More Gay Penguin Dads!

Gay penguin dads Guido and Molly of the East London Aquarium in South Africa have been caring for their unnamed chick since it was born five months ago, reports The Sun. The pair began to incubate the egg after an opposite-sex couple rejected it. (Molly was originally thought to be female, hence her name, but is in fact male.)

The pair join the famed Silo and Roy (Tango’s parents) and Z and Vielpunkt of Bemerhaven Zoo in Germany as adoptive gay penguin pairs.

The Sun quotes Curator Siani Tinley, who reports, “He’s strong and healthy and showing no signs of confusion from having non-heterosexual parents. He’s happy and loves swimming around – I think the parents are very proud.”

Also proud, I imagine, are actual gay dads Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, authors of And Tango Makes Three. Here’s what they had to say about their book topping the American Library Association’s list of the most challenged books in the country for three years in a row. That, despite the fact that their story is true—and clearly not an isolated case. How many more gay penguin parents will it take before the right stops it with their “gay parents are unnatural” argument?

Coming soon: a new advocacy and support group called COLAGPE: Chicks of Lesbian and Gay Penguins Everywhere. (With a respectful nod to my friends at COLAGE.)

(Photo: Not one of the actual penguins in question.)