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The difficulty of that challenge, more than any implic or explic homophobia, may be why past blogists skirted the THE LAST DECADE, however, Pl Vasey and others have begun velopg new hypoth based on actual, prolonged observatn of different animals, cipherg the ways given homosexual behavrs may have evolved and the evolutnary role they might play wh the ntext of dividual speci. So far, the only real ncln this relatively small body of lerature seems to pot to, llectively, is a kd of flatg, meta-ncln: a sgle explanatn of homosexual behavr animals may not be possible, bee thkg of “homosexual behavr animals” as a sgle scientific subject might not make much sense.

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Several people I spoke to told me their own sexual inti eher helped spur or mata their tert the topic; Bce Bagemihl argued that gay and lbian people are “often better equipped to tect heterosexist bias when vtigatg the subject simply bee we enunter so equently our everyday liv. For whatever reason, we’re prone to seeg animals — pecially animals that appear to be gay — as reflectns, mols and foils of ourselv; we’re extraordarily, and sometim irratnally, vted a few months before I vised Kaena Pot, two pengus at the San Francis Zoo beme the latt a tradn of ptive same-sex pengu upl makg global headl.

” Acrdg to the Amerin Library Associatn, there have been more requts for librari to ban “And Tango Mak Three” every year than any other book the untry, three years animals do — what’s perceived to be “natural” — seems to rry a strange moral potency: ’s out there, irrefutably, as eher a validatn or a nunciatn of our own behavr, pendg on how you happen to feel about homosexualy and about nature.

” Robert Mugabe and the Nazis have employed the same reasong, as did the 1970s anti-gay csar Ana Bryant, who, Bce Bagemihl not, claimed an terview that “even barnyard animals don’t do what homosexuals do” and was unmoved when the terviewer poted out what actually happens barnyards.

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The book has also been ced a brief filed for the 2003 Supreme Court se that overturned a Texas state ban on sodomy and, siarly, a legislative bate on the floor of the Brish Esseks, director of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Project at the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, told me he has never rporated facts about animal behavr to a legal argument about the rights of human begs. At the same time, rearch terpreted — or, maybe more often, misterpreted — to be close to ppotg that naturalns a specific “gay gene” n make people on both sis anx a totally different 2007, for stance, the Universy of Illois at Chigo nroblogist David Featherstone and several lleagu, while searchg for new dg treatments for Lou Gehrig’s disease, happened upon a disvery: a specific prote mutatn the bra of male u fli ma the fli try to have sex wh other mal.

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