The Gay Life Of Animals
Elliot (Ellen) Page has made a documentary called Second Nature: Gender and Sexuality in the Animal World – SugarTits and I watched (the preview) so you don’t have to. The premise is that homosexual behavior in nature is one of the best kept secrets and it’s absolutely everywhere — dolphins, penguins, black swans, and apparently many waterfowl are very, very gay.
The documentary follows transgender evolutionary biologist Dr Joan Roughgarden as she/he meets groundbreaking scientists exploring the 1500 plus animal species who engage in same sex sexual behavior, change sex, form matriarchies and more.
Elliot told People magazine the whole thing is about feeling less alone as a queer — which is fine, but does require making a documentary about animals butt shagging each other to achieve. The gender-bender fish argument makes an appearance, we discuss female coded seahorses and the praying mantis makes a terrifying cameo.
The director grew up in Texas in the 1900s and was told queerness is unnatural, which apparently took 11 years and a full length documentary about animals buttf**ing each other to process. Here’s more from Bearing.
