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Even the Birds and the Bees do it.

Sorry if this article seems a little too much. It was very hard to write simply because I’m straight and have very rarely had the privilege of writing about the gay community. Not that they ever need defending …..

“It’s a real disease, they should all be burned that way there’ll be no gays. Think about it, you get rid of the problem all at once”

When I heard that I decided I hated all homophobes, they’re a bunch of people who are either ignorant or just plain old idiots. I heard that from a friend not two weeks after he became a doctor, I was still a student. I also found out that a fair chunk of doctors don’t really try to understand people and would rather stick to learning things like the rate, rhythm and character of a pulse or how to describe a funny looking rash.

The statement not only showed a deep lack of empathy for his fellow brethren, its also shows a complete lack of understanding of our fundamental behaviour as species. For one thing it isn’t a disease nor is it a symptom of one. Homosexuality has been part of our innate behaviour as mammals since the dawn of time; there are infact over 1500 species that have displayed and documented homosexual behavior. Here’s a list stolen from wikipedia Show ▼

Birds

Acorn Woodpecker[18] Adelie Penguin[19] American Flamingo[20] American Herring Gull[21] Anna’s Hummingbird[22] Australian Shelduck[23] Aztec Parakeet[24] Bengalese Finch (Domestic)[25] Bank Swallow[26] Barn Owl[27] Bicolored Antbird[28] Black-billed Magpie[29] Black-crowned Night Heron[30] Black-headed Gull[31] Black-rumped Flameback[18] Black Stilt[32] Black Swan[16][33] Black-winged Stilt[32] Blue-backed Manakin[34] Blue-bellied Roller[35] Blue Tit[36] Blue-winged Teal[37] Brown-headed Cowbird[38] Budgerigar (Domestic)[39] Buff-breasted Sandpiper[40] Calfbird[41] California Gull[42] Canada Goose[43] Canary-winged Parakeet[24] Caspian Tern[44] Cattle Egret[45] Chaffinch[46] Chicken (Domestic)[47] Chilean Flamingo[20] Chiloe Wigeon[37] Chinstrap penguin[1] Cliff Swallow[26] Common Gull[42] Common Murre[48] Common Shelduck[23] Crane spp.[49] Dusky Moorhen[49] Eastern Bluebird[36] Egyptian Goose[23] Elegant Parrot[24] Emu[50] Eurasian Oystercatcher[51]

European Jay[29] European Shag[52] Galah[24] Gentoo Penguin[19] Golden Bishop Bird[53] Golden Plover[51] Gray-breasted Jay[29] Gray-capped Social Weaver[54] Gray Heron[45] Great Cormorant[52] Greater Bird of Paradise[55] Greater Flamingo[20] Greater Rhea[50] Green Sandpiper[56] Greenshank[57] Greylag Goose[58] Griffon Vulture[27] Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock[14][59] Guillemot[48] Hammerhead (also known as Hammerkop)[60] Herring Gull[21] Hoary-headed Grebe[61] Hooded Warbler[62] House Sparrow[38] Humboldt Penguin[19] Ivory Gull[63] Jackdaw[29] Kestrel[27] King Penguin[19] Kittiwake[64] Laughing Gull[65] Laysan Albatross[48] Lesser Flamingo[20] Lesser Scaup Duck[23] Little Blue Heron[45] Little Egret[45] Long-tailed Hermit Hummingbird[22] Lory spp.[24] Mallard[37] Masked Lovebird[24] Mealy Amazon Parrot[24] Mew Gull[42] Mexican Jay[66] Musk Duck[23] Mute Swan[67] Ocellated Antbird[28] Ocher-bellied Flycatcher[68] Orange Bishop Bird[69] Orange-fronted Parakeet[24]

Ornate Lorikeet[24] Ostrich[50] Peach-faced Lovebird[24] Pied Flycatcher[70] Pied Kingfisher[35] Pigeon (Domestic)[71] Powerful Owl[72] Purple Swamphen[49] Raggiana’s Bird of Paradise[73] Raven[29] Razorbill[48] Red-backed Shrike[36] Red Bishop Bird[74] Red-faced Lovebird[24] Redshank[75] Red-shouldered Widowbird[76] Regent Bowerbird[77] Ring-billed Gull[42] Ring Dove[78] Rock Dove[79] Roseate Tern[44] Rose-ringed Parakeet[24] Ruff[40] Ruffed Grouse[80] Sage Grouse[81] San Blas Jay[29] Sand Martin[26] Satin Bowerbird[82] Scarlet Ibis[20] Scottish Crossbill[46] Senegal Parrot[24] Sharp-tailed Sparrow[83] Silver Gull[21] Silvery Grebe[61] Snow Goose[43] Steller’s Sea Eagle[84] Superb Lyrebird[85] Swallow-tailed Manakin[34] Tasmanian Native Hen[49] Tree Swallow[86] Trumpeter Swan[87] Turkey (Domestic)[88] Victoria’s Riflebird[89] Wattled Starling[38] Western Gull[90] White-fronted Amazon Parrot[24] White Stork[91] Wood Duck[37] Yellow-backed Lorikeet[24] Yellow-rumped Cacique[92] Zebra Finch (Domestic)[93]

: List of birds displaying homosexual behavior

[edit] Selected birds from the full list

Chicken (Domestic)[29] Common Gull[30]

Emu[31] King Penguin[32]

[edit] Fish

Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus) leaping for a fly fisherman’s bait. Research going back to the 1950s has shown both male and female Graylings exhibit homosexual behavior.^[33]

• Amazon molly^[34]
• Blackstripe topminnow^[35]
• Bluegill Sunfish^[36]
• Char^[37]
• Grayling^[33]
• European Bitterling^[38]
• Green swordtail^[39]
• Guiana leaffish^[40]
• Houting Whitefish^[41]
• Jewel Fish^[42]
• Least Darter (Microperca punctulata)^[43]
• Mouthbreeding Fish sp.^[44]
• Salmon spp.^[45]
• Southern platyfish^[46]
• Ten-spined stickleback^[47]
• Three-spined stickleback^[47]

[edit] Reptiles

Anole sp.[48] Bearded Dragon[49] Broad-headed Skink[50] Checkered Whiptail Lizard[49] Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail Lizard[49] Common Ameiva[49] Common Garter Snake[51] Cuban Green Anole[48] Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizard[49] Desert Tortoise[52] Fence Lizard[49] Five-lined Skink[50] Gopher (Pine) Snake[53] Green Anole[48] Inagua Curlytail Lizard[49]

Jamaican Giant Anole[48] Laredo Striped Whiptail Lizard[49] Largehead Anole[48] Mourning Gecko[54] Plateau Striped Whiptail Lizard[49] Red Diamond Rattlesnake[55] Red-tailed Skink[50] Side-blotched Lizard[49] Speckled Rattlesnake[56] Water Moccasin[57] Western rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis)[58] Western Banded Gecko[54] Whiptail Lizard spp.[49] Wood Turtle[59]

[edit] Amphibians

• Appalachian Woodland Salamander^[60]
• Black-spotted Frog^[61]
• Mountain Dusky Salamander^[60]
• Tengger Desert Toad^[62]

[edit] Insects and other invertebrates

Acanthocephalan Worms[63] Alfalfa Weevil[64] Australian Parasitic Wasp sp.[65] Bean weevil sp.[66] Bedbug and other Bug spp.[67][68] Blister Beetle spp.[69] Blood-flukes (Schistosoma)[70] Blowfly[71] Box Crab[72] Broadwinged Damselfly sp.[73] Cabbage (Small) White (Butterfly)[74] Checkerspot Butterfly[74] Clubtail Dragonfly spp.[75] Cockroach spp.[76] Common Skimmer Dragonfly spp.[75] Creeping Water Bug sp.[77] Cutworm[78] Digger Bee[79] Dragonfly spp.[75] Eastern Giant Ichneumon (wasp)[65] Eucalyptus Longhorned Borer[80] Field Cricket sp.[81] Flour beetle[82] Fruit Fly spp.[83] Glasswing Butterfly[74] Grape Berry Moth[84] Grape Borer[80] Green Lacewing[85] Harvest Spider sp.[86] Hawaiian Orb-Weaver (spider)[86] Hen Flea[87] House Fly[88] Ichneumon wasp sp.[65] Incirrate Octopus spp.[72] Japanese Scarab Beetle[89] Jumping spider sp.[86] Larch Bud Moth[84] Large Milkweed Bug[90] Large White (Pieris brassicae)[91] Long-legged Fly spp.[92] Mazarine Blue[93] Mediterranean Fruit Fly[83] Mexican White[94] Midge sp.[92]

Male flour beetles are believed by scientists to engage in gay sex to practice mating as well as rid themselves of “old, less effective” sperm.[82] Migratory locust[95] Mite sp.[92] Monarch Butterfly[74] Narrow-winged Damselfly spp.[73] Parsnip Leaf Miner[92] Pomace Fly[92] Queen Butterfly[74] Red Ant sp.[92] Red Flour Beetle[96] Reindeer Warble Fly[92] Rose Chafer[92] Rove Beetle spp.[97] Scarab Beetle (Melolonthine)[98] Screwworm Fly[92] Silkworm Moth[84] Sociable Weaver[92] Southeastern Blueberry Bee[79] Southern Green Stink Bug[99] Southern Masked Chafer[92] Southern One-Year Canegrub[92] Spreadwinged Damselfly spp.[73] Spruce Budworm Moth[84] Stable Fly sp.[92] Stag Beetle spp.[100] Tsetse Fly[92] Water Boatman Bug[101] Water Strider spp.[102]

And despite the best efforts of many “doctors” and “psychologists” it’s not exactly something that needs fixing or infact should be fixed. They’ve tried everything from aversion therapy (which failed on both penguins and humans), to medication, to electro shock therapy and even religious killings and floggings with practically no success (perhaps they keep failing because it’s a part of human nature?)

I’ve always regarded sexual orientation as being akin to left or right handedness. There are people who are left handed, people who are right handed and people who are ambidextrous and enjoy both worlds and then there are people who are somehwhere in the middle and can do somethings with the left and somethings with the right. But I’ve increasingly begun to see that it’s far more than that. Most of us are now in our mid to late twenties (a couple are probably hitting their 70′s and are reading this blog hoping that it’ll be a dummies guide to euthenasia and some of you are probably 8 or 9 year olds who are here for the toilet humor) and have at some point longed for or have experienced an connection with a person of the opposite sex. We probably treasure memmories of that time and tend to look back on it very often. Imagine if you could only experience that with someone of your own sex and try and understand the feelings of disgust and disdain you’d face from everyone around you including pillars of your community; that’s what gay people have to go through in our society today ….. and that’s why I for one can say I admire them for their strength and fortitude when they do “come out” and try to function in a society that loaths them and wants to send them all to hell for no real reason.

And when I say no real reason I do mean that. I have yet to see a single point against homosexuality that I couldn’t argue against. The most common and generic is that they tend to have a higher incedences of STDs within their community ….. fucking garbage , the strictly lesbian population has the lowest incdence of HIV when compared with heterosexual and other homosexual groups according to the NAM (National AIDS Manual) and although the homosexual male population was at some point the group with the highest prevalence of HIV the number is now going down drastically over the past 10 years, where as the numbers for normal folk seem to have been on the sharp rise since 2003. Another arguement that I keep hearing is that it goes against God and nature …. please click the show button a couple of lines up, read the whole thing and then explain how this goes against nature when it has populated natural history since the dawn of time.

Another good one is that it’s” a disease that keeps spreading “…… I always answer that one by asking for numbers ….. which most people can’t give me. I then rattle of my own set of numbers comparing a kinsey series from the 1940′s and 50′s with a modern survey of similar scope conducted by a whole gaggle of people all agree that the number of people who have had some homosexual tendencies varies between 25-33% andthe number who are openly and strictly homosexual is around about 5%. (well more like 4-10%) which means that the numbers haven’t really changed drastically over the past 60 years and are probably not likely to change either. The Kinsey numbers are also significant because they mean that at least a third of your friends and family have at one point thought of batting for the other team as it were (just have a look around your dewaniya the next time you’re there)

Besides think of how much easier dating would be i Kuwait if you were gay, you could come and go as you pleased. Go on dinner dates, kiss in public and live together and no one would bat an eye lid. I’ve often thought about it but alas the hoo hoo has me wrapped up in its mystical spell ……. having to work under cloak and dagger and keep sneaking in public is definitely a worthy price to pay for the love of the hoo hoo …….

So the next time you see someone who is gay (or more likely someone you may think is gay and have used as a butt for every joke at the office) try and put yourself in thier shoes, the poor bastard isn’t blind nor deaf; he’s just willing to put up with your snickering ……