“The Normalization of Queer Theory,” Journal of Homosexuality, 2003. David Halperin. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Halperin/publication/8980528_The_Normalization_of_Queer_Theory/links/5652972108aeafc2aabac0ce/The-Normalization-of-Queer-Theory.pdf?origin=publication_detail

From ’Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War’

[I am afraid that it is too late for the leftists in the West to express any solidarity with the Syrians in their extremely hard struggle. What I always found astonishing in this regard is that mainstream Western leftists know almost nothing about Syria, its people, its political economy, its contemporary history. Rarely have I found a useful piece of information or a genuinely creative idea in their analyses. My impression about this curious situation is that they simply don not see us; it is not about us at all. Syria is only an additional occasion for their old anti-imperialist tirades, never the living subject of the debate… We, rank-and-file Syrians, refugees, women, students, intellectuals, human rights activists, political prisoners… do not exist… But honestly I’ve failed to discern who is right and who is left in the West from a leftist Syrian point of view… Before helping Syrians or showing solidarity with Syrians, the mainstream Western left needs to help themselves.]

                               The two penguins have started placing stones at the feet of parents before waddling away with their eggs, in a bid to hide their theft.

But the deception has been noticed by other penguins at the zoo, who have ostracised the gay couple from their group. Now keepers have decided to segregate the pair of three-year-old male birds to avoid disrupting the rest of the community during the hatching season.

A keeper at Polar Land in Harbin, north east China explained that the gay couple had the natural urge to become fathers, despite their sexuality.

“One of the responsibilities of being a male adult is looking after the eggs. Despite this being a biological impossibility for this couple, the natural desire is still there,” a keeper told the Austrian Times newspaper.

“It’s not discrimination. We have to fence them separately, otherwise the whole group will be disturbed during hatching time,” he added.

There are numerous examples of homosexuality in the animal kingdom, but gay penguins have captured the public’s attention more than any other species.

A German zoo provoked outrage from gay lobby groups after attempting to mate a group of gay male penguins with Swedish female birds who were flown in especially to seduce them. But the project was abandoned after the males refused to be “turned”, showing no interest in their would-be mates.