Relign and Acceptance of Gays | Psychology Today

Contents:

• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• RELIGN AND ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• GAY: RELIGN
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• RELIG AFFILIATN, INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA, AND MENTAL HEALTH LBIANS, GAY MEN, AND BISEXUALS

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns. ”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove.

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person. “The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people.

WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman. However, non-affirmg relig beliefs about same-sex attractn or genr inty (and siarly non-LGBT iendly ngregatns) n actually exacerbate mory strs, specifilly ternalized homophobia, which self is associated wh creased suicidal thoughts. My clients and my rearch rponnts who are eher lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr (LGBT) or love someone who is, have shared wh me the paful nflicts they face as they fear that their relign will not allow them to accept their children or themselv.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

Consirg that the Catholic Church and members of fundamentalist Christian church and Jewish tradns have been the most outspoken opponents of gay rights, is perhaps not surprisg that LGBT people and their fai intify relign as a major obstacle acceptg homosexualy and transgenr inti, eher themselv or a fay member. In addn to s admonn agast homosexualy, Levic also has passag that perm fathers to sell their dghters to slavery (21:7), prohib men om shavg their beards (19:27), and ll for the ath of anyone who works on the Sabbath (Exod.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said.

”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

Natnal Organizatns: GLADD: (clud bee they are a good rource for relig gay muni)The Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) amplifi the voice of the LGBT muny by empowerg real people to share their stori, holdg the media acuntable for the words and imag they prent, and helpg grassroots anizatns munite effectively. Rencilg Mistri NetworkUCC Coaln for LGBT Concerns The Coaln provis support and sanctuary to all our lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr sisters and brothers, their fai and iends; advot for their full cln church and society; and brgs Christ's affirmg msage of love and jtice for all Coaln for LGBT Concerns UU Wele And EqualyUnarian Universalist ngregatns extend a warm wele to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) dividuals, fai, and muni.

Affirmatn More Light Prbyterians: “Followg the risen Christ, and seekg to make the Church a te muny of hospaly, the missn of More Light Prbyterians is to work for the full participatn of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people of fah the life, mistry and wns of the Prbyterian Church (USA). "Metropolan Communy ChurchInternatnal Organizatns:Salaam Canada: Salaam is an anizatn dited to Mlims who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual/ transgenr and or tersex, as well as those qutng their sexual orientatn or genr inty, their fai and iends.

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. Veterans’ ttimoni “give shockg evince of a culture of homophobia, and of bullyg, blackmail and sexual asslts, abive vtigatns to sexual orientatn and sexual preference, disgraceful medil examatns, cludg nversn therapy, ” the report said. “From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, ” Holm ban on homosexualy was abandoned 2000, when the European Court of Human Rights led favor of four service personnel who were vtigated and then discharged bee of their sexualy.

RELIGN AND ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS

The data may unr-state acceptance of homosexualy (bee the data is om 2007), but 1) parisons of groups to recent on same-sex marriage suggt that the change is small, and 2) the relative differenc between relig groups remas the same. E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.

) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy. Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power. In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.

In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women. In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

In the 1970s and ’80s, gay polil anizatns proliferated, particularly the Uned Stat and Europe, and spread to other parts of the globe, though their relative size, strength, and succs—and toleratn by thori—varied signifintly. Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons. This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat.

At the lol and natnal levels, the number of openly gay policians creased dramatilly durg the 1990s and 2000s, and 2009 Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir beme prime mister of Iceland, which ma her the world’s first openly gay head of ernment.

In Ai, Asia, and Lat Ameri, openly gay policians have had only limed succs wng office; notable electns to natnal legislatur clud Patria Jiménez Flor Mexi (1997), Mike Waters South Ai (1999), and Clodovil Hernans Brazil (2006). Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage). Ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (1993–2011), which had permted gay and lbian dividuals to serve the ary if they did not disclose their sexual orientatn or engage homosexual activy; the repeal effectively end the ban on homosexuals the ary.

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

Although such fdgs are not variable across all dimensns of religsy and mental health out (Ano & Vasncell, 2005; Ellison, Boardman, Williams, & Jackson, 2001; Smh, McCullough, & Poll, 2003), the preponrance of the evince shows that multiple maniftatns of religsy have salutary effects on mental health, cludg ls prsn and psychologil distrs (Chatters et al., 2008; Ellison, 1995; Ellison & Flannelly, 2009; Hettler & Cohen, 1998; van Olphen et al., 2003; Ellison et al., 2001), and greater life satisfactn, personal happs, and psychologil well-beg (Ellison, 1991; Krse, 2004; Ellison et al., 2001; Wter, Stock, Okun, & Harg, 1985) is religsy associated wh better mental health out among lbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGBs)? Ined, overg ternalized homophobia is an important velopmental task the g out procs that LGB dividuals unrgo and is seen by clicians as a necsary step toward achievg good mental health and well-beg (Eliason & Schope, 2007).

Internalized homophobia has been lked to a host of negative out, cludg anxiety, prsn, suicidal iatn, sexual risk-takg, problems timacy, and lower well-beg and overall self-teem (Frost & Meyer, 2009; Herek, Gillis, & Cogan, 2009; Herek & Glunt, 1995; Meyer, 1995; Meyer & Dean, 1998; Rowen & Mallm, 2002; Williamson, 2000) LGB people growg up non-affirmg relig settgs, relig teachgs n be an important part of their socializatn to antigay attus and stigma. In the exceptn, Lease, Horne, and Noffsger-Frazier (2005) showed a sample of Whe LGBs currently volved anized fah groups that exposure to more affirmg settgs predicted lower ternalized homophobia; turn, lower ternalized homophobia predicted better mental health out. ’s (2005) fdg, suggtg that non-affirmg settgs may have a signifint effect promotg ternalized homophobia among LGBs (Wagner, Serafi, Rabk, & Remien, 1994; Harris, Cook, & Kashubeck-Wt, 2008; Herek et al., 2009) is reason to believe that the relatnship between relig affiliatn and ternalized homophobia among LGBs may vary by race and ethnicy bee religsy self vari across race and ethnic groups the U.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

In fact, although evince clearly pots to greater religsy among Latos and Blacks pared wh Wh, evince also suggts Whe evangelil church provi the most homophobic worship settgs (Kubicek et al., 2009; Pew, 2007; Pew, 2008; Pew, 2010; Reimer & Park, 2001). To the extent the race/ethnic patterns of relig attendance seen the general populatn also occur among LGBs, then Black and Lato LGBs would be more equently exposed to homophobic msag relig settgs than Wh bee of their greater level of affiliatn wh relig anizatns, and therefore would be subject to greater levels of ternalized homophobia than Whe LGBs.

As a tt of this specificy of the effect, we hypothize that attendance non-affirmg relig settgs will be related to ternalized homophobia but not to global also hypothize that Black and Lato LGBs will have greater attendance non-affirmg relig settgs pared wh Wh and, as a rult, Black and Lato LGBs will have higher levels of ternalized homophobia than Whe LGBs.

We base our hypothis on mory strs theory, which suggts that a harmful social environment (non-affirmg settgs) will be related to greater strs exposure (ternalized homophobia), which, turn, will be related to adverse mental health out. Prospective participants pleted brief screeng forms at the venu and were eligible if they were between 18–59 years old, had lived New York Cy for at least two years, self-intified as lbian, gay, or bisexual; Black, Lato, or Whe; and as male or female (which matched their genr at birth).

GAY: RELIGN

For ease of reportg, we refer to the social inti listed here but participants did not have to intify g the inty labels: they may have ed any label that suggts the social inti, such as Ain Amerin, for Black, queer or same-genr lovg, for gay, etc.

Items clu: “You have felt alienated om yourself bee of beg [lbian/gay/bisexual], ” “You have felt that beg [lbian/gay/bisexual] has allowed you to exprs a natural part of your sexual inty, ” and “You have wished that you uld velop more feelgs toward [the oppose sex].

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Compared wh Wh, Blacks and Latos reported higher levels of religsy on every measure, and both racial/ethnic mory groups were more likely than Wh to affiliate wh non-affirmg relig settgs and to attend servic more equently the Table 2 we show the mean valu of race/ethnic groups, genrs, and relig exposure groups on ternalized homophobia. Blacks and Latos had higher ternalized homophobia than Wh (but this was statistilly signifint for Latos only), men had nearly intil levels wh women, and those affiliated wh non-affirmg relig settgs had higher levels of ternalized homophobia than those affiliated wh affirmg settgs and those who never attend at all. Among LGBs attendg non-affirmg settgs, those whose attendance equency was above the median had higher levels of ternalized homophobia than those below the median (but this difference was not statistilly signifint).

RELIG AFFILIATN, INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA, AND MENTAL HEALTH LBIANS, GAY MEN, AND BISEXUALS

02Religsy and Internalized HomophobiaTo tt our hypoth, we ed ordary least squar multiple lear regrsn analys all s except one; when ttg the send step of our mediatnal hypothis we ed logistic regrsn sce the out (the hypothized mediators) were dichotomo.

Consistent wh our hypothis, participants who attend non-affirmg relig settgs had signifintly higher ternalized homophobia than those who attend affirmg settgs and those who never attend but we found no support for our hypothis regardg equency of attendance – dividuals who attend non-affirmg relig settgs more equently did not differ levels of ternalized homophobia than those who attend ls equently (Table 2). 67, were unrelated to self-teem, monstratg that the patterns regardg non-affirmg relig exposur and ternalized homophobia are specific to one’s sense of him- or herself as a gay, lbian, or bisexual person and not to global hypothized that Blacks and Latos will have higher ternalized homophobia than Wh due to greater exposure to non-affirmg relign (Table 3; exposure is fed both as affiliatn and equency). In the fal step we termed the extent to which affiliatn and equency exposur mediated the relatnship between race/ethnic group and ternalized homophobia by examg the change the race/ethnic group efficients when each hypothized mediator is add to the regrsn mol.

Th, although the difference ternalized homophobia between Blacks and Wh was not statistilly signifint, Blacks did have higher levels of ternalized homophobia than Wh and this difference was dimished when the hypothized mediators were clud the 3The associatn of race/ethnicy, ternalized homophobia and attendance non-affirmg relig settgs (N = 355)Non-affirmg affiliatnInternalized homophobiaNon-affirmg high attendanceInternalized homophobia.