Senior Labour figures have become embroiled in row over whether giraffes are gay.

Shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler was giving a speech about LGBT teaching in schools.

She said: “90% of giraffes are gay. Let’s just accept people for who they are and live as our true, authentic selves.

“Being who you are is not a disease.”

But one of Jeremy Corbyn’s senior advisers Lachlan Stuart said she was “delivering foolish words”, and even suggested it was homophobic.

He said the way male giraffes behaved with each other was “not gay behaviour” because “there’s no romance. No courtship. No affection. No pair bonding’.

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He said studies show male giraffes only engage in sexual activity with younger males to “assert dominance”.

Mr Stuart said: “Is there any truth to this claim? In short, no, there isn’t.

“It is a ludicrous, offensive, homophobic claim… do you get why it’s completely f****** offensive? It’s akin to describing Deliverance [the 1972 American thriller film] as a ‘gay romance’ because the effete city boys are put in their place by the locals by getting beaten and then raped.

“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.

“Stay in your lanes, boys, because you don’t get this at all.”

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