Do Fairy Penguins Offend Gay Community?
I’m starting a movement to make penguins the official GLBT mascot. Stories about the dapper birds and the gay community just keep rolling in. In Queensland, Australia, Sea World theme park operators have decided to call the fairy penguins of Phillip Island by their alternate name of “little penguins” so as not to offend gay people. The popular colony of 60,000 penguins attracts 500,000 visitors a year. (Thanks to Queerty for the sighting.)
Members of Queensland’s gay community view the move as silly. Of course they would. If they were going to get upset about fairy penguins, they’d also be lobbying to change the name of their state to “Female-monarch-land” to avoid offending the drag queens.
I’m not sure which made me laugh more: this true story or the one on Fake Gay News about the penguin march on Washington. Either way, I want to see some big ol’ penguin floats in the Pride parades this June.
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[...] Continuing my campaign to strengthen ties between penguins and the LGBT community, I’ll pass along this cry for help from the aforementioned fairy penguins of Queensland. According to the Sydney Morning Herald (thanks to Blogging Baby for the link), penguins caught in oil spills lose the natural insulation of their feathers. The Philip Island Nature Park therefore put out a call for penguin sweaters to keep the birds warm and dry. [...]