A Little Gay Natural History tour
Ғылым және технология
The natural world is full of astonishing diversity. Join the Museum's Josh Davis as he takes you on an LGBTQ+ tour of the Natural History Museum, London. From the Mantellisaurus in Hintze Hall, to the statue of Charles Darwin, swans and penguins in the Bird gallery and hyenas in the Mammals gallery. Josh explores the collections and discuss the breath-taking diversity of the natural world through a queer lens.
If you loved this, why not check out Josh’s book ‘A Little Gay Natural History’? Expect to be informed, surprised and entertained as Josh reveals behaviours that have previously been concealed and explains how same-sex courtship is more widespread than we may realise 🏳️🌈
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00:00 Who was Franz Nopcsa?
4:05 How fish challenge the sex binary
6:41 Homosexuality in the natural world
9:08 What can Darwin teach us about sexuality?
10:54 The early exploration of queer nature
12:52 Eugen Sandow: a Victorian sex symbol
15:40 Homosexual behaviour in primates
18:50 How the sex life of penguins was hidden for 100 years
20:57 The successful story of homosexual behaviour in male swans
22:46 Can an animal be gay?
24:52 Female spotted hyenas have a pseudo-penis
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To y'all who are mad, stay mad: we love drinking your angry tears for breakfast! And to the actual Natural History Museum, thank you for a fun tour!
I am about 7 minutes in and already I have the words "this is brilliant" echoing in my head. 🙃
The Animalogic channel recently released a video on hermaphroditism. It’s a very interesting topic and just goes to show how “weird” and wonderful gender and sexuality are in nature. It also is a way to show who the bigots are.
@kellydalstok8900
13 күн бұрын
Btw, I’m a straight woman in my sixties so I have no horse in the race, I just took the trouble to educate myself.
Happy Pride Month!! We exist and will not be going away! Stay mad!
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So good! Thank you!
Interesting video but the music transitions are WAY too loud
@johndutchman
14 күн бұрын
way-too-loud . . . is the theme of the Month
I'm sure these comments are going to be a trashfire, but kudos to the NHM for showing the reality and diversity of nature. The real world we live in is complex and ever-changing, and it doesn't always fit into neat tidy categories. Folks who can't handle the idea that queerness can be found all throughout biology are blind to their own biases. It's fascinating to me that scientists have been documenting queer behaviour and even physical transformation between sexes in the natural world since we first started writing scientific observations down! clear back to antiquity! That's super neat and awesome!
Natural History Museum, Thank you very much, thhat was very interesting and learned a lot! 1. I always believed that laying eggs would somehow leave grooves in the nearby bones of birds and dinosaurs. Especially if the animal is small and the egg is large. And that way you could tell the female apart from the male if you just had bones and no plumage and scales or skin left. 2. I would like a life as this fish that starts completely asexual and lives monogamously and changes sex during their life several times. I would just like the experience of living from all perspectives. I also really like the idea of turning asexual if life is too hard and exhausting for a while. (Which the fish doesn't. But I would.) Thank you very much!🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⚧️
Finally someone is talking about my hero, Franz Nopcsa!
Absolutely fascinating! Thank you!
I'm in another country and saw a NHM video come up in my timeline. I watched it, it was great. So I came here to see what else you do. And the first video you have is this activist identity politics BS. I won't explore any further.
Really? Who cares if someone is homosexual or not? People are people. Why the NEED to keep labelling folk! It's their achievements, successes, discoveries, how they inspire, or even their failures, that need to be celebrated, or mentioned. It's immaterial if they are gay or not. STOP having to 'tack on "...and he was gay..." And??? GET over it. And GET on with LIFE!
@FindThisArtist
14 күн бұрын
It's ram it down your throat month. Intersectionality politics were a response to the civil rights movement, why judge people on the content of their character when you can label them.
@juliamaddox4408
14 күн бұрын
If you didn't care, you could've just scrolled on past.
@juliamaddox4408
14 күн бұрын
@@FindThisArtist Another one who could've just scrolled on by. Stay mad! 9 more days to go! Hope your throat can handle it!!!
@FindThisArtist
14 күн бұрын
@@juliamaddox4408 Palpable irony. Stay mad, maddox. Keep on labelling 👍
@jamesizzard7835
14 күн бұрын
Totally agree 👍. When we are dug up or any animals we will not see sexuality nor gender "preferences". They're not gonna dig a male skeleton up in 300 years and say this is Wendy 😂. Or see a female with birthing hips and say oh this must be a Clive.
I'm so sick of the injecting of identity politics into absolutely everything!!!
@maluithil
14 күн бұрын
Injecting? If someone was gay, they were gay. No one complains when a historical figure is described by where they were born, or their religion, or the profession of their parents. You want it to be secret history if someone was gay? Like it should be hidden or silenced?
@96books
14 күн бұрын
This video quite literally shows the history of scientific evidence of homosexuality. It’s not about identity politics, way to not understand anything
@hispid1
14 күн бұрын
You really missed the point - Way to go.
@Taydar
14 күн бұрын
@96books there is no scientific evidence.
@susanne5803
13 күн бұрын
Then just don't watch this video.
This is pathetic and disgraceful.
@kellydalstok8900
13 күн бұрын
Yes you are.