Too much fluidity?
Hahahaha you don’t say.
Join us! No wait, don’t, we’re not doing it after all. Pretend we never said anything. Pretend you never heard of us.
The full announcement, which hilariously has not been quietly deleted.
This Pride Month we’re celebrating the diversity of sexual behaviour, biology and reproduction found in nature.
Speak with our scientists about all manner of subjects, from asexual reproduction in Komodo dragons to the marvellous mating methods of molluscs. Watch award-winning drag king Bi-Curious George perform and pick your favourite specimen to use as a muse in one of our art workshops.
Enjoy exploring our galleries away from the daytime crowds, including our new free Fixing Our Broken Planet Gallery. Plus, visit our new exhibition Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth? for a truly out-of-this-world experience.
Join us for this after-hours event with science-centred activities you won’t find anywhere else.
This event has been cancelled. If you have any questions, contact us at contact us at after-hours@nhm.ac.uk.
Was it the “away from the daytime crowds” bit? Did that sound a little too much like come along with Uncle George while the grownups are not looking? Was it the after-hours part? The watch award-winning drag king aspect? Please advise.
‘Bi-Curious George’ – OMG that is mortifying. And the NHM is one of London’s most prestigious museums.
It reads like a parody. Is there a “uni-curious” George or a “tri-curious” George?
If sex is nonbinary, how can George be “bi-curious”? Shouldn’t he be non-bi-curious?
#1: I agree it should be ‘Bi-Curious George,’ as in the time-worn expression ‘By George, you’re right!’ Or wrong, or whatever as the case may be.
‘Bi-Curious George’ is evidently a cross-dressing female, since she is billed as a ‘drag king’. Drag kings are less common than drag queens, who as most people, I think, know are gay men – ‘queens’ – who cross-dress on occasion, typically in eye-catching styles with an effect of parody. Parody is integral to camp culture.
Oh, and ‘bi-curious’ is a term that has traditionally been applied to a het person who is wondering whether they may be bisexual and hangs about in gay/lesbian circles.
Stop saying “Bi-Curious George,” because I really don’t want to see that book at the library next year. (Some monkeys like bananas. And some monkeys like peaches. And some monkeys…”
Uncle George? Curious George is the title character of a very popular series of books and TV cartoons with an audience target age of pre-school to 8-years. The name is also trademarked and under copyright, so it’s entirely possible that legal action may have been threatened over such an obvious use of the name.
But doesn’t fair use allow for parody/jest uses of that kind?
Oh, I see that’s US law; never mind.
Oh, God! There’s even a book. The cover art is vomit-inducing. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bi-Curious-George-Unauthorized-Andrew-Simonian/dp/1604332832