What means to ‘sound gay’ - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• GAY HISTORY: THE WEIRD SCIENCE OF HOMOPHOB WHO TURN OUT TO BE GAY
• WEIRD SCIENCE: A GAY XXX PARODY
• WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’

GAY HISTORY: THE WEIRD SCIENCE OF HOMOPHOB WHO TURN OUT TO BE GAY

On top of that there's swearg--"s--t, " "d--k, " "bimbo, " "wanker, " and homophobic slurs ("f----t"). 2017 has been a banner year for the armchair psychologil theory that anti-gay public figur are secretly gay themselv.

Never md the long-nng jok and mem about Mike Pence verg up some secret homosexual inty. As more rmatn about their alleged miseds emerg—Goodman now stands acced of fondlg an 18-year-old man at a nservative event, and of pursug several young gay men—there is a certa grim tharsis seeg such hypocrisy exposed.

WEIRD SCIENCE: A GAY XXX PARODY

The LGBT muny will never tire of brgg up the long history of Republin gay sex sndals every time new—and creasgly unsurprisg—allegatns emerge, precisely bee they seem to be so predictable hdsight.

WHAT MEANS TO ‘SOUND GAY’

(As GQ sarstilly put rponse to the Goodman news: “Anti-Gay Oh Republin Rigns After, Surprise, Havg Sex wh a Man the State Capol. A 2012 study the Journal of Personaly and Social Psychology generated a fair number of headl that year—cludg The New York Tim’ “Homophobic? Maybe You’re Gay”—for suggtg that some self-avowed straight people who showed signs of same-sex sire were more likely to hold discrimatory attus.

Ryan—wrote their acpanyg New York Tim opn piece that they had asked 784 llege stunts to rate their sexual orientatn on a 10-pot sle and then told them to sort “imag and words ditive of hetero- and homosexualy” to tegori. The rult: The rearchers isolated a “subgroup of participants”—more than “20 percent of self-scribed highly straight dividuals”—who “dited some level of same-sex attractn, ” and who were “signifintly more likely than other participants to favor anti-gay polici; to be willg to assign signifintly harsher punishments to perpetrators of petty crim if they were prumed to be homosexual; and to exprs greater implic hostily toward gay subjects.

“Th our rearch suggts that some who oppose homosexualy do tacly harbor same-sex attractn, ” they nclud.

As Netta Weste, the study’s lead thor, said a prs release, they “may be threatened by gays and lbians bee homosexuals remd them of siar tennci wh themselv. It’s ntually ced whenever seems to apply to a homophobic figure, like after Pulse nightclub gunman Omar Mateen was mored to have equented the LGBT nightclub the buildup to the shootg.

As Science magaze reported after Pulse, there is a “stterg of rearch” that suggts “some nflicted gay men might ed be homophobic, ” like a small 1996 study the Journal of Abnormal Psychology that measured penile aroal and found a lk between “homophobia” and “homosexual aroal.

But the “secretly gay homophobe” theory is far om beg a plete explanatn of anti-LGBT prejudice Amerin polics. Jt bee that 20-percent subgroup is “signifintly more likely” to tout an anti-LGBT iology don’t mean we n assume someone like Mike Pence is likely to be verg up a secret past as a gay clubgoer jt bee of his anti-LGBT track rerd. On Twter, edian Cameron Esposo, herself a lbian, has cricized the homophobic unrton of the nstant Mike Pence jok—and has lled out the media for beg seemgly more terted the salac “homophobe ught havg gay sex” story than the mistreatment of LGBT people wr large.