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Muddle-headed, but inadvertently revealing
Let's get one thing straight (ahem)... this is a really dumb, muddle-headed and lazily-produced show that falls somewhere between lame comedy and tongue-in-cheek documentary. The very idea of having comic Scott Capurro searching for evidence of homosexuality in animals is fundamentally misguided. First because the comic approach continually undermines any serious examination of the question. Second because Capurro isn't anywhere near smart enough, likeable enough or funny enough to make the concept fly. But if you can endure Capurro's annoying schtick you'll find some of his encounters with scientists, researchers, zoo keepers and farmer (among others) both hilarious and illuminating. Many of these would-be experts are hellbent on denying homosexuality in the animal kingdom despite the evidence before their very eyes. Others want to demonise it. Some just have a somewhat bizarre obsession with it. All of which says more about the humans on display than it does about homosexuality in animals. Only in the final moments of the program does Capurro "discover" the truth: that homosexuality is well-documented in more than 400 species, but is routinely excised from documentaries and research findings and publications. That was 2002. Since then there has been considerably more research and rather less hysteria around the subject, and you'd probably find it damn near impossible now to find anyone who would deny homosexual behaviour throughout the animal world. Which makes The Truth about Gay Animals a curious and quaint piece of gay TV history, for all it's flaws.
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- ozjosh
- Sep 26, 2022
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