“No one’s had a bad experience with a penguin.” “They’re not like sharks,” said the senior penguin keeper Amy Lawrie, her second in command. “Everyone likes penguins,” said Tish Hannan, the head of penguin supervision at the aquarium. Suddenly, though, Australia’s biggest animal celebrities were two gay penguins, which their keepers noticed with pleasure. If a penguin colony could figure this out, a human nation certainly could.Īustralia is famous for having many dangerous creatures on land and in water: some of the most dangerous snakes and spiders in the world, kangaroos that look like bodybuilders, great white sharks patrolling surfers. These two diligent Gentoos, unaware of the political heat around their courtship, became a larger symbol for the country. The human gay marriage debate had brought out thorny personal and religious tensions. When Sphen and Magic became a couple, Australia had just gone through a bitter battle about whether gay marriage should be legal. Now the chick of a gay penguin union is waddling around an ice enclosure by the touristy docks in Sydney.
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