{"id":4403,"date":"2010-03-31T19:43:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T19:43:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-31T19:43:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T19:43:58","slug":"nytimes-com-asks-can-animals-be-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2010\/03\/nytimes-com-asks-can-animals-be-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes.com asks:  &#8216;Can animals be gay?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/uncategorized\/gay-animals-loving-each-other-in-the-open-norway-offers-a-museum-with-51-species-of-homosexual-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\">overwhelming evidence supporting existence of gay animals<\/a>, NYTimes.com shines light on people who believe it&#8217;s impossible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/04\/magazine\/04animals-t.html?pagewanted=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\" target=\"_blank\"><cite><strong>NYTimes.com<\/cite><\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is still an overall presumption of heterosexuality,\u201d the biologist Bruce Bagemihl told me. \u201cIndividuals, populations or species are considered to be entirely heterosexual until proven otherwise.\u201d While this may sound like a reasonable starting point, Bagemihl calls it a \u201cheterosexist bias\u201d and has shown it to be a significant roadblock to understanding the diversity of what animals actually do. In 1999, Baghemihl published \u201cBiological Exuberance,\u201d a book that pulled together a colossal amount of previous piecemeal research and showed how biologists\u2019 biases had marginalized animal homosexuality for the last 150 years \u2014 sometimes innocently enough, sometimes in an eruption of anthropomorphic disgust. Courtship behaviors between two animals of the same sex were persistently described in the literature as \u201cmock\u201d or \u201cpseudo\u201d courtship \u2014 or just \u201cpractice.\u201d Homosexual sex between ostriches was interpreted by one scientist as \u201ca nuisance\u201d that \u201cgoes on and on.\u201d One man, studying Mazarine Blue butterflies in Morocco in 1987, regretted having to report \u201cthe lurid details of declining moral standards and of horrific sexual offenses\u201d which are \u201call too often packed\u201d into national newspapers. And a bighorn-sheep biologist confessed in his memoir, \u201cI still cringe at the memory of seeing old D-ram mount S-ram repeatedly.\u201d To think, he wrote, \u201cof those magnificent beasts as \u2018queers\u2019 \u2014 Oh, God!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/04\/magazine\/04animals-t.html?pagewanted=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Read more at <cite><strong>NYTimes.com<\/cite><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite overwhelming evidence supporting existence of gay animals, NYTimes.com shines light on people who believe it&#8217;s impossible. 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