Until I came across this research I spent a lifetime thinking that I was an outlier, probably a genetic or evolutionary anomaly. Now I’m not so sure. Supporting this idea is research on creatures that, according to Monk and colleagues, “have traits that likely resemble the ancestral organisms in which sexual behaviors evolved.”16 These creatures are echinoderms, a family of marine animals that includes starfish. These starfish are behaviorally bisexual. As a side note, I feel like starfish should be the mascots for queerness. They engage in homosexual and heterosexual behavior, they can
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