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    April 25, 2024
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    A Field Guide to Gay Animals
    Official Trailer
    Humans aren't the only ones having gay sex in the bushes.
    Owen Ever
    Host & Producer
    Laine Kaplan Levenson
    Host & Producer
    Nathan Harrison
    Producer
    Katie Jane Fernelius
    Producer
    Aviva Lessard
    Producer
    Julie Shapiro
    Executive Producer & Editor

    Nature is so Gay!

    So why don’t more people know this?

    Homosexuality has been documented in over 1,500 species of animals. From gay geese and bisexual bison to lesbian elephant love affairs and all-male, all-whale orgies, expressions of same-sex action in the natural world are all around us. Learn why a phenomenon so abundant is so often dismissed and forgotten.

    Join hosts Owen Ever and Laine Kaplan-Levenson as they traverse the animal queendom, and celebrate Queerness, gender, and joy in the world around us. 

    Premieres Thursday, June 13.

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    #5 GAY MYSTIQUE
    After a Drag Queen tour of the gay animals at the zoo, Owen and Laine look deeper into the legacy of the book Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity, which has been their talisman throughout this journey.
    July 11, 2024
    #4 GAY FIELDS
    Laine and Owen talk about helping children understand homosexuality in themselves and in nature, and learn the story of two gay, or at least queer-coded, bulls in literature and in real life.
    July 4, 2024
    #3 GAY DEPTHS
    Owen and Laine take a refreshing dip into the lives of gay marine mammals, and the liberatory lessons we can learn from our Queer undersea kin. With: Cory Diane (composer); Dr. Janet Mann (Professor of Biology and Psychology at Georgetown University); Dr Alexis Pauline Gumbs (author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals)
    June 27, 2024
    #2 GAY ARK
    Wherein Laine comes face-to-snout with real gay animals, then heads back to the studio for a conversation with Owen about the evolution of zoos, the lingering legacy of the Victorians, and the ultimate supremacy of gay elephant sex. With: Eliza Zeitlin from Humble Pig Animal Sanctuary and Dr. Laurel Braitman, author of Animal Madness: Inside Their Minds.
    June 20, 2024
    GAY TIME
    In the first episode of A Field Guide to Gay Animals, Owen, Laine, and a 200-year-old gay tortoise explore the history of scientific research into gay animals, with the help of a seminal book that defined nature for what it is – queer as f*ck.
    June 13, 2024
    Official Trailer
    Humans aren't the only ones having gay sex in the bushes.
    April 25, 2024
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