# Gay Love In The Animal Kingdom **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-love-in-the-animal-kingdom/386706 "2007-01-04T17:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-love-in-the-animal-kingdom/386706/1 "2007-01-04T17:24:46Z")
Despite hundreds and hundreds of years of furious denial, a new [Museum exhibit in Norway](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-2527347,00.html) carefully and scientifically puts to rest forever the assertion that homosexual behaviors are limited to human beings. It appears to be a very well-researched and excellently presented exhibit. What a tragedy that there isn’t a snowball’s chance in…well, in Hell that this show could ever tour the United States of America. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-love-in-the-animal-kingdom/386706/2 "2007-01-04T17:27:17Z")
( By “hundreds and hundreds of years”, I refer to the cite given in the article of the Church Council of Nablus in 1120 A.D. To me, that’s long ago enough. ) ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-love-in-the-animal-kingdom/386706/3 "2007-01-04T17:33:14Z")
Gay whales “sparring with giant penises”??? Man, the gay whales get to have _all_ the fun. … until their giant penises are cut off, dried, and mounted in an Oslo museum, I guess. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-love-in-the-animal-kingdom/386706/4 "2007-01-04T23:52:13Z")
“The exhibition then uses macaques and apes to introduce the unsuspecting visitor to the practice of ‘diddling’, in which the primates gently hold each other’s scrotums. It is a way of establishing trust, Brockman suggests. Certainly you would not allow yourself to be diddled by someone you did not trust.” Ya think? I love the title of the article. Reminded me of Noel Coward’s parody of the Cole Porter tune. Coward’s version: “Birds do it, bees do it, nice young men who sell antiques do it…” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-love-in-the-animal-kingdom/386706/5 "2007-01-05T01:48:53Z")
[QUOTE=Lightray] Gay whales “sparring with giant penises”??? Man, the gay whales get to have _all_ the fun. … until their giant penises are cut off, dried, and mounted in an Oslo museum, I guess. :dubious: [/QUOTE] You’ll have to pry them out of their cold, dead flippers. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-love-in-the-animal-kingdom/386706/6 "2007-01-05T02:01:07Z")
> [@](#): > > …Europe embraces gay marriage, and leading homosexuals such as Martina Navratilova denounce scientists in Oregon for attempting to make gay sheep straight… Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-love-in-the-animal-kingdom/386706/7 "2007-01-05T02:31:45Z")
“Leading homosexuals?” Like… she’s really, really good at it? Lucky for her girlfriend, I guess, but I don’t see what that has to do with her opinion about gay sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-love-in-the-animal-kingdom/386706/8 "2007-01-05T03:03:30Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] You’ll have to pry them out of their cold, dead flippers. [/QUOTE] Or possibly, out of the nearest blowhole. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gay-love-in-the-animal-kingdom/386706/9 "2007-01-05T04:06:37Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] “Leading homosexuals?” Like… she’s really, really good at it? Lucky for her girlfriend, I guess, but I don’t see what that has to do with her opinion about gay sheep. [/QUOTE] I thought the same thing. What exactly makes one a “leading homosexual?” “Leading” and “well known” aren’t necessarily synonyms.