The RAOU has set “Little Penguin” as the preferred name and that is why they do.
The gay claim is overblown alt-right shit, one SeaWorld claimed to have changed the name for that reason, no one else ever did.
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psud@aussie.zone 1 week agoIt’s scientific name is Eudyptula novaehollandiae
It’s common name in Australia in general was ‘fairy penguin’, but there has been effort to boost alternative names because they word fairy was a pejorative name for gay men
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 week ago
psud@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Thanks, I think I picked up that idea from that SeaWorld. I’ll stop repeating it now.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 week ago
But there’s an icecream here called Golden Gaytime, and the greatest Australian movie is The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert…