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A Field Guide to Gay Animals
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| Canada, Combined States | 42 MINUTESDocumentary, LGBTQIA+, Essence, Journalism
A Field Mentor to Gay Animals explores sexuality, gender, and joy in the animal society. Animal enthusiasts Owen Ever and Laine Kaplan-Levenson take you on a quest to see beyond the natural planet as we understand it and into the natural nature as it is: queer as fuck.
Cheeky and contemplative, curious and raunchy, Field Guide shows you the natural society, more exuberant, more joyful, and more gay than you could possibly imagine.
Cast & Credits
Project Creator
Katie Jane Fernelius, Nathan Harrison, Owen Ever, Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Canadaland
Producer
Katie Jane Fernelius, Nathan Harrison, Owen Ever, Laine Kaplan-Levenson, Aviva Lessard
Host
Owen Ever, Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Writer
Owen Ever, Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Sound Design
Tristan Capacchione
Executive Producer
Julie Shapiro
Mixing and Mastering
Tristan Capacchione
Additional Production
Aviva Lessard
Theme Music
“Wolves” by Hurray for the Riff Raff, courtesy of Nonesuch Records
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Scientists explore the evolution of animal homosexuality
Imperial researchers are using a new approach to understand why same-sex behaviour is so usual across the animal kingdom.
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In 1910, a team of scientists set off on the Terra Nova Expedition to explore Antarctica. Among them was George Murray Levick, a zoologist and photographer who would be the first researcher to study the world's largest Adélie penguin colony. He chronicled the animals' daily activities in great detail.
In his notebooks, he described their sexual behaviour, including sex between male birds. However, none of these notes would appear in Levick's published papers. Concerned by the graphic content, he only printed 100 copies of Sexual Habits of the Adélie Penguin to circulate privately. The last remaining imitate was recently unearthed providing valuable insights into animal homosexuality research.
But forays into animal homosexuality study long predate Levick, with observations published as far back as the 1700s and 1800s. More than 200 years later, study has moved past some of the taboos those e
Humans aren't the only ones having gay sex in the bushes.
Strap on your binoculars and lace up your boots: A Field Guide to Same-sex attracted Animals explores sexuality, gender, and happiness in the animal world.
Hosts Owen Ever and Laine Kaplan-Levenson take you on a quest to see beyond the natural world as we know it and into the natural world as it is: gay as f*ck.
Homosexuality has been documented in over 1,500 species of animals. From gay geese and bisexual bison to lesbian elephant like affairs and all-male, all-whale orgies, expressions of same-sex deed in the animal queendom are all around us.
Owen and Laine are your intrepid guides to investigate this variety of animal behaviours, exploring the depths of the ocean, the heart of the forest, and the bushes in your backyard, to dive deep into nuanced conversations about queerness in the animal world.
Cheeky and contemplative, curious and raunchy, Field Guide shows you the natural world is more exuberant, more joyful, and more gay than you could possibly imagine.
Official selection of the 2024 Tribeca Audio Festival.
A Field Instruction to Gay Animals is a Signal Award Gold winner in the Documentary category and a Silver winn
Can Animals Be Gay?
The Fresh York Times Magazine offered a photograph of bunnies on the cover of its Easter Sunday edition, but the paper was asking a rather extraordinary question: “Can animals be gay?”
“Various forms of homosexual sexual activity have been recorded in more than 450 different species of animals by now, from flamingos to bison to beetles to guppies to warthogs,” reported Jon Mooallem. Well, that’s a rather surprising statistic on many levels. It seems that researchers have been attempting to document these activities and to explain them. Thus far, there has been only a smattering of documentation and significant controversy over how to explain it.
Mooallem explains:
Within most species, homosexual sex has been documented only sporadically, and there appear to be few cases of individual animals who hire in it exclusively. For more than a century, this kind of observation was usually tacked onto scientific papers as a curiosity, if it was reported at all, and not pursued as a legitimate research subject. Biologists tried to explain away what they’d seen, or dismissed it as theoretically meaningless — an isolated glitch in an otherwis