![]() ![]() ![]() “I don’t feel like I’m categorized as one thing or another because animals in the nonhuman world don’t have the same judgment.” “As a queer, mixed-race indigenous person who has struggled with the experience of belonging, I was drawn to the natural world,” says Pinar Ateş Sinopoulos-Lloyd, co-founder of Queer Nature, a project dedicated to increasing ecological literacy in the LGBTQ community. That’s because animals haven’t been raised in the same social structures that we, as humans, have. In fact, many animals are super queer by human standards, whether they’re male flamingos that court other males, strutting and waving their heads from side to side, or parrotfish that can switch genders. If there’s one reason so many queer folks love nature, it’s that animals aren’t judge-y: A raccoon doesn’t care who you’re attracted to, a garter snake isn’t going to question your gender, and a bird of paradise isn't going to raise an eyebrow to how you’re dressed.
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