Queer Planet

This is such a beautiful and informative documentary! I love nature so much and to see how so many creatures are a part of the LGBT community is amazing and it proves that homophobia just exists with humans. This world of ours is so beautiful and big and wonderful and humans have destroyed with their hate and darkness. We need more light and more love and more hope and positivity and goodness in this world! Homophobia should have never ever existed! Being a part of the LGBTQIA community is natural and normal. This documentary needs to be shown to classrooms and universities everywhere! This documentary is so important!

Not only does representation matter, what it's so imperative that members outside the scientific community know that the natural world is very queer. We need more of this. Over 70 different species of mammals alone have homosexual relationships and that's not even the baseline of it. Brava.

We are in a new era where film makers now need to show the truth of what the animal kingdom is. It's beautiful and unique, filled with queerness and has proven that biology is not an excuse to be homophobic. This is disproving the biology take on far right and homophobic views that homosexuality and transgender is not "right". I hope they stay mad.

Queer Planet is a well-intentioned, visually stunning and enjoyably informative documentary, but also more than somewhat muddle-headed. In the concluding comments to the film the various scientist-presenters make the point that being more informed about just how queer nature can be might be key to humans being more tolerant of each other. It's odd then that Queer Planet is somewhat exclusively pitched at a queer audience, and would more than likely alienate those who most need to hear what it has to say. A big part of the problem is the gayer-than-gay narration by Andrew Rannells, jam-packed with gay culture allusions and you-go-gurl snark. It quickly becomes tiresome and by the end I would have been ready to endorse a fatwa on Rannells. I doubt your average straight viewer would find it appealing, much less entertaining. And anyone who came to the film sceptical or wary would instantly turn it off on the strength of the narration alone. There's a case for levity when it comes to selling science, but the wrong kind of levity only undermines and de-legitimises the science. This is very definitely the wrong kind of levity.

This documentary has made me very, very angry. For years as a gay man I have had society treat me with both hostility and irreverence. This abnormal response by the "normal" is the misconception that homosexuality or similar is non productive, which has been emphasised by our religions, which founded the basis of Common Law. In this documentary, matters of scientific fact completely dispel our human illogical, irrational and paranoid perceptions regarding sexuality. This documentary proves that same sex couples adopt orphans and raise them as their own and so much more. What makes my blood boil is that for tens of years, television documentary makers have filmed in the wild and have misrepresented the animal kingdom to us all. Who's playing God! Well done to all for this documentary. More power to your elbow.

Queer Planet finally legitimises centuries of natural history observations of queer animals. This documentary may be confronting to those with idealistic repulsion to natural animal behaviour but will be validating to millions that are told they are "unnatural". This work fearlessly tackles the anti queer history of our most famous naturalists (Darwin). The cinematography is as good as any other nature documentary. The narrator and interviewees are entertaining but not made into caricatures of queer people. One of the most engaging and interesting documentaries I have seen and I look forward to more!