Mm exhibn shows gay animal kgdom | WIRED

Contents:

• SWISS MM CELEBRAT GAY ANIMALS
• HOMOSEXUALY THE ANIMAL KGDOM
• GAY ANIMALS OUT OF THE CLOSET?
• MM EXHIBN SHOWS GAY ANIMAL KGDOM

SWISS MM CELEBRAT GAY ANIMALS

Displays range om blogil disveri to current bat on homosexualy, aimg to bridge the gap between nature and society. “The reasons for homosexual relatnships are not always clear, but we do know that they strengthen social bonds and n ntribute to group uny, ” Kopf said.

Nearly 70 untri ntue to crimalize same-sex relatnships humans, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Associatn, or ILGA. "I don't know of a sgle se of homosexual dividuals beg margalized or disadvantaged the animal world, " said the studi vertebrat and is employed at Bern's Natural History Mm as a specialist.

HOMOSEXUALY THE ANIMAL KGDOM

" The show highlights the diversy of genr and sexualy humans and other animals, and featur discsns on homosexualy and s blogil exhibn shows plenty of exampl of same-sex behavr found nature. "The reasons for homosexual relatnships are not always clear, but we do know that they strengthen social bonds and n ntribute to group uny, " he explaed.

The Natural History Mm Swzerland’s pal, Bern, is celebratg animal homosexualy the exhibn Queer – Diversy is our nature.

The long-nng exhibn, showg om April 2021 until March 2023, aims to normalise homosexualy by remdg that we’re not the only speci to be timate wh the same sex. For example, Atralian rearcher Krista Nicholson, Murdoch Universy, disvered groups of dolphs engagg soc-sexual homosexual behavr, “[cludg] mountg and genal ntact between dividuals, ” acrdg to Mandurah Mail. “The reasons for homosexual relatnships are not always clear, but we do know that they strengthen social bonds and n ntribute to group uny.

GAY ANIMALS OUT OF THE CLOSET?

Dpe how natural homosexualy is many animal speci, “sixty-ne UN member Stat ntue to crimalize nsensual same-sex activy, ” acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA). VAN ZANDBERGEN/LPIPeople n only make up their mds about whether such behavur is 'unnatural' if they know the current state of rearch on homosexualy nature, he sooner had the thory approved his proposal than church groups began to prott agast this e of public money. Söli foced the exhibn around 50 speci, out of the 500 or so which homosexual behavur has been well documented.

” The creators hope to “-mystify homosexualy among people” and bunk the belief that gay sex is a “crime agast nature. Lbian star, Rosie O’Donnell, mak a siar claim that “In every animal kgdom and every speci, 10 percent of the populatn is homosexual, ” and that’s “a fact of nature.

The argument is that sce animals engage homosexual behavr that is stctual, mt be natural for them and, nsequently, natural and moral for humans sce they are animals too. Neverthels, the teractn of other stcts (particularly domance) n rult behavr that appears to be homosexual. So we n’t fer homosexualy when a male chimpanzee mounts another male any more than we n fer sofaphilia when a dog mounts your uch.

MM EXHIBN SHOWS GAY ANIMAL KGDOM

A first-ever mm display, "Agast Nature?, " which opened last month at the Universy of Oslo's Natural History Mm Norway, prents 51 speci of animals exhibg homosexualy.

"Homosexualy has been observed more than 1, 500 speci, and the phenomenon has been well scribed for 500 of them, " said Petter Bockman, project ordator of the ia, however, is rarely discsed the scientific muny and is often dismissed as unnatural bee don't appear to benef the larger e of speci ntuatn. Conversely, some argue that homosexual sex uld have a bigger natural e than jt pure ecstasy: namely evolutnary benefs. "I've had primatologists offer to give me their data on homosexual behavr bee they didn't want to publish , " Wolfe said.

" was set up partly to mystify the argument that a homosexual way of livg nnot be accepted bee is agast the "laws of nature" n now be rejected scientifilly, said Geir Soli, project lear for the exhibn.