Pride in Nature LGBTQ+ tour

Pride in Nature is back at the Museum of Zoology on Sunday 29 November, with another date on Sunday 13 December. It's a guided tour through the museum's collections, led by volunteers who pull together their own selection of stories about gender and sex in the animal world.

The whole thing starts from the idea that animals don't do sexual identity; they just do sex. From there, the guides draw on examples like same-sex sexual behaviour in giraffes and penguins, and bring in the work of the zoologists studying these things, to ask how the labels and categories humans give animals affect the way we interact with the natural world. It's as much about how we talk about nature as it is about the animals themselves.

The tour is part of the University of Cambridge Museums' Bridging Binaries programme, and it runs throughout the year, with more dates added every few months. It's aimed at an adult audience, though children and teenagers are welcome to come along with adults. Each walk lasts 45 minutes, from 13:00 to 13:45, and the guides meet visitors in the Whale Entrance Hall about five to ten minutes before it starts.

Tickets are free, and the museum is at Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.