Nature is SO Gay
When Canadaland commissioned its new series \u201cA Field Guide to Gay Animals\u201d (listen to it here), the topic wasn\u2019t really in the news. But since then, it\u2019s started to take the world by storm. From rage on the extreme right, a documentary series on Peacock, to the first photos of humpback whale sex being male-male.
And the relevance is more important than ever, legislation across Canada and the United States regularly denies queer rights, sometimes based on old-school notions that sex is about reproduction and the animal kingdom proves it. Except it doesn\u2019t\u2026 25 years ago, one Canadian scientist wrote a book that detailed the history and science of gay animals: Biological Exuberance.
Today, podcast hosts Owen Ever and Laine Kaplan Levenson join Jesse to talk about the wonderful world of gay animals.
Host: Jesse Brown
Credits: Tristan Capacchione (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)
Additional music by Audio Network
Further reading:
- Biological Exuberance, by Bruce Bagemihl \u2014 Macmillan Publishers
- Humpback sex photographed for first time \u2013 and both whales were male \u2014 The Guardian
- Peacock\u2019s \u2018Queer Planet\u2019 features lion \u2018bromances,\u2019 pansexual monkeys and more \u2014 NBC
- A Field Guide to Gay Animals \u2014 Canadaland
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