Sheep do it, penguins do it, monkeys do it, swans do it... Do what? Well you know...
I Wool Survive featured pieces made with wool from the world’s “first flock of gay sheep.”HyperallergicIsa FarfanNovember 20, 2025Gay wool from gay sheep? What do you mean, wool can be gay? Let me explain.In a publicity holy grail, the queer hookup app Grindr debuted a knitwear collection by celebrity designer Michael Schmidt in New York City last week. The textiles were created with wool culled from the world's "first flock of gay sheep" in Germany. On Thursday, November 13, Rainbow Wool teamed up with the dating app and the fashion designer to debut a 36-piece collection at Manhattan's Altman Building in a show titled I Wool Survive.Wool for the designs originated on a farm in Löhne, Germany, overseen by Michael Stücke. Stücke, an openly gay man, rescues "gay rams," male sexually-oriented sheep, that his company Rainbow Wool claims are often slaughtered because they don't procreate. Scientists estimate that as many as 8% of rams are sexually oriented toward other males, a statistic prominently displayed on Rainbow Wool's website.
[An aside: the Republicans think being LGBTQ+ is a choice... I wonder when the farm animals decided to be gay? -- Sorry, I just had to insert some politics into this.]
Schmidt, who has designed for high-profile clients including Madonna and Taylor Swift, said that while his gay wool collection was light-hearted, it addresses he serious topics of mistreatment of homosexual animals and prejudice against LGBTQ+ communities around the world.Stücke said in a press release that the fashion collection "proves that being gay is part of nature itself."
Here is a link to the company.
A new study posits that same-sex sexual behavior developed to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce conflict and build bonds.NBC NewsBy Evan BushJanuary 12, 2026Humans are far from the only primates engaging in same-sex sexual activity.A new study found instances in which 59 nonhuman primate species, including bonobos, chimpanzees and macaques, have taken part in same-sex behaviors.Researchers observed repeated occurrences of the behavior in 23 species. The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the most comprehensive review of same-sex behavior in primates to date (though humans are not included). The findings challenge some common assumptions about the purpose of sex in the animal world, suggesting it plays a broader social role.The authors posit that same-sex behavior developed evolutionarily to help primates in complex social groups ease tension, reduce conflict and build bonds. A combination of genetics and external stress — from the environment or from social systems — appears to drive this behavior, they conclude.“What we found shows that same-sex is not like something bizarre, aberrant or rare. It’s everywhere, it’s very useful, it’s very important,” said Vincent Savolainen, director of the Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet at Imperial College London and an author of the study.
And they do it in the rain!
What is very interesting is that across all the species around 10% are gay! And science had a theory it is, in G. E. Hutchinson, in 1959 proposed that homosexuality is a balanced polymorphism.
"Scientists call this 'Balanced Polymorphism.' It’s the same biological trick nature uses to keep us resistant to diseases. It turns out that 'gay genes' aren't just about who we love; they are linked to traits that make our families more fertile and our communities less aggressive. Nature keeps us around at that steady 10% because we are the 'social glue' that keeps the rest of the species from falling apart."
We have a clear purpose in the natural order: we provide essential help in childcare, we protect the family unit, and we ensure the survival of the next generation."
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