Petter Bøckman, academic adviser for the Against Nature? exhibit, stated 'any researchers have described homosexuality as something altogether different from sex.
He devotes three chapters, 'Two Hundred Years at Looking at Homosexual Wildlife', 'Explaining (Away) Animal Homosexuality', and 'Not For Breeding Only' in his 1999 book Biological Exuberance to the 'documentation of systematic prejudices' where he notes 'the present ignorance of biology lies precisely in its single-minded attempt to find reproductive (or other) 'explanations' for homosexuality, transgender, and non-procreative and alternative heterosexualities. Observed has been one or more of the following kinds: sexual behavior, courtship, affection, pair bonding, or parenting.īruce Bagemihl writes that the presence of same-sex sexual behavior was not officially observed on a large scale until the 1990s due to possible observer bias caused by social attitudes towards LGBT people, which made homosexuality in animals a taboo subject. įor these mammals, there is documented evidence of gay behavior, which is also referred to as homosexual behavior as an example of how homophobia is woven into the very fabric of our language. Giraffes in Kenya giraffes have been called 'especially gay' for often engaging in male-male sexual behavior more than male-female ( heterosexual) sex.
