Tag: gay penguins

Penguins have emerged as unexpected LGBTQ symbols, with the birds becoming foster parents from San Francisco to New Zealand — but what does a young couple do when there’s no penguin egg to adopt? For a pair of Humboldt penguins living in the Munich Zoo, you find a nice rock to raise.    During Munich’s pride week, the zoo opted to highlight the various LGBTQ animals they house, but none of those stole visitors’ hearts quite like this pair of...

Penguins often pair up with a penguin of the same sex, with many of those turning out to be great parents for baby chicks, so much so that a zoo opted to display a pride-themed banner for their penguins. But a Catholic journalist is outraged because people are telling children that the penguins aren’t all straight. In honor of Pride Month, the London Zoo placed a miniature banner in the style of others designed by the Stonewall UK charity. It read...

You won’t find them waddling down Market Street this Sunday, but a pair of male Magellanic penguins at the San Francisco Zoo are already standing up for Pride this month in their own special way. The duo, Eduardo and Rio, serve as surrogate daddies in one of the most successful breeding programs for the species of penguins in the world. The pair have become so good at their duties, they’ve become the go-to couple for raising penguin chicks at the zoo,...

Zookeepers at ZSL London Zoo are commemorating Pride this year by celebrating one of the zoo’s best-known same-sex couples: Ronnie and Reggie, a pair of male Humbolt penguins that have been paired since 2014. In addition to humorously inviting gay penguin couples around the world to participate in London’s July 6 Pride parade — was the invite written in Penguinese? — the zoo has given Ronnie and Reggie a small banner in their habitat that reads, “Some penguins are gay....