very sure) that they are homosexual or bisexual, but are * bees and gay *

Songwrer Cole, who first h big the 1920s, wouldn't risk paradg his homosexualy public.

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.

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* bees and gay *

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. 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. 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?

BIRDS DO , BE DO ... FACT VIRTUALLY ALL ANIMALS HAVE 'GAY' RELATNSHIPS, SCIENTISTS SAY

"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. 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.

Baldw, the first openly gay member of the Senate, was joed by lleagu who troduced the bill the 27% Protected om Conversn TherapyMovement Advancement Project updated a report on “nversn therapy” to reflect that Rho Island jt banned the practice that proports to nvert LGBT people to heterosexualy or a cisgenr inty.

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CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

GAY “BE” SHOULD STG STIGMAS STEAD OF SASS THEM

BIRDS DO , BE DO ... FACT VIRTUALLY ALL ANIMALS HAVE 'GAY' RELATNSHIPS, SCIENTISTS SAY