Queer Ecology Wild Wander

This pride month lets celebrate queerness in nature. Take a wild wander with the Petersfield Town Council Ranger on Petersfield Heath.

Queer Ecology is an emerging field that brings together ecology and queer theory. It questions heteronormative assumptions in science and environmentalism. Queer Ecology isn’t only about animals and reproduction. It’s about how ideas of “naturalness” shape our world view. Nature has long been used as a moral compass — invoked to define what’s right, pure, or “normal.” But when “nature” is presented as heterosexual, binary, and orderly, everything outside of that frame gets cast as deviant or dangerous. When we look outside the binary, heteronormative lens, we see a rainbow spectrum of queerness in nature.

This event is open to all LGBTQ+ people and their allies. You don’t have to be a member of the community to attend, but there will be firm boundaries on respect. Come with an open heart and an open mind and learn about how queerness exists in every corner of the natural world.