Jun 9, 2011

The Truth About Gay Animals (Helen Littleboy, 2002)


American comedian Scott Capurro embarks on a bizarre odyssey to track down the truth about gay animals. Why would animals be gay? How do you define gay sexual behaviour and how do you spot it in animals?



This wry documentary asks if there has been a conspiracy to keep the truth about gay animals secret. From swans engaging in threesomes to chimpanzees that swing both ways, Scott travels across the globe meeting en-route the college professor funded by the US government to research the genetic make up of gay sheep, and a recently divorced woman whose husband was so convinced his dog was gay he allegedly beat him to death with a vacuum cleaner.

Channel 4`s director of programmes, Tim Gardam, who commissioned the show, said: “It’s a funny ‘11 O`Clock Show’.” He added that the animals in the show were “amusing and quite sweet”.

A recent 10 year study by Seattle biologist Dr. Bruce Bagemih concluded that nearly 300 species of birds and mammals have been shown to exhibit a varied range of homosexual activity, that is as natural in the animal kingdom as heterosexuality. Bagemih dismisses the ‘excuse’ that the animals and birds are simply mistaken when they take a mate or, as it is for many humans, merely a source of fun.

The observations appear to point to the fact that the animals are showing individual choices, be they heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual.

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  1. Zanimljivo, zabavno ali i vrlo ozbiljno-jos jedna  od onih stvari koju vecina negira i zabranjuje jer im je tako jadnicima lakse...

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