Hi I'm a Zoo and I'm LGBTQ

Hi there! I'm Tarro, and I'm zoosexual. I love animals, both romantically and in other ways, and I'm lucky enough to have an amazing canine partner who I love very much. He is my world, and I couldn't imagine my life without him.
 
I'm also a couple of other things other than a zoosexual. For instance, I'm a writer, I'm a musician. I'm an avid fan of horror movies. And all of those things are well and good. But, more fittingly for the sake of Pride Month, I'm also bisexual. I've been bisexual for as long as I've been zoosexual. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people were supposed to exclusively like either boys or girls. I liked certain people more than others based on who they were, not what they wore or how long their hair was.
 
This "misunderstanding" of mine applied to animals too. Why was it that I wasn't supposed to love a dog in the same way that I might love another human? I mean, at the end of the day we're all people. Beings. Creatures that exist in this world. To me, love is just love, and that's fantastic and amazing and something to be celebrated. Isn't Pride Month just that, a celebration of love? Why should love conform to some made up rules for no apparent reason?
 
I'm an extremely proud person. I've mentioned this before, but the area that I grew up in was not especially friendly to sexualities other than heterosexuality. I know what it's like to face discrimination. I lived a life where you're judged for your sexuality. And not just in the way where the kids at school might bully you over it, but from systemic sources, and from people outside of my sphere. I've faced issues in my life due to my bisexuality that straight people would never have had to face.
 
And that sucks! But, that's also why Pride is so important. When you're made to feel small, or wrong, just because you're different, it's so easy to internalize that negativity. It can worm its way into your brain and make you think that you're less than other people because of it. Pride is the opposite of that. And, in my opinion anyway, that's why Pride isn't just a celebration, it's a feeling. A loud and boisterous one. It's messy and in your face and it's not there just to say "You're okay." It has to fight against that in-built self-negativity that comes from existing in a society that has something against you just for who you are.
 
If you break your leg, you can't fix it by just ignoring it and letting it be. I mean sure, it might heal over time. But it will never truly recover, it will never be the same. But, if you put it in a cast and you continuously take care of it until and after it heals, that will give you the best shot at a full recovery. It's not about just making the injury appear as normal, it's about taking the time to really address the wound, and doing something about the long term problems. The bigger issues.
 
 
As a zoophile, there are a lot of people out there who don't want me to be bisexual. They see me as that first thing, and decide that that's enough to revoke my ability to be queer in any capacity. And, even assuming that zoosexuality isn't a queer sexuality, which it is, that's not the way that being queer works. It's funny. I was told for so long in my life that I couldn't be bisexual because it was bad. Now, I'm getting told I can't be bisexual because I'm bad, getting told that from the other side of the aisle. I gotta say, bigotry really does taste the same no matter the source.
 
 
For these people, my identity as a bisexual combined with my "affliction" of zoosexuality is like a blight upon the queer movement in general. Queer people are allies to each other. Members of the same team. But, zoosexuals are "bad" and "wrong" and people that don't deserve the respect of being allies. They're weirdos and freaks and all the derogatory names used to insult the more "mainstream" queers not all that long ago.
 
 
And in some ways, I get why it's frustrating for them. Queer rights are being pushed back on like they haven't had in decades. Instead of constant upwards momentum, things have generally halted, if not gone backwards. Especially for trans folks out there. To people that are trying to show their good side, having a stain on their good graces can feel like an attack against the movement as a whole. But honestly? That doesn't matter to me at all. That argument is terrible. That's the same reasoning that queer transphobic people try to use to separate our trans siblings from the movement as well.
 
Our current times have shown us that the best way to dismantle the LGBTQ Pride is to attack each part of it one by one. As such, I refuse to give up a piece of myself for my other piece to get accepted. I refuse to let anyone tell me who I am, or who I'm allowed to be. I care so much about queer rights. I'll fight to the death for people's ability to exist as their true, authentic self. But I refuse to leave myself out of that cause because other queer people don't like the way that I am.
 
 
My name is Tarro. I'm a zoosexual, and also bisexual. And nothing anyone says will change that.
 
 
 
 
 
Article written (obviously) by Tarro (June 2026) 
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