Are Homophobic People Really Gay and Not Acceptg It? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE
• GAY RIGHTS
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• ARE HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE REALLY GAY AND NOT ACCEPTG IT?
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH WEIGHS ON STRAIGHT ACTORS GAY ROL AHEAD OF ‘POWER OF THE DOG’ RELEASE

HOCD is not to be misnsted wh nial or sexual reprsn, as those who are reprsg their te sexualy know that they are attracted to the same sex but ph away, often due to shame that om livg a heteronormative and homophobic world. The realy is that we live a very heteronormative world, which is reflected through mastream media showsg heterosexual relatnships, lack of diversy polics, relig groups that nounce homosexualy and claim—wh zero evince—that gay folks will go to hell, and laws that enable discrimatn agast the LGBTQIA+ muny.

Cred: Getty ImagHomophob should nsir a ltle self-reflectn, suggts a new study fdg those dividuals who are most hostile toward gays and hold strong anti-gay views may themselv have same-sex sir, albe unrver on. Those participants who reported their heterosexualy spe havg hidn same-sex sir were also the most likely to show hostily toward gay dividuals, cludg self-reported anti-gay attus, endorsement of anti-gay polici and discrimatn such as supportg harsher punishments for homosexuals.

GAY RIGHTS

And 2010, proment anti-gay activist and -founr of nservative Fay Rearch Council Gee Rekers was reportedly spotted 2010 wh a male rt rented om Acrdg to news reports, the rt nfirmed Rekers is gay. The ia that homophobia men is a unter-reactn to their own unwanted attractn to other men has s roots psychoanalysis – where's 's nsired a psychodynamic fense – and is possibly supported by anecdotal evince, most recently reports that the perpetrator of the horrific homophobic massacre at an Orlando gay club was himself gay. But 's worth heedg the utns noted on Science of Us yterday where journalist Cari Romm noted that "ternalized homophobia almost never manifts self as vlence" her article head The Myth of the Vlent, Self-Hatg Gay Homophobe.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

However, if reprsed gay impuls are a mon motivator for homophobic attus, this would be eful to know om the perspective of batg homophobia, and for helpg such people e to terms wh their own sexualy.

For stance, supportg the theory, a study om 1996 volvg dozens of men who self-intified as heterosexual found that some of those wh homophobic attus got an erectn rponse to gay porn, but the men who weren't homophobic did not.

On the other hand, a later study that measured time spent lookg at imag of men kissg found no evince that some homophobic men are gay at a subnsc level – fact, some of the homophobic men seemed to have an implic aversn to such a new, small study The Journal of Sexual Medice has bed a range of techniqu, cludg eye trackg, to show that a subset of homophobic men who self-intify as heterosexual do seem to have an impulsive, tomatic attractn to other men.

ARE HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE REALLY GAY AND NOT ACCEPTG IT?

On half the trials, an image of a gay male uple subsequently appeared on the si of the screen toward which the participants were movg the manik; on the other trials, a heterosexual uple appeared this posn. Relatively faster performance when the task volved movg the manik toward the gay male uple was taken as a sign of implic attractn, rather than aversn, toward homosexual that, the rearchers tracked the eye movements of the participants as they looked at and rated the pleasantns of imag of gay male and heterosexual upl.

The men were told to look at the imag for as long as necsary to make their judgments, and longer time spent lookg specifilly at the fac and bodi of the gay male upl was taken by the rearchers as another sign of attractn to men. Also, whereas there was no lk between the amount of impulsive attractn the non-homophobic men showed toward men (on the manik task) and the time they spent lookg at the imag of male gay upl, there was a lk among the highly homophobic participants – those who showed a greater impulsive attractn to men also tend to look longer at the imag of gay upl than heterosexual suggts the homophobic men's alleged impulsive attractn to men was also affectg their lookg behavr, although whether 's fair to terpret this creased lookg at gay men as attractn, rather than, say, cursy, is batable.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

That is, among the highly homophobic men, those who showed signs of implic attractn to men the manik task also tend to give higher pleasantns ratgs to the imag of gay male upl, but not to the imag of heterosexual rearchers acknowledged their fdgs are limed by their small sample size, and that would have been eful to measure strs and anxiety to see how this was affectg the rults. For stance, 's possible that for homophobic men the strs of lookg at gay imagery has the ironic effect of creasg the fluence of their implic attractn to men on their behavur – a strs effect that would be absent non-homophobic men, hence their implic attractn not beg relevant to their lookg behavur.

The limatns and plexi asi, the rearchers nclud that their fdgs provi more evince nsistent wh the ia that "some men high homophobia ed have a sexual tert toward homosexual stimuli, whereas others do not" and that they "provi a better unrstandg of the psychologil procs volved the procsg of erotic gay material among men high homophobia... Whereas stg cisgenr actors transgenr rol has recently fallen out of popular practice – LGBTQ media advocy anizatn GLAAD says stg this way “perpetuat this belief that trans people aren’t real” – there is not a siar nsens when to actors playg gay characters.