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Guess which book, according to the American Library Association, is the title most often requested to be removed from schools and libraries in the U.S.? Give up? For the third year in a row, it’s And Tango Makes Three, which is a guide to building your own bomb while smoking crack and attending orgies in the evenings. Oh wait, sorry, no: And Tango Makes Three is actually the heartwarming, award-winning, bestselling 2005 children’s book about two male penguins who hatch a baby chick. We’ll say that again: Since its publication in 2005, more people have asked for this book to be removed from a school or library than any other book in the entire Library of Congress. Oh, yeah, and the book is based on the true story of two male penguins called Roy and Silo who hatched an egg together at New York’s Central Park Zoo. Talk about going against nature! (Yes, penguins can be gay. Or, rather, bi.)
But here’s a bit of news to warm the cockles of your heart: the authors behind the book, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, who also happen to be a couple, now have a Tango of their own. Their daughter Gemma was born to a surrogate mother with sperm from one of the men (they left it up to chance which one). Which totally makes up for the devastating news that Silo has since taken up with a female penguin named Scrappy. (Something similar happened this summer to San Francisco’s gay penguins.) Hey, sometimes life imitates art — and other times, life imitates a crappy soap opera.
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Huh? Isn’t meat production one of the major causes of global warming? Well, yes… but according to Lisa Hamilton, author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness, eating meat raised under the right conditions can actually help mitigate climate change.
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If all the “Name That Schlong” contests on SUNfiltered got you hankering for an up-close-and-personal view of the specimens, you might want to consider booking your next vacation to Husavik, Iceland, where you could visit the Icelandic Phallological Museum. Which is exactly what it sounds like: a collection of phallic specimens — each lovingly stuffed and mounted — belonging to all manner of mammal, including whales, polar bears, shrews, and mice.
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We were tickled pink a few weeks back when we read about the so-called gay penguins who were raising an adopted chick. But “bisexual penguins” would probably have been more accurate; most scientists agree that animals that engage in same-sex activity don’t usually shun heterosexual encounters. Rather, they simply have ingrained gay tendencies that are a part of what make their little animal community work. As sociologist Eric Anderson of the University of Bath in England so succinctly puts it, “Animals don’t do sexual identity. They just do sex.”
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Don’t let the term ‘rogue taxidermist’ confuse you. Nate Hill is nothing less than an artist, his materials are just less common. Instead of paint, Hill rummages through the dumpsters of New York’s Chinatown at night for discarded animal parts which he uses for his projects. Projects is intentionally vague, since his work ranges from taxidermied animal composites preserved in jars to life-sized interpretations of Adam and Eve (yes, made entirely, almost repulsively, out of dead animals) to community events like the Human Petting Zoo, Fish ‘n’ Chicks, and Bouncy Rides. The next Bouncy Ride can be had at the Lorimer L stop on April 16 from 10-11pm.
You can see a calendar of events at the Club Animals blog.
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Make sure to go out for a Movie Night with Isabella Rossellini.
Isabella Rossellini from Season 2 of GREEN PORNO
The legendary actress will be presenting her new GREEN PORNO 2 shorts and her father’s film THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS Wednesday, April 1 at 7pm.
The event will be held at the IFC Center Wednesday, located at 323 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10014. You can reach the Box Office at (212) 924-7771.
GREEN PORNO 2 follows the first season of Ms. Rossellini’s series of critically acclaimed films examining the sex lives of insects. This time, she turns the focus on a variety of aquatic creatures in six films that range from “Barnacle,” to “Starfish” and “Whale,” with Ms. Rossellini portraying the titular character.
Tickets for this very special event are $15 IFC Center members, $18 general admission.
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Living on planet earth is not the only thing that human beings share with animals. We also share the need to procreate. In most species, making little ones often entails various types of courtship rituals. Discover what kind of animal courtship most closely matches your particular style of romance in the Greenporno Quiz.
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