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Gay lions not gay after all; Slate hardest hit, but finds a fabulous silver lining

An award-winning nature photographer sent a thrill up the legs of the Huffington Post staff last weekend with “some spectacular images” of two male lions getting it on in the tall grass in Botswana.

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As thrilled as everyone was to see photographic proof that there are gay lions, it turns out, to the disappointment of all, that one of the lions was actually a female with a mane. This, of course, was Slate’s opportunity to step in and probe deeply into lion sexuality.

It’s obvious from the tone of Slate’s piece that it’s intended to be tongue-in-cheek, but you could very likely pass it off to your humorless gender studies professor as your final paper.

So, about that silver lining. The fact that the lioness has a mane is proof that the idea of a male/female gender binary has outlived its usefulness in the human world:

Just because his partner was assigned female at birth doesn’t mean he’s straight, either. Botswana’s lion scene has achieved a level of queerness the modern LGBTQ movement should strive to reach.

Thus, these lions portend a future we all knew was coming: the day when homonormativity reaches its mainstream apex, making gender, not sexuality, the foremost battleground for queer liberation … Soon, most of us will dispense with the concept of a binary gender identity, if we haven’t already.

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When’s the last time you saw separate restrooms for male and female lions? Think about it.

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Excellent point.

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