Are Homophob Really Gay? | Psychology Today

Contents:

• ARE HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE REALLY GAY AND NOT ACCEPTG IT?
• ARE HOMOPHOB REALLY GAY?
• HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, ACRDG TO REARCH
• EXPERIENC OF HOMOPHOBIA AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: RULTS OM A CROSS-SECTNAL STUDY SEVEN UNTRI

ARE HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE REALLY GAY AND NOT ACCEPTG IT?

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ARE HOMOPHOB REALLY GAY?

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HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY, ACRDG TO REARCH

A seri of studi recently published the prtig Journal of Personaly and Social Psychology found higher levels of homophobia dividuals wh unacknowledged attractns to the same sex, particularly when they grew up wh thorarian parents who also held homophobic attus. In the Universy of Rochter's prs release, Netta Weste, the study's lead thor, said, "Individuals who intify as straight but psychologil tts show a strong attractn to the same sex may be threatened by gays and lbians bee homosexuals remd them of siar tennci wh themselv.

Acrdg to the team of rearchers, this study is the first to document the role that both parentg and sexual orientatn play the formatn of anti-gay attus, cludg self-reported homophobic attus, discrimatory bias, implic hostily towards gays, and endorsement of anti-gay polici. This ngence between implic and explic measur of sexual orientatn predicted a variety of homophobic behavrs, cludg self-reported anti-gay attus, implic hostily towards gays, endorsement of anti-gay polici, and discrimatory bias such as the assignment of harsher punishments for homosexuals. "When we showed gay people, " he says, "when we elevated the voic of gay people as part of the nversatn — and I say this as someone who is gay — we wanted to show the gay people as part of a fay, the gay people as part of a workplace, the gay people this se as part of a classroom.

EXPERIENC OF HOMOPHOBIA AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN: RULTS OM A CROSS-SECTNAL STUDY SEVEN UNTRI

Dpe recent gas gay civil rights, cludg the recent US Supreme Court lgs on marriage, the overturng of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ” as well as the legalizatn of same-sex marriage many foreign untri, homophobia is alive and well both here and abroad. Recently Print Vladmir Put signed an anti-propoganda law that rulted the recent arrts of several gay Dutch tourists and may give police the right to arrrt anyone who portrays homosexuay posively cludg LGBT teachers and parents (). In a 1993 study, levels of homophobia were asssed among 64 men along wh their sexual aroal (measured by creas penile circumference) rponse to erotic vios of heterosexual, same-sex female, and same-sex male enunters.

Add this anecdote to several others cludg that of right wg polician Larry Craig, who pled guilty to lewd behavr toward other men an airport bathroom but who also champned anti-gay legislatn durg his polil reer, and Ted Haggard, lear of the famoly anti-gay Natnal Associatn of the Evangelils, who rigned after was disvered he was engagg male prostut. When people found out that Omar Mateen, the gunman of the 2016 massacre, was a regular at the Pulse nightclub and ed gay datg apps, left wh more qutns than actual pos the qutn: Are homophobic people actually homosexuals themselv? Related Stori From YourTango:While there isn't any ncrete proof that homophobic people who go on the vlent benrs are gay themselv, acrdg to Ryan:"People who have homophobic attus, who are more prejudiced or discrimatory agast gay people, are themselv more likely to have a discrepancy between their unnsc attractns to same-sex partners than what they are aware of.

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