Are seahorses gay
7 Facts About Diversity, Self-acceptance & Queerness in the Ocean
Pride Month is in June, and to observe diversity and queerness, we are sharing some fabulous facts about the rainbow diversity found in our oceans.
Of course, things prefer sexuality, gender and relationships are human concepts - just like hate, prejudice, and LGBTQ+ phobia, which you won't find any of in the animal kingdom.
Most seahorses are bisexual
Seahorses already defy gender roles with the males bearing eggs and giving birth. However, it also turns out that almost all seahorses are bisexual, forming relationships with both male and female partners.
Clownfish modify gender to become female
The women rule the society in the clownfish society. Clownfish live in miniature groups with a strict hierarchy consisting of one dominant female and a small number of males. Should the boss female disappear, the most high-ranking male changes his gender to become the dominant female and in ask for of the group.
Lesbian albatrosses are committed partners and parents
In some colonies of albatrosses, as many as a third of the nesting pairs raising adolescent are both females. Although they (ahem!) "make use" of a male to get pregna
Promiscuous and bisexual the ‘faithful’ seahorse has a covert sex life
INTRODUCTION
Fortunately for LGTB collective, greater and greater countries and societies understood that homosexuality is something innate and that it is not an illness. Anyway, despite this is genuine, it is also true that it is necessary to work hard to achieve equality on lesbian, gay, transexual and bisexual rights and to eradicate the false doctrine that homosexuality is unnatural. In the next weeks, in cities all over the world like Barcelona and Madrid will take place LGTB Movement parties. For this reason, this article hope to illustrate clear examples that homosexuality is not exclusive of human, but present in many animals. So, there is no reason to proceed believing in the argument that homosexuality is unnatural!
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Homosexuality is a truth present in many animal species. In fact, it has been documented in 1,500 of the more than 1 million described animal species (Bagemihl, 1999). Without going any further, a learning of the California University demonstrated that in all the analysed species there were some individuals with homosexual traits or behaviours, including worms, flies, birds, dolphins and chimpanzees,
Seahorse on the Silver Screen
The Innateness Lab’s seahorses made their movie debut in the world premiere of SEAHORSE at the Tribeca Film Festival.
SEAHORSE is a documentary by filmmaker Jeanie Finlay that follows the story of Freddy McConnell, a transgender gentleman who dreams of raising a child in his hometown of Deal, England.
The Guardian writes of the film, “Director Jeanie Finlay extends sincere empathy towards someone who won’t let gender get in the way of heeding the basic human impulse to create and nurture modern life. That’s how Finlay wants us to see McConnell’s journey to fatherhood—a phenomenon as instinctive as the reproduction of the seahorse, in which male specimens carry and spawn their hold young.”
The Nature Lab’s involvement came through Stewart Copeland [MFA D+M ‘19], a Graduate Assistant at the time and a friend and collaborator of Finlay’s for over 10 years (Stewart was the Cinematographer and Associate Producer on Finlay’s previous motion picture, ORION: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING). When Finlay mentioned she needed footage of seahorses, Stewart immediately thought of the five specimens the Nature Lab had recently collected from Narragansett Bay. With descriptions of t