Ffli tap to their gay si | Nature

Contents:

• AIR POLLUTN MIGHT BE TURNG F FLI GAY
• IS AIR POLLUTN TURNG F FLI ‘GAY’? NOT QUE.
• FFLI TAP TO THEIR GAY SI
• GAY MORALIST: SO THAT’S WHY THEY LL THEM U FLI
• SCIENTISTS TURN F FLI GAY, STRAIGHT AGA

AIR POLLUTN MIGHT BE TURNG F FLI GAY

March 2023 is shapg up to be a banner month for gay animal news. Now, a German rearch team has disvered that air pollutn is turng male u fli gay (y, really), a quick queer sect primer.

However, rearchers at Germany’s Max Planck Instute for Chemil Elogy did study the impact of climate change on the “global cle on sect populatns, ” by exposg male u fli to amounts of ozone siar to that found at ground level polluted ci for two found that the pollutn led to an crease gay urtships between male u fli, which they believe may be due to the fli’ creased pheromone levels. ”But before the worst person on your nt’s Facebook feed somehow ozone-ied fli as an exce to be homophobic, ’s worth notg that, most s, same-sex relatnships between animals are credibly mon and healthy.

So far, queerns has been found 1, 500 speci, om giraff, of which an timated 90% are gay, to swans, 20% of whom are gay relatnships, often wh fai.

IS AIR POLLUTN TURNG F FLI ‘GAY’? NOT QUE.

While several studi fd homosexualy humans and other animals is blogil rather than learned, a qutn remas over whether 's a hard-wired phenomenon or one that n be altered. A new study fds dgs or geic manipulatn n turn the homosexual behavr of u fli on and off wh a matter of hours. While the geic fdg supports the thkg that homosexualy is hard-wired, the dg fdg surprisgly suggts 's not that fact, homosexualy the u fli seems to be regulated by how they terpret the scent of another.

Dramatic rultHomosexualy is wispread the animal world. But scientists have long bated whether, humans a "gay gene" exists. "Based on our prev work, we reasoned that GB mutants might show homosexual behavr bee their glutamatergic synaps were altered some way, " Featherstone said.

"Homosexual urtship might be sort of an 'overreactn' to sexual stimuli. As predicted, they were able to turn fly homosexualy on and off, wh hours.

FFLI TAP TO THEIR GAY SI

"Sense of smellThe team figured fly bras mata two sensory circus: one to trigger heterosexual behavr and one for homosexual.

When GB supprs glutamatergic synaps, the homosexual circu is blocked, the thkg they did more tts. A study 2005 found that when smellg a chemil om ttosterone, portns of the human bras active sexual activy were turned on gay men and straight women, but not straight at least among u fli, "pheromon are powerful sexual stimuli, " Featherstone said.

"The rearch was published onle today by the journal Nature AnimalsGay Men Rpond Differently to PheromonTop 10 Swgers of the Animal Kgdom. While this is te, scientists don’t e words like gay, lbian, bisexual, or queer to scribe the behavrs of animals—Here’s why. Although evangelils will argue that homosexualy is unnatural, same-sex terurse is found many speci.

GAY MORALIST: SO THAT’S WHY THEY LL THEM U FLI

While naturally occurrg homosexual behavrs animals are a great way to bat arguments that homosexualy is limed to humans, pollutn-duced behavrs like that found u fli are more of a stark warng of the effects of human rbon emissns than a queer w.

SCIENTISTS TURN F FLI GAY, STRAIGHT AGA

For a more -pth, and scientific, look at homosexualy animals, read this article by LGBTQ Natn. In 2010, a Universy of California, Berkley study lnched outrageo verage like that of Alex Jone’s famo “they’re turng the ogs gay” rant.

Much like how homosexual behavrs animals isn’t referred to as “gay, ” the changg of sex animals should not be equated to transgenr humans, as genr is a human-ma societal nstct. And if that’s not enough to make you do a double-take, get this: turns out air pollutn may be makg them even gayer!