9 Books That Practice Queer Ecology

I grew up in a small southern town. The models I had for queerness were people on television, living glamorous lives in New York City—lives totally removed from the farmlands, marshes, and forests that surrounded my home. One day, desperate for a nearer, more intimate model, I went online and searched, “Can animals be queer?” This search eventually led me to Bruce Bagemihl’s Biological Exuberance. Clocking in at over 700 pages, this behemoth encyclopedia of “gay animal sex” was comprehensive, explicit, and exactly what I needed. With time, I created meaningful queer relationships with humans and outgrew the book, but I never forgot its evidence for queerness as natural. 

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