Daily Mail article cited previously:
Writing on his personal blog, Mr Stuart also renewed his criticisms of Dawn Butler, the shadow Equalities Minister.
The two were last year embroiled in a bizarre row when Stuart ridiculed Butler’s claims that most male giraffes are gay, something she said justified gay equality laws.
During the General Election campaign last year, Ms Butler was one of several senior figures who criticised the party’s official position on trans rights and equality law, which activists described as transphobic.
Mr Stuart revealed that in a private meeting to agree policies before the Election, Butler had voted for the very policies she later criticised.
He said: ‘Dawn, who held the portfolio responsibility and had to respond to all the proposed amendments... And Dawn just said, “Agreed”.’
29/10/2019 Guardian
'Are 90% of giraffes gay – or have their loving looks been misunderstood?
Dawn Butler’s claims regarding animal sexuality have been called ‘offensive’ and ‘homophobic’ by one of Jeremy Corbyn’s advisers. But what’s the scientific verdict?
(extract)
" A new split has emerged in the Labour party over a matter more urgent than Brexit: the sexuality of giraffes. “Ninety per cent of giraffes are gay,” Dawn Butler, the shadow secretary for women and equalities, told a PinkNews awards event earlier this month. “Let’s just accept people for who they are and live as our true, authentic selves.”
Butler’s words were meant as praise for the school curriculum, which teaches children that it is normal for people to be gay. However, Jeremy Corbyn’s senior domestic policy adviser, Lachlan Stuart, responded angrily on Twitter over what he felt it also meant about gay people. “It is a ludicrous, offensive, homophobic claim,” Stuart said, insisting instead that the same-sex physical contact observed between giraffes in the wild is “not gay behaviour” at all, but a display of dominance.
According to Stephanie Fennessy, director of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation in Namibia, Stuart is right. “While I totally agree with Dawn Butler’s comment that we should accept people for who they are, she is incorrect in her comment that giraffes are gay,” Fennessy says. “Sometimes they fake-hump each other, which is also dominance behaviour. Dogs do that as well. And when you see them necking, it’s fighting. It’s vicious. They can kill each other.” (continues)
www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2019/oct/29/99-per-cent-giraffes-gay-loving-looks-misunderstood
17/10/2019 Dawn Butler MP Shadow Minister for Women & Equalities speech at Pink News event.
(worth watching, not just for the giraffe reference but her apparent absolute dismissal of any Safeguarding or Women's Rights conflicts with gender self id policy)
"[Lachlan] Stuart called giraffes his “favourite animal,” and explained that what Butler was referring to was actually “not gay behaviour” because “there's no romance. No courtship. No affection. No pair bonding.”
Instead, Stuart said, giraffes engage in non-consensual sexual activity to establish dominance over each other.
“It's akin to describing [the 1972 movie] Deliverance as a 'gay romance' because the effete city boys are put in their place by the locals by getting beaten and then raped,” Stuart tweeted.
He added, “I'm really sick and tired now of straight, white, male, young advisers (and that's who they all are) delivering such foolish words into the mouths of people I'm supposed to respect.”
www.out.com/politics/2019/10/28/british-politicians-are-fighting-over-giraffe-sexuality