Closet penguin?

[heliopsis.livejournal.com]

Browsing Café Press, I ran into T-shirts with a "closet penguin" motif in the GLBT section. I am baffled. A google search did me no good, all I got was the same T-shirts and a number of clearly irrelevant things. Usually a google search of any kink will turn up a definition on the first page.

Some speculation: perhaps a penguin is a tuxedo fetishist? Or perhaps it's a gay stay-at-home dad, alluding to March of the Penguins? Or maybe it's someone who likes sushi and swimming in cold water. I suppose it could be someone's very personal symbolism which they had no intention of ever selling publicly, but there seems to be a whole slough of offerings.

So I thought I'd ask the hep-cats in Davis Square for advice. What are the young people talking about these days?

Comments

[eeyorecol.livejournal.com]

There has been some outrage by conservatives in Illinois (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_re_us/gay_penguins_book_flap)lately about "And Tango Makes Three" (http://www.amazon.com/Notable-Childrens-Books-Younger-Readers/dp/0689878451/sr=8-1/qid=1164910798/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5352414-8320769?ie=UTF8&s=books), a book telling the true story about the two male penguins at the Central Park Zoo who adopted a fertilized egg and raised the chick as their own.

I also heard a blurb on the news last night about people claiming that the new movie "Happy Feet" also has gay penguins. Didn't read anything about that one, though.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I looked up the penguins Roy and Silo and was sad to find out that they broke up (http://www.dailydoseofqueer.com/2005/09/25/529/).