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How Queer Is The Animal Kingdom? with Eliot Schrefer

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Do They Fall in Love With Each Other?

In insect it's hard because we don't really have access to the way t at their minds work. Soi right, it is entirely possible. There was a sheep researcher in the 19 sixties named valerius gest who was the expert o horned sheep. He discovered basically, from the age of, you know, birth until eight or nine, that sheep live in homosexual societies and have tons of sex. But he resisted publishing on those findings because he couldn't conceive of these magnificent beasts as queers. And this is very much like the way talked about queerness in the sixties.

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