So, you thk you're straight, but you still feel a lot of weird guilt and anxiety when gay stuff up nversatn for no discernible reason? Or maybe the thought of beg wh someone of the same genr as you sends you to a weird panic? Could you be gay, but nial? Well, here's this handy ltle quiz ma jt for you!
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GAY MEN AND DENIAL
* gay man in denial *
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. The prejudice of homophobia may also stem om thorarian parents, particularly those wh homophobic views as well, the rearchers add.
STRAIGHT WOMEN AND THEIR GAY HBANDS
The rearch, published the April 2012 issue of the Journal of Personaly and Social Psychology, reveals the nuanc of prejudic like homophobia, which n ultimately have dire nsequenc.
"Sometim people are threatened by gays and lbians bee they are fearg their own impuls, a sense they 'doth prott too much, '" Ryan told LiveScience. Ryan utned, however, that this lk is only one source of anti-gay sentiments. For the implic measure, stunts had to tegorize words and pictur flashed onto a puter screen to "gay" or "straight" groups.
Words clud "gay, " "straight, " "homosexual" and "heterosexual, " while the pictur showed straight and gay upl. The rearchers said quicker reactn time for "me" and "gay, " and a slower associatn of "me" wh "straight" would dite said an implic gay orientatn. [Why Gay Parents May Be the Bt Parents].