A museum in the United Kingdom is telling children that Dinosaurs Have “LGBTQ History” and that some birds are “queer,” claiming it was previously “hidden from the public.”
The Hastings Museum and Art Gallery in East Sussex, UK, ran an LGBTQ history exhibition funded by Arts Council England, which claimed some birds are “queer” because they “change their sex from female to male.”
However, the claims about Gay birds are entirely unfounded and have no basis in science, the Telegraph noted.
🏛️ Pheasants are ‘queer’, museum tells visitors in LGBT exhibitionhttps://t.co/1Nnh3kIfRA
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 22, 2024
The exhibition, which is affiliated with the Hastings Queer History Collective, also claims that “queer” behavior in animals being “unnatural” are undermined by the behavior of game birds.
According to a pamphlet from the museum:
“Despite queer behavior in the animal kingdom being observed as far back as the 18th century, it is often ignored or hidden from the public.’
“One example is of female pheasants changing their sex when they stop laying eggs and turn their brown feathers into the brightly colored feathering typical of males.”
“Pheasants feature in some of the earliest European studies of queer behavior in animals,” it continues.
“With queerness visible in the natural world, the argument that it is somehow ‘unnatural’ begins to unravel.”
Some birds do indeed change color due to hormonal changes, but this does not mean they change sex.
Biologist Dr Emma Hilton noted, “The only vertebrates that change sex are all fish. Birds do not change sex.”
Hilton added:
“Often in the process of ageing, female animals can produce male features as a result of hormonal changes, we can also see this in humans following the menopause, but we would not say that older women had changed sex if they have a bit of a moustache.”
The museum’s guide, designed by The They Them Studio, claimed that “Eighteenth-century colonialism is responsible for the destruction of many ancient gender systems in countries around the world.”
With zero evidence to back up their claims, it said past important figures and cultures have a “queer history” and believed in a “third gender,” but it was covered up.
In an attempt to add weight to their claims, it used an example of children starting puberty in ancient Japan who were considered a different gender and entered into a sexual relationship with adult masters, failing to point out that this is pedophilia, not trans history.
The Hastings Queer History Collective, which produced the 'The Queer History Trail Map' guide, was founded in 2020 after the museum and gallery received £450k of Arts Council funding to support a programme focussing on “inclusivity and community”.
— Sex Matters (@SexMattersOrg) March 22, 2024
The collective cites the Arts… pic.twitter.com/CW34CgHnGr
The guide goes on to make the following claims:
- Greek gods were bisexual
- King William II was definitely gay because he was a bit effeminate
- The 11th century Archbishop had “queer sensibilities” and could be “considered a defender of gay rights”
But the most nonsensical entry on the guide is a description of a fossilized dinosaur footprint, which states:
“We cannot comment on the sexuality of the dinosaur who made this footprint, but we do know that the 11-year-old boy who found it is now grown up, happily married to his husband Greg in a pink house in Hastings.”
“Queer history takes many forms, and in this case, it makes up an important part of the fossil’s provenance,” the guide adds.
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