Penguins Resist Ex-Gay Therapy

From the Herald Sun's Penguins Stay Fairy:

A German zoo's plans to tempt its gay penguins to go straight by importing more females has been declared a failure.

The female penguins were flown in especially from Sweden in an effort to encourage the Humboldt penguins at Bremerhaven Zoo to reproduce.

But the six homosexual birds showed no interest in their new companions and remained faithful to each other.

Zoo director Heike Kueck said: "The relationships were apparently too strong."

365gay.com reports:

The gay males were separated from their mates and one by one the females were introduced. The males pined for their mates until they were reunited.

Earlier, the German-Switzerland gay rights group, HOSI, protested the zoo's intervention, saying in a public statement:

We deeply resent the attempts to interfere in the natural homosexual instincts of these penguins that are obviously happy in their same-sex partnerships. We urge any further attempts to break up these happy couples to be abandoned. (source)

I'll be the first to admit, I'm probably over-identifying here, but living as a gay man in Virginia, I know just how those penguins must feel.

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