Happy pride from the Animal Kingdom

With the rise of social media, we are getting more open-minded regarding existing taboos, but also more polarized at the same time. Although the acceptance for the queer community has rightly grown, but so has the intensity of bullying from antagonists. The idea that gender non-conforming identities and homosexual conducts are only social constructs influenced by woke ideologies is somewhat misleading. My discussion will only be limited to homosexual behavior in animals and not on any other standpoint.

Homosexual behaviors have been prevalent in humans for centuries. They are so prevalent in nature that it makes us question that why, even after 2000 years of human cavillation, a lot of people still have uncivilized positions on this subject. Karl-Maria Kertbeny, coined the terms homosexual and heterosexual only in 1869 to replace the pejorative labels that existed. Although the word "homo" means humans, we use it for animals as well.

Homosexuality in animals

Penguins

Penguins have relationships that are as complicated as their human counterparts. They form long-term committed partnerships, they have breakups, they lose appetite when a partnership ends, they have love triangles, they have bisexual contacts, etc. In 2004, two male chinstrap penguins named Silo and Roy at the Central Park Zoo were seen hatching a "pretend" egg together that was a rock before scientists gave them an actual egg that they hatched successfully. In 2005, the Bremerhaven Zoo in Germany launched a breeding program to cater to the declining population of Humboldt penguins. Homosexual penguins made the breeding program almost impossible because the male-male ties were too strong to be broken up by a female.

Rhesus Monkeys

They are known to have one of the most strict hierarchies among primates, but during the breeding season, these hierarchies seem to have no meaning. The breading season begins with females warming up with homosexual conduct. They literally jump on top of each other for months. Even the lowest-ranking female can be seen associating with alpha females, which otherwise would be a serious offense. Even males start the breeding season by comforting and grooming other males and completely ignoring nearby females.

Bonobos

Bonobos are the most rumpy pumpy apes. They are genetically as close to us as chimpanzees. That hardly anyone knows their name can be blamed on establishmentarian views held in the past. EVERY bonobo is bisexual and three quarter of all their liaisons have nothing to do with reproduction. Just as humans shake hands while greeting each other, bonobos have a quick fifteen-second "genital handshake".

Animals are often considered "breeding machines" whose only purpose on the planet is to leave progeny, but studies after studies have shown how much fun the animal kingdom is having. They nookie because they are attracted to each other or just want to have fun, not because they want to reproduce. Animal brains are far less developed to link coitus and reproduction, especially given that these two events occur so far away in time for animals to derive any logical conclusions. Sexual conduct did evolve for reproduction, but it is not its only function.

Unfortunately, there are no explicitly gay animals observed until now. Bisexuality is more prevalent in the animal kingdom than homosexuality. Ovis ariesis (a sheep) is only the second mammal which is exclusively homosexual. No evidence exists for penguins having an exclusive or even dominant orientation to their sex. Silo and Roy broke up after six years. Silo left Roy for a female.

Being a symbolic species with language comes with disadvantages as well. We have a habit of labeling everything. As heterosexual contacts were seen frequently, they were considered normal, and their opposite was consequently considered abnormal, as if there were no room for both. "Nature loves blending, but unfortunately we hate it. "