Republican candidate says giraffes prove “You cannot be born gay"
A Republican candidate for Congress offered up his analysis of human sexuality and gender on Tuesday, in a group interview with South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel editorial board, alongside two other Republicans running to represent House District 20 in Broward County.
“You never see a giraffe, a male giraffe, that mate(s) with a giraffe,” Rod Joseph said. “Myself right now saying, ‘I am a giraffe,’ that doesn’t mean it’s true.”
Everyone is “born straight,” he offered.
The unusual assertion was made in answer to a question about U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) declaration at the beginning of Pride Month, “Homosexuality has no place in America.”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/republican-candidate-says-giraffes-prove-you-cannot-be-born-gay/Open linkView original on pawb.social
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Bet that dude jumps when someone else's Grindr notification goes off out in public.
I had a new prank idea just now, I need to get the notification sound and play it in public.
Sir, how many giraffes did you survey to come to this conclusion?
Computer, zoom in, decode, and enhance.
Plenty of queer animals throughout the animal Kingdom.
Republicans will claim that giraffes aren't gay and then shoot them anyway.
Tell that to Proximo, dude.
Those giraffes you sold him, they won't mate. They just walk around, eating, and not mating. You sold him... queer giraffes. He wants his money back.
Of course this is in my backyard. God i hate this ass backwards state. I cant wait to escape Floriduh but the system just keeps keeping me down.
The white sand beaches are pretty nice, IMHO.
https://www.visitflorida.com/travel-ideas/articles/florida-white-orange-dark-sand-beaches/
If you wind up leaving, enjoy its strengths now.
The nature here is the only reason i didn't leave years ago. The beaches are great, the everglades are amazing. Hell, i even really enjoy our scrub forests. Id miss it for sure but its getting bad here.
I wish I could just start a country and allow politicians to rule it but whenever one of them says anything about sexuality or immigrants it's just straight to the guillotine.
Well maybe we can just start doing that regardless of whether or not we start a new country first.
I'd approve of that. Everyone who wants to mess with personal relationships or push fear of new arrivals deserves as much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals
"Oh, no. Facts!" Rod Joseph shrieked in horror.
I would imagine most giraffes, male or otherwise, mate with giraffes.
I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt here as to meaning, as the second part of his statement is even more incoherent if not, given context. I'm assuming that he just misspoke.
I don't see as how his giraffe-ness would have much bearing on homosexuality, otherwise.
He's making an aside to denigrate otherkin because he doesn't know the difference between gay people and otherkin. After all, we're both queer.
I've never heard of otherkin before today. The more you know
Oh, boomer conservatives heard about otherkin back in the 90s around the time of the elfinkind usenet forums and mailing lists. And they've been malding about us ever since. A lot of them encountered otherkin around the same time as trans people, and to them, transness is an extension of otherkinity.
Historically, otherkin communities have argued that self-identity is more important than the veil of material reality. Although today many neoliberal trans groups are realist and conform to reality, in the boomer conservative mind, the queer movement has always sought the downfall of mundane human reality. And I say: good. Fuck this socially hegemonic subjective consensus reality presented by the modernists as objective. I seek a future age in which humanity use reality's inherent subjectivity to manipulate reality, and thus become as gods. The rich are going to manipulate our subjectivities to support their capitalist reality either way. It's time for the working class to take this power back for ourselves.
Hell yeah. For some reason my soul is the shape of an amorphous cloud. Like a nebula, or a fart. It has its pros and cons, but it is what it is, I haven't figured out anyway to change it.
I never thought maybe others would have different shapes or forms, that's super interesting.
Allegedly.
Except with the occasional sick ostrich.
and probably some sexually repressed republicans.
Unless they get raped by Republican politicians.
Lions, Giraffes, Bonobos and Tigers, oh my!
I wonder where he got the giraffes example from. It feels to like it was chosen on purpose. Uneducated people won't fact check it and the fact checkers cause social media engagement.
Not sure, but I would NOT be surprised if got this from a Hovind. The morons who say bananas disprove evolution and dinosaurs prove the flood. Gods , but I wish I was making that up
Probably just the first animal he thought of that he didn't see homosexual behavior of in videos before, seeing how common it is in documentaries about most felines or apes. It happens so much that it's difficult for the cameramen not to film. 😅
This is why they want to dismantle Wikipedia, by the way.
So what Joseph is basically doing is coming out of the closet saying “I’m straight as a giraffe.”
Kinda cute.
Giraffes, the gayest species.
Literal 1984 shit. Taking one of the most extreme examples of hit happening and denying it completely. So sick of this shit.
Of course they’re necking.
The giraffes are keeping all of the gay to themselves so humans can’t have any
Well, yes, I personally have never seen a male giraffe mate with another male giraffe. I've never seen a male and a female giraffe mate, either. In fact I've never seen a giraffe in the wild at all.
So I'm gonna take this one step further and say giraffes don't exist in the wild. Every giraffe that exists lives in zoos because that's the only place I, personally, have ever seen them. Any evidence to the contrary is fake news.
Am I Republicaning correctly?
Close. You have to make a bold claim that combines those 2 unrelated topics. Something like....."The fact that I have only seen gay giraffes exist while in captivity proves that being gay is unnatural. I'm 100% positive every giraffe outside of Zoos are banging the Lord's way."
I have never personally witnessed two Floridians having sex. Therefore we can conclude that Floridians don't procreate and thus Florida can only sustain its population by illegally importing hordes of immigrants. The American federal government should arrest the entire Floridian government to put an end to this.
You are absolutely right!
Meanwhile, Grindr profile views and hookups peak every time there's a Republican held convention.
It’s only gay if the balls touch your chin.
It doesn't count if it's just the tip!
Licking precum isn't gay, guys!
No, that's fine. It's only gay if you don't yell "no homo" before deepthroating that thing. Science, y'know
It's just a brojob, nothing serious.
I wish I knew how to get people to care about things that actually matter even 10% as much as they care about things that will never, ever affect their lives in any material way... and are also NONE OF THEIR GODDAMNED FUCKING BUSINESS.
Why do you care if someone likes dick?
So much of the anti-LGBTQ hysteria comes from people who are in immediate proximity to friends and loved ones coming out of the closet. And while the natural response to this occurrence is to show love and support, we have a deluge of misinformation that's designed to poison people into believing the most insane bullshit.
Which is to say, people do care. But they tend to get their heads scrambled with reactionary media. And the end result is that, after hearing for decades "if you're gay then you've become the victims of sexual assault and you're going to do drugs and you'll get horrible diseases that will kill you", they respond with abject horror at the slightest hint of queerness. Same if you see a sibling or a child or (god fucking forbid) a parent or spouse show signs of it.
The end result of this firehose of induced anxiety, combined with the economic pressures of poverty and the social pressures of fascist religious institutions, is incoherent panic.
Because then they'll make you like dick and liking dick will kill you and damn your soul in a lake of fire for eternity.
Because he likes dick, I guarantee it.
"You aren't born liking dick. You choose to like dick, just like I'm choosing not to like dick. I don't like dick, I don't like dick, I don't like dick, I don't, I don't, I don't"
He says to himself while gargling balls in a public restroom.
I mean if he stays away from the dick and just gargles the balls, maybe he really doesn't like dick
(He's still lying to himself and self-loathing, but what if?)
I do like balls, I don't like dick, I do like balls, I don't like dick, I do like grglgrglgrgl..vote for me!
Because they do too but were told it's bad.
I'm guessing religion.
Leviticus 18:22:
Leviticus 20:13:
Jude 1:7
Referencing:
Genesis 19
Genesis 19:5–8
And:
Genesis 19:12–13
And:
Genesis 19:24–25:
Romans 1:26–28
1 Corinthians 6:9–10
Most of that is just Sodom and Gomorrah. God has more to say about what to do with slaves and how to treat them compared to sexual relations between two people.
Iirc that might have been mistranslated and it actually meant don't rape male children.
Religion is the excuse, not the cause. There's a fair number of religious institutions which are queer friendly or at least queer-indifferent. You gravitate towards the religious group that echoes your own biases. Those biases aren't imbued by some supernatural force. They're the result of material incentives and social divides that demagogues exploit when they fashion a religious doctrine.
Oh, well, if a 2,000 year old book written by people who couldn't even get decent lube says so then who am I to argue.
BREAKING: U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) caught in public restroom having sex with another man
another manmale giraffeWanna be mad? If you wanna be accurate, it's most likely a human child that was kidnapped and enslaved.
Aren't giraffes known for being the most gay out of almost all animal species? Or am I thinking of another animal?
They are, yes.
This is like saying Liberace proves gay people are all actually straight.
https://slrpnk.net/post/40047735/23228566
There we go someone beat me to it lmao
Dolphins too.
I think he's saying that it's an acquired taste
In my limited experience, I have read plenty of anecdotes where someone has this point of view, only to later realise that they’re bisexual.
You can't be born straight, either...
It's just like those homophobes that talk about how hard it is not to be gay. "Something something constant temptation to have sex with men" and all that. I can say with absolute certainty that I've never experienced that temptation. I think you might just be attracted to men my guy.
Even if it were true that people aren't queer by birth, that should make no difference to their rights.
My very fundamentalist first boss and I agreed strongly on this, although with opposite conclusions.
My feeling was whatever one or more consenting adults want to do in private is fine.
His feeling was if God tells you not to do something that you shouldn't do it, even if you really want to, even if you were born wanting to.
Religion and sexual repression, name a more iconic duo!
I'd be willing to take a large bet that this guy has a Grindr profile.
I mean, this is so on the nose, it has to be on purpose.
I love how all these conservatives have medical degrees and specialties. I had no idea that we had so many doctors in the US. Where is our free healthcare if we have such a surplus of 'expert' medical professionals???
Quite a lot of them are chiropractors, osteopaths and other para-medical "degree" holders. Not to mention the ones who have real medical degrees, but are certified by dodgy boards that they set up themselves, like Rand Paul.
How much animal porn is this guy watching that he thinks he's an expert on animal mating habits?
Quickly closes browser tab
"It's... it's research!"
Shouldn't there be some law or something to remove people in office who blatantly lie like this? Surely someone with this kind of attitude could not uphold democracy. They are a threat to national security.
That dude definitely wants to fuck a giraffe.
You mean get fucked by a giraffe. It's always the people who are religiously sexually repressed and in reality really, really crave the largest cock their assholes can take.
To be fair, giraffes are stupid sexy. 🦒
Yeah.
In other news, unicorns are straight
They still give me the horn.
I was going to say, who knew giraffe scientists were this far into mapping the human genome, but then I read he was a Republican, so it’s obviously some tall tale
land of the free... you are free to think and be exactly as those morons want you to think and be
I wonder how does he explain this then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRe_x5CECQg&t=32s
I mean I would argue that you cannot born gay but you can born to be gay.
If our giraffes don’t mate, how do they be like they do when they are?