L's Lessons in Art Therapy

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Gay Animal Exhibit!

NPR covered a story about the world's first gay animal exhibit being held in a Norwegian museum. Check out :Funky Animals

I am very curious as to how one displays a gay animal exhibit. I'm pretty sure gay animals look the same as other animals and it is just their sexual behaviors that are different. So . . . is this a cute and furry animal porn exhibit? How do you display their gayness?

I also was interested in this news because a couple years ago I attended a lecture by Joan Roughgarden, a transexual biology professor at Stanford University. At that time she had just finished her book "Evolution's Rainbow," which among other things, argued that sex roles and practices in nature are not as well defined as we previously thought. She argued that most people fall somewhere between gay and straight and that very few people are totally one or the other. She called it a rainbow of sexuality. I still have it on my shelf and have not gotten to reading it yet, but this news about the Norwegian exhibit has reinitiated my curiosity.

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