Elliott Kennerson

In 1972, married biologists George Hunt and Molly Warner make an unprecedented discovery while studying seagulls on one of California’s Channel Islands. To their surprise, a great number of the nesting pairs they observe are both female. George and Molly’s research on “lesbian seagulls” quickly triggers both outrage and jubilation\ in a nation grappling with the rise of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, even as it threatens to tear apart their own relationship.

In 1972, married biologists George Hunt and Molly Warner make an unprecedented discovery while studying seagulls on one of California’s Channel Islands. To their surprise, a great number of the nesting pairs they observe are both female. George and Molly’s research on “lesbian seagulls” quickly triggers both outrage and jubilation\ in a nation grappling with the rise of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, even as it threatens to tear apart their own relationship.

In 1972, married biologists George Hunt and Molly Warner make an unprecedented discovery while studying seagulls on one of California’s Channel Islands. To their surprise, a great number of the nesting pairs they observe are both female. George and Molly’s research on “lesbian seagulls” quickly triggers both outrage and jubilation\ in a nation grappling with the rise of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, even as it threatens to tear apart their own relationship.