Educational Campaigns & Services

In an increasingly polarised world, where the rights of marginalised groups, amongst them the queer and LGBTQ+ community, are met with resistance, violence, and hatred, it’s puzzling that simple solutions to promote broader acceptance aren’t embraced more widely. If we revisit our biology education, we see a glaring omission: the diversity of alternative mating, reproductive, and gender strategies in the natural world is rarely discussed. This is a missed opportunity. Including the perspective of Queer Nature within educational frameworks could easily debunk the harmful myth that queerness is some kind of "Western invention." Instead, it would highlight that diversity has always been present across all species on Earth.

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At the Narwhal Rainbow Alliance, we invite educational content developers to place greater emphasis on this topic. In 1999, researcher Bruce Bagemihl estimated that up to 20% of interactions in mammal and bird species could be categorised as homosexual. While data like this is challenging to validate due to societal stigma that still impacts science, it highlights the vast richness of life. So why not aim to include Queer Nature in 20% of biology curricula addressing evolution?