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- GAY ‘SERIAL KILLER’ FILMED HIMSELF AND ANOTHER MAN ‘DG RAPG UNNSC MAN ON NEW YEAR’S EVE’
- STUDY: IMPLIC BIAS AGAST LBIANS, GAYS DECREASG ACROSS DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS
- AM I GAY ENOUGH?
- IMPLIC BIAS AGAST LBIANS, GAYS CREASG ACROSS MOGRAPHIC GROUPS, STUDY SHOWS
GAY ‘SERIAL KILLER’ FILMED HIMSELF AND ANOTHER MAN ‘DG RAPG UNNSC MAN ON NEW YEAR’S EVE’
As I’ve grown to unrstand om my iends, fellow LGBTQ muny members, lleagu, and clicians, ternalized homophobia is what happens when we take the bias, prejudic, and hatred towards gay folks rerced by society (aka societal homophobia) and turn the bias ward back on ourselv. I should also acknowledge there is bate wh the psychologil and scientific muny as to the extent that this impacts gay and lbian dividuals and if we should e the term "ternalized homophobia" or stead nstct and redirect our attentn stead towards "more salient issu of cultural and stutnalized heterosexism. I also want to acknowledge that while this post is focg on ternalized homophobia, much of n also apply to ternalized transphobia, which has siar roots societal norms around what is normative society, but wh regards to genr.
Psychology Today blogger Joe Kort wr about this, notg that many therapists, while affirmg of their LGBTQIA clients, may not be aware of "the sid role that ternalized homophobia plays many of the people’s liv. So even if you don’t thk you are homophobic or transphobic any way, there are likely to be some unnsc bias unr the surface—jt as a product of livg a society where beg heterosexual and cisgenr is portrayed as the norm. The assumptn that gay or bisexual people are promiscuo or have many sexual partners: Some queer people may choose to have many sexual partners, some may be monogamo, and some may be on the asexual spectm or simply not have an active sex life—so, the array is pretty much the same as wh heterosexual people.
The stereotype that gay men are “feme” or that lbians are “mascule”: Certaly there are parts of gay male culture that embrace tradnally feme quali and pastim, and parts of lbian culture that embrace tradnally male quali and pastim—but when ed as a generalizatn, this is a stereotype bee don’t apply to all gay men jt bee they are gay or all lbian women jt bee they are lbians. Alleged victim tells urt how he was unaware of attacks until footage om Stephen Port's mobile phone emergedPublished: 14:05, 17 Oct 2016Updated: 16:12, 17 Oct 2016A GAY 'serial killer' filmed himself and another man rapg a ‘knocked out’ victim at a dg-fuelled New Year's Eve party, a urt heard.
STUDY: IMPLIC BIAS AGAST LBIANS, GAYS DECREASG ACROSS DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS
A new Universy of Virgia study nfirms this, showg that not only are Amerins’ nsc and unnsc bias agast lbian women and gay men creasg across all mographic groups, but the trend also appears to be acceleratg. Most importantly, nearly all mographic groups showed creas unnsc and self-reported bias over the seven-year perd, suggtg that across the board, people seem to be velopg more posive attus toward lbian and gay people fdgs were based on rults of an onle tt hosted by Project Implic, lled the “Implic Associatn Tt, ” which asked participants to answer direct qutns about their attus toward lbian and gay people as well as perform tasks that measured their unnsc attus. )For the tt related to this study, participants were shown pictur or words associated wh gay people or straight people the middle of their puter screen, such as two rtroom-style female symbols si-by-si.
Participants who have herent negative associatns wh gay people will be faster at pairg negative words wh gay people and slower at pairg posive words wh gay people, whereas participants who are genuely more acceptg will be faster at pairg posive words wh gay people and slower at pairg negative words wh gay people. Y, even "gaydar" is unnsc "official" fn acrdg to the LGBTQ Council is: an unqutned or tomatic assumptn about an dividual, ually based on posive or negative tras associated wh a group they belong to, that prevents them om treatg them as an dividual. It's the microaggrsns which n e trouble for your om our survey rponnts, here are jt a few exampl of microaggrsns which n occur LGBTQ ctomer service:“Had the owner of one venue tell my wife that she ‘looks straight as straight n be’”"Almost every hotel assum we are not together and will book to a two bed room, even when a sgle bed is specifilly requted”“Beg told you don’t act gay or look trans as if ’s an acplishment.
AM I GAY ENOUGH?
”Ever sce beme déclassé to be anti-gay—’s hard to put a date on , but some time around the start of this century—those who oppose equal treatment for gay people have ma siar efforts to avoid appearg homophobic. ) It’s the same claim that opponents of openly gay ary service ma support of “don’t ask, don’t tell”: The policy wasn’t about prejudice, but about ncerns that gay troops would harm un hn and the secury of the natn. In anonymo statements to the prs, they predicted a chaotic reactn by others while disavowg prejudice ’s a reflectn of great progrs by LGBT groups that hardly anyone wants to be associated wh the term “homophobic.
” Even gay wrers like Brandon Ambroso—who recently published an Atlantic piece tled "Beg Agast Gay Marriage Don't Make You a Homophobe"—have argued that opposg equal rights do not belie herent fear of term “homophobia” was ed the 1970s by Gee Weberg, a clil psychologist who noticed his lleagu’ irratnal and visceral feelgs toward many gay people. Intertgly, rearchers at Cornell and Yale (cludg Atlantic ntributor Pl Bloom) have also shown that nservativ, on average, experience stronger levels of disgt than liberals do, and that an overall sensivy to disgt rrelat wh anti-gay sentiment. “Our data show that disgt and polics are lked most strongly for issu of pury, such as towards homosexualy, ” the thors more strikgly, rearchers have found that people wh negative views of gay people are prone to overstate the risks that gay rights pose.
Their bras sought to avoid the gnive dissonance of holdg beliefs that nflicted wh their rearch don’t prove, disputably, that all opponents of gay rights are actually harborg feelgs of disgt toward gay people—human feelgs are more plited than that. While there is no sgle “gay gene, ” there is overwhelmg evince of a blogil basis for sexual orientatn that is programmed to the bra before birth based on a mix of geics and prenatal ndns, none of which the fet choos. Lt we fet the potential ser nsequenc of havg sex whout ndoms, I clu the latt rmatn about the health risks of ndomls sex, discsg the relative safety of HIV-posive men who bareback wh other fected Men Are Takg Sexual RisksThere are abundant theori but no five answers about why gay men take sexual risks.
IMPLIC BIAS AGAST LBIANS, GAYS CREASG ACROSS MOGRAPHIC GROUPS, STUDY SHOWS
After more than three s of safer sex msag agast the backdrop of gay men sickeng horribly and then dyg, new medil treatments have stemmed the ti of the panmic and offered real hope for longer-term survival to people wh HIV. Queer theorist Tim Dean (2000) wr: "In view of statistics on new seronversns, some AIDS tors have begun to acknowledge that, unlikely though may seem, remag HIV-negative fact pos signifint psychologil challeng to gay men" (p.
To those who have not been workg the gay men's muny for the past 25 years, this statement might seem absurd, but is te that HIV-negative gay men face unique challeng that make seem almost easier to Francis Bay area psychologist Walt Ots (1995) was one of the first mental health profsnals to qutn why gay men who had th far ped beg fected wh HIV were placg themselv at risk for beg so. The unfected men's growg visibily triggered old childhood feelgs of beg an outsir, and for some, ntributed to an acute psychologil crisis that often created a nfluence of behavrs and thought patterns that placed them at risk for ntractg have suggted that durg the '80s, gay men unnscly llud wh the general public's equatn of a gay inty wh an AIDS inty (Ots, 1995; Rof, 1996). New York social worker Steve Ball (1998) scrib how durg the height of the AIDS epimic HIV-negative gay men often found themselv the role of regiver, mourner/widower, or outsir, due to their not beg fected wh HIV.
The dynamics scribed by Ots and Ball are part of the munal and psychosocial reali that early the epimic played a role ntributg to the spread of 1988, I wrote about how fear was one large ponent of what propelled gay men to change how they were havg sex (Shernoff & Jimenez, 1988).