Following up the gay mallards, can we have lesbian gulls for pride?
(I'm sorry the lack of sexual plumage dimorphism makes this more difficult)
A repost of a popular post from last year!!
THIS TOO IS YURI?!?!?!
FLY HIIIIGGGHHHH LESBIAN SEAGULLS!!!
Radio Lab: The Seagulls
In the 1970s, as LGBTQ+ people in the United States faced conservatives whose top argument was that homosexuality is “unnatural,” a pair of young scientists discovered on a tiny island off the coast of California a colony of seagulls that included… a significant number of female homosexual couples making nests and raising chicks together. The article that followed upended the culture’s understanding of what’s natural and took the discourse on homosexuality in a whole new direction. In this episode, our co-Host Lulu Miller grapples with the impact of this and several other studies about animal queerness on her life as a queer person. Special thanks to the History is Gay Posdcast
Listen here: The Seagulls
The gulls are alright: How a lesbian seagull discovery shook up 1970s conservatives
Lifting the lid on gay natural history | Natural History Museum
