Can Cats and Dogs be Gay? Let’s Ask Science

Contents:

• IS MY PET GAY?
• CATS ISN'T NEARLY AS HORNY AND GAY AS IT SHOULD BE
• T GAY
• GAY (ADJ.)
• PURR-I POST: ARE GAY CATS A THG?
• CAN DOGS AND CATS BE GAY? EXPLORG HOMOSEXUALY ANIMALS
• SOUTH PARK: THE FRACTURED BUT WHOLE – SVENGER HUNT: BIG GAY AL’S BIG GAY CATS
• ‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP ON DOJA CAT, SEASON 5 AND WILL’S SEXUALY: 'HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE’

IS MY PET GAY?

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However, when you look at the animal kgdom as a whole, pecially those crters who are ee to roam around whout the nf of a human home, the ia of dogs and ts exhibg homosexual behavr is somethg that serv closer attentn. But before we n terme whether pets n be gay, we first need to set the basele for what is nsired "gay" the animal kgdom.

CATS ISN'T NEARLY AS HORNY AND GAY AS IT SHOULD BE

Gay human begs are fed as beg sexually attracted to people of the same sex. While there's been much speculatn, there's no scientific evince of var animals, pecially hoe pets, beg gay or not. He ntu to say that beg exclively gay is "exceptnally rare" the animal kgdom.

So, if you're cur if your dog or t is gay, know that there is currently no evince to support this notn at least terms that humans are ed to fg homosexualy. Scientists often study two thgs when tryg to terme whether animals n be gay: exclivy and longevy. But a noticeable shift om normal proceedgs, te crime shows are now retroducg to a particularly adly protagonist: the gay serial killer.

T GAY

Ryan Murphy’s The Assassatn of Gianni Versace followed gay serial killer Andrew Cunanan as he pursued fame, love and money, killg anyone who crossed his path. Tentative queer readgs of murro protagonists films om s gone by, such as We Need to Talk About Kev, Kill Bill and several Bond villas who have flirted wh homoeroticism (the most brazen example beg Javier Barm Skyfall), have opened the door to the killers of today who are explicly and unavoidably gay.

The renewed tert gay killers n be seen as a ntuatn of pop culture’s preoccupatn wh “gay ath” – ’s jt now we’re dog the killg as well as beg killed. It’s an unniably more nuanced pictn than the film Basic Instct(1992), starrg Sharon Stone, which was strongly opposed by LGBTQ+ rights activists, who cricised the film's pictn of gay relatnships and the portrayal of a bisexual woman as a murro psychopath.

Films starrg gay hero particular – om LGBTQ+ rights pneer Harvey Milk (Milk), to mic in Elton John (Rocketman) and Brish breaker Alan Turg (The Imatn Game) – are now part of Hollywood’s filmic furnure. But Huw Lemmey, -host of Bad Gays – a podst about “evil/plited gays” throughout history – thks that the stori of gay men who have been nsired “bad” the past are jt as important. The men n teach how homosexualy and genr variance were once unrstood, but also how the morn ias around gay men me to be.

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Lemmey suggts that pop-culture’s sudn attractn to very “bad” killer gays might be a reactn to protagonists who are creasgly pestrian.

“As gay rights have advanced the past few s, a very particular type of ually whe gay male reprentatn of gays has been adopted and tegrated by a wir society, ” he says. ” The origs of the “gay killer” Seán McGovern, head of programmg at GAZE – Dubl’s Internatnal LGBT Film Ftival – tells dy100 that gay characters have historilly been fed a narrow set of trop. He mentns “the sad homosexual” or “the sissy” as the primary pictns of gay men pop culture.

PURR-I POST: ARE GAY CATS A THG?

(1980) is also a history of nspicuoly ignorg a character’s sexual inty, while portrayg them such a way that dienc are likely to assume they are gay - particularly if we aren’t supposed to like them. The nnectn between tras which are perceived as stereotypilly gay and the ia of “evil” n even be seen Disney films, where villas – such as Sr (The Ln Kg) and Prce John (Rob Hood) – are d as gay by bg “flamboyance” wh wickedns. “The protagonists are d homosexual killers, transgrsg agast all that is cent by killg for fun.

” Three s later, Amerin erotic crime thriller Cisg (1980), which followed a serial killer targetg gay men the leather scene the late 1970s, beme one of the earlit exampl of a gay killer who wasn’t jt d or ferred to be gay but actually explicly so. Cisgwas protted by gay advocy groups at the time, mostly on the grounds that was ma by straight people, for straight people and exploed the muny for prof.

” Cisg was released at a time when the “gay panic” fence – a legal strategy which a straight fendant n claim dimished rponsibily or nocence for vlent crim if they feared unwanted advanc om someone of the same genr – had been succsfully ed a strg of high-profile murrs of gay men the US. Soon after this, the threat of Aids further unrled the lk between gay men and ath (and as facto “killers”) public nscns. “A threat to ordary, law abidg heterosexual fai, the homosexual beme a danger far beyond what was known about the disease.

CAN DOGS AND CATS BE GAY? EXPLORG HOMOSEXUALY ANIMALS

In 2018, film cric Benjam Leelamented that so much of LGBTQ+ cema has an over-reliance on gay ath and “bleakns”. He’s not the only one to notice this, eher:wrg the Guardian 2013, Jam Rawson referred to this phenomenon as the “Sudn Gay Death Syndrome” a discsn over the endg of A Sgle unniable (problematic) hotns of gay killersQueer culture wrer Jack Kg thks that Ryan Murphy’s The Assassatn of Gianni Versace expos a long-held nflict between “wantg to be” and “wantg to fuck” gay villas.

He observ that the killers we see on-screen aren’t too far away om how many gay men live their liv. “You might argue that gay datg apps, which are unique to the gay muny (seeg as Tr prents a lot more barriers than Grdr, Hor and Scff etc, where random, private meetups are normalised) prent opportuny – we're livg through a time where sex, and people, are more accsible than ever. ”Sex / Crime, a new play that recently buted at London’s Soho Theatre, follows two gay men as they reimage the murrs mted by a gay serial killer.

SOUTH PARK: THE FRACTURED BUT WHOLE – SVENGER HUNT: BIG GAY AL’S BIG GAY CATS

He says: “When I told some gay men I was wrg a play about gay serial killers, lots of them said ‘that’s hot’”Gregory says the stori pictg gay killers and killgs – such as the hntg fale of Rsel T Davi drama Cucumber, where a closeted gay man beats a hook-up to ath wh a golf club – are so impactful bee they reflect the dangers of gay life. “Do we, as gay men, put ourselv to riskier suatns than our straight unterparts? Gay killers, on the other hand, aren’t afford the same luxury: they’re nearly always unbatably guilty.

Bisexualy (and ferred homosexualy) was ed by the prosecutn to nvce the jury – and Netflix viewers watchg years later – of his guilt. Time and time aga, queerns is synonymo wh viance and the se of a show like Amerin Crime Story’s Versace seri – which was wrten and directed by Gleecreator Ryan Murphy (who intifi as a gay man), and based on a te story – Kg thks that Murphy don’t monise his murro protagonist. It seems that this show, which was brought to the screen by a gay man, had a much more trite approach to explorg any lks between the protagonist’s sexualy and his murro actns.

The latter is far more cintal, but still speaks to the heightened social prsure that gay men often feel. ”Why (straight) viewers love gay killersHeterosexual dienc will always have some sort of reactn – rangg om revulsn to fascatn and celebratn – to queer culture and sex.

‘STRANGER THGS’ STAR NOAH SCHNAPP ON DOJA CAT, SEASON 5 AND WILL’S SEXUALY: 'HE IS GAY AND HE DO LOVE MIKE’

But we know that there’s a long, ugly history of queer sexualy, particularly gay male stori, beg sensatnalised the prs.

This is still gog on: jt look at gay gby star Gareth Thomas’s cisn to e out as HIV posive last year after his parents were allegedly door-stepped by a tabloid newspaper. WrerJason Okundaye also noted that the onle disurse surroundg YouTuber Jam Charl’s very public 2019 fall-out wh fluencer Tati Wtbrook often veered to homophobia, tappg to the long history of pictg gay men as sexual predators.

The recent reportg of Normawati Saga – who was sentenced to life prison this year after beg found guilty of rapg 48 men Manchter – tells that gay men mtg the most reprehensible crim driv horrified fascatn (and views) like few other stori.