Yterday, The New York Tim Magaze ran a lengthy ver story explorg the qutn Can Animals Be Gay? On glimpsg this headle, my first rponse was, Hell yeah, gurrrl. One loop around the block Chelsea wh my bt iend’s adorable pbull/boxer mix, Wally, will reveal that a dog is probably the send gayt accsory that a du n attach to a leash. But as I started readg the article, I realized that they weren’t talkg about “gay” as an adjective but as a noun. I was nonted wh the same misunrstandg a few years back when I started Stick Shift, my gay-r blog here at Vany Fair, and someone high up the Gay Car Communy (y, such a thg exists) took me to task, statg that “Cars aren’t gay; their owners are.” To which I rpond, “Cool. But someone might want to tell that to the Honda Element.”
Contents:
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
- 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
- GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
- MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE
- THE REAL QUTN: COULD ANIMALS BE ANY MORE GAY?BY BRETT BERKAPRIL 5, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEYTERDAY, THE NEW YORK TIM MAGAZE RAN A LENGTHY VER STORY EXPLORG THE QUTN CAN ANIMALS BE GAY? ON GLIMPSG THIS HEADLE, MY FIRST RPONSE WAS, HELL YEAH, GURRRL. ONE LOOP AROUND THE BLOCK CHELSEA WH MY BT IEND’S ADORABLE PBULL/BOXER MIX, WALLY, WILL REVEAL THAT A DOG IS PROBABLY THE SEND GAYT ACCSORY THAT A DU N ATTACH TO A LEASH. BUT AS I STARTED READG THE ARTICLE, I REALIZED THAT THEY WEREN’T TALKG ABOUT “GAY” AS AN ADJECTIVE BUT AS A NOUN. I WAS NONTED WH THE SAME MISUNRSTANDG A FEW YEARS BACK WHEN I STARTED STICK SHIFT, MY GAY-R BLOG HERE AT VANY FAIR, AND SOMEONE HIGH UP THE GAY CAR COMMUNY (Y, SUCH A THG EXISTS) TOOK ME TO TASK, STATG THAT “CARS AREN’T GAY; THEIR OWNERS ARE.” TO WHICH I RPOND, “COOL. BUT SOMEONE MIGHT WANT TO TELL THAT TO THE HONDA ELEMENT.”THEY ALSO MIGHT WANT TO TELL TO THE APPROXIMATELY 75 PERCENT OF MY GAY AND LBIAN IENDS WHO SCRIBE THEIR PETS AS HOMOSEXUAL. THIS LABEL IS UALLY BASED ON OBSERVATN OF SPEC, BUT NSISTENT, BEHAVRAL EVINCE LIKE PREENG, RG TOO MUCH (OR TOO LTLE) ABOUT THEIR WEIGHT, A LOVE OF SHMERE, OR AN URGENT NEED TO NSTANTLY MOUNT RANDOM SAME-GENRED MAT. IN THE PAST, I’VE WRTEN THE BEHAVRS OFF AS LEARNED—IF YOUR PET SE YOU PREENG, LOVG SHMERE, AND NSTANTLY MOUNTG RANDOM SAME-GENRED MAT, WOULDN’T HE MONKEY-SEE-MONKEY-DO THE SAME? EHER THAT OR THE RULT OF WHAT SOCLOGISTS LL “SUATNAL HOMOSEXUALY,” THE KD THAT VELOPS CLOSED, SGLE-GENRED SYSTEMS LIKE PRISON, OR BOY SUT OVERNIGHTS. BUT THIS DIDN’T STOP MY BOYIEND, TAL, AND I OM HATCHG A PLAN TO ANCHISE A NATNWI CHA OF BOUTIQUE PET STOR LLED GAY PETS FOR GAY PEOPLE. WE FIGURED IF WE JT LOCKED A BUNCH OF SAME-SEX DOGS THE STORE FOR A WEEK OR TWO THEY’D IMMEDIATELY GO ALL EATON (OR BARNARD) ON EACH OTHER, AND WE’D BE ROLLG FURRY PK DOLLARS.FORTUNATELY, THE TIM ARTICLE IS A B MORE SCHOLARLY S APPROACH, ANALYZG HOW WE MANAGE TO ANTHROPOMORPHIZE THE BEHAVR OF ANIMALS TO SERVE AS SUBSTANTIATN OF THE “NATURAL” BASIS FOR WHATEVER SILLY LTLE HUMAN AGENDA WE’RE TRYG TO PEDDLE. I FOUND STRANGE THAT THE PIECE DID SO WHOUT REFERENCG THE SEMAL WORKS OF DONNA HARAWAY, WHOSE FASCATG FEMIST TAKE ON PRIMATE SCIENCE BLEW ME AWAY LLEGE, AND SEEMS TO BE ABOUT JT THIS. BUT MAYBE THAT’S BEE S FAL ANSWER TO THE TLE’S QUTN IS, LIKE PRETTY MUCH EVERY SGLE ARTICLE EVER PUBLISHED THE TIM MAGAZE, A ROUNDGLY MEASURED “MAYBE.” DPE THE ENDLS CATNS OF THGS LIKE ADOLCENT MALE DOLPHS PLAYFULLY PERATG EACH OTHER’S BLOWHOL, AND LONG-TERM FEMALE ALBATROSS PAIRS WORKG TOGETHER TO CUBATE AN EGG, I SUPPOSE THIS IS ONLY PROPER. AFTER ALL, AS THE REPORTER F , “GAY” ISN’T JT A BEHAVR, ’S A LIFTYLE. AND ANIMALS—OR AT LEAST WILD ANIMALS—DON’T HAVE LIFTYL. (THOUGH MY IENDS’ PETS CLEARLY DO.) IT REMD ME OF THE STANDARD ANSWER THE FOLKS AT SAME WORKSHOP ED TO GIVE WHEN PEOPLE WOULD NONT THEM ABOUT THE SEXUALY OF A CERTA PAIR OF MALE ROOMMAT. “BERT AND ERNIE DO NOT PORTRAY A GAY UPLE AND THERE ARE NO PLANS FOR THEM TO DO SO THE FUTURE. THEY ARE PUPPETS, NOT HUMANS.”BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEBRETT BERK
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
For those who are still the dark as to what all those labels for var typ of gay mal actually signify, this lk generoly... * animal vs gay *
Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia. 'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.
Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". *Note: We tentnally do not e terms such as “heterosexual” or “homosexual” to prevent any nflatn between human sexualy and nonhuman animal sexual behavrs.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
For those who are still the dark as to what all those labels for var typ of gay mal actually signify, this lk generoly breaks down laymen’s terms.
Bears are chubby, hairy, mascule gay mal who like beer and flannel shirts–but that’s jt the superficial fn.
As long as we’re dulgg gay nature lgo, though, I wonr what a Wolvere is.
GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.
The SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium scrib them as a "same sex pengu power uple" who beme a symbol of Atralia's gay rights movement when they got together 2018. Photo: Julia Zavalisha (Shutterstock)There are still people out there who thk that beg gay is “unnatural, ” but they uldn’t be more wrong. It’s been observed more than 1, 500 animal speci, om sects and other vertebrat, right up the evolutnary ladr to primat and the most part, we’re not sure why—what evolutnary advantage do homosexual uplg provi to dolphs (other than happier dolphs)?
MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE
What’s really unnatural is that so many people still assume animals adhere to the “moral” of a small number of humans—so if you happen to n to anyone like that, pot them to this list of the 11 most gay animals on Sergey Uryadnikov (Shutterstock)Bonobos, a speci of great ap native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are the hippi of the animal kgdom.
They share about 99% of their DNA wh humans, and they’re gay as hell. Homosexual sex has been observed a number of dolph speci, but has been studied most thoroughly bottlenose dolphs. Photo: JMx Imag (Shutterstock)Giraffe sex is more gay than straight.
In parison, female giraff only get by wh other femal about 1% of the Jaroslav Seker (Shutterstock)Both male and female lns have been observed exhibg homosexual behavr.
THE REAL QUTN: COULD ANIMALS BE ANY MORE GAY?BY BRETT BERKAPRIL 5, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEYTERDAY, THE NEW YORK TIM MAGAZE RAN A LENGTHY VER STORY EXPLORG THE QUTN CAN ANIMALS BE GAY? ON GLIMPSG THIS HEADLE, MY FIRST RPONSE WAS, HELL YEAH, GURRRL. ONE LOOP AROUND THE BLOCK CHELSEA WH MY BT IEND’S ADORABLE PBULL/BOXER MIX, WALLY, WILL REVEAL THAT A DOG IS PROBABLY THE SEND GAYT ACCSORY THAT A DU N ATTACH TO A LEASH. BUT AS I STARTED READG THE ARTICLE, I REALIZED THAT THEY WEREN’T TALKG ABOUT “GAY” AS AN ADJECTIVE BUT AS A NOUN. I WAS NONTED WH THE SAME MISUNRSTANDG A FEW YEARS BACK WHEN I STARTED STICK SHIFT, MY GAY-R BLOG HERE AT VANY FAIR, AND SOMEONE HIGH UP THE GAY CAR COMMUNY (Y, SUCH A THG EXISTS) TOOK ME TO TASK, STATG THAT “CARS AREN’T GAY; THEIR OWNERS ARE.” TO WHICH I RPOND, “COOL. BUT SOMEONE MIGHT WANT TO TELL THAT TO THE HONDA ELEMENT.”THEY ALSO MIGHT WANT TO TELL TO THE APPROXIMATELY 75 PERCENT OF MY GAY AND LBIAN IENDS WHO SCRIBE THEIR PETS AS HOMOSEXUAL. THIS LABEL IS UALLY BASED ON OBSERVATN OF SPEC, BUT NSISTENT, BEHAVRAL EVINCE LIKE PREENG, RG TOO MUCH (OR TOO LTLE) ABOUT THEIR WEIGHT, A LOVE OF SHMERE, OR AN URGENT NEED TO NSTANTLY MOUNT RANDOM SAME-GENRED MAT. IN THE PAST, I’VE WRTEN THE BEHAVRS OFF AS LEARNED—IF YOUR PET SE YOU PREENG, LOVG SHMERE, AND NSTANTLY MOUNTG RANDOM SAME-GENRED MAT, WOULDN’T HE MONKEY-SEE-MONKEY-DO THE SAME? EHER THAT OR THE RULT OF WHAT SOCLOGISTS LL “SUATNAL HOMOSEXUALY,” THE KD THAT VELOPS CLOSED, SGLE-GENRED SYSTEMS LIKE PRISON, OR BOY SUT OVERNIGHTS. BUT THIS DIDN’T STOP MY BOYIEND, TAL, AND I OM HATCHG A PLAN TO ANCHISE A NATNWI CHA OF BOUTIQUE PET STOR LLED GAY PETS FOR GAY PEOPLE. WE FIGURED IF WE JT LOCKED A BUNCH OF SAME-SEX DOGS THE STORE FOR A WEEK OR TWO THEY’D IMMEDIATELY GO ALL EATON (OR BARNARD) ON EACH OTHER, AND WE’D BE ROLLG FURRY PK DOLLARS.FORTUNATELY, THE TIM ARTICLE IS A B MORE SCHOLARLY S APPROACH, ANALYZG HOW WE MANAGE TO ANTHROPOMORPHIZE THE BEHAVR OF ANIMALS TO SERVE AS SUBSTANTIATN OF THE “NATURAL” BASIS FOR WHATEVER SILLY LTLE HUMAN AGENDA WE’RE TRYG TO PEDDLE. I FOUND STRANGE THAT THE PIECE DID SO WHOUT REFERENCG THE SEMAL WORKS OF DONNA HARAWAY, WHOSE FASCATG FEMIST TAKE ON PRIMATE SCIENCE BLEW ME AWAY LLEGE, AND SEEMS TO BE ABOUT JT THIS. BUT MAYBE THAT’S BEE S FAL ANSWER TO THE TLE’S QUTN IS, LIKE PRETTY MUCH EVERY SGLE ARTICLE EVER PUBLISHED THE TIM MAGAZE, A ROUNDGLY MEASURED “MAYBE.” DPE THE ENDLS CATNS OF THGS LIKE ADOLCENT MALE DOLPHS PLAYFULLY PERATG EACH OTHER’S BLOWHOL, AND LONG-TERM FEMALE ALBATROSS PAIRS WORKG TOGETHER TO CUBATE AN EGG, I SUPPOSE THIS IS ONLY PROPER. AFTER ALL, AS THE REPORTER F , “GAY” ISN’T JT A BEHAVR, ’S A LIFTYLE. AND ANIMALS—OR AT LEAST WILD ANIMALS—DON’T HAVE LIFTYL. (THOUGH MY IENDS’ PETS CLEARLY DO.) IT REMD ME OF THE STANDARD ANSWER THE FOLKS AT SAME WORKSHOP ED TO GIVE WHEN PEOPLE WOULD NONT THEM ABOUT THE SEXUALY OF A CERTA PAIR OF MALE ROOMMAT. “BERT AND ERNIE DO NOT PORTRAY A GAY UPLE AND THERE ARE NO PLANS FOR THEM TO DO SO THE FUTURE. THEY ARE PUPPETS, NOT HUMANS.”BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVJOE MANGANIELLO DEBUTS DIVORCE INKBY KASE WICKMANMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEBRETT BERK
The olst evince of a (maybe) gay man dat back to 2900 to 2500 years ago.