STUDY: Yup, The Biggt Homophob Tend To Have Reprsed Gay Tennci - Queerty

Contents:

• BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH REFLECTS ON PLAYG A REPRSED GAY CHARACTER 'THE POWER OF THE DOG'
• "I REALIZED I WAS GAY": MEN WHO CAME OUT LATER IN LIFE ARE SHARG WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR THEM TO REVEAL THAT TTH AND LIVE AUTHENTILLY
• STUDY: YUP, THE BIGGT HOMOPHOB TEND TO HAVE REPRSED GAY TENNCI

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH REFLECTS ON PLAYG A REPRSED GAY CHARACTER 'THE POWER OF THE DOG'

The ia that homophobia men is a unter-reactn to their own unwanted attractn to other men has s roots psychoanalysis – where's 's nsired a psychodynamic fense – and is possibly supported by anecdotal evince, most recently reports that the perpetrator of the horrific homophobic massacre at an Orlando gay club was himself gay. But 's worth heedg the utns noted on Science of Us yterday where journalist Cari Romm noted that "ternalized homophobia almost never manifts self as vlence" her article head The Myth of the Vlent, Self-Hatg Gay Homophobe. However, if reprsed gay impuls are a mon motivator for homophobic attus, this would be eful to know om the perspective of batg homophobia, and for helpg such people e to terms wh their own sexualy.

"I REALIZED I WAS GAY": MEN WHO CAME OUT LATER IN LIFE ARE SHARG WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR THEM TO REVEAL THAT TTH AND LIVE AUTHENTILLY

For stance, supportg the theory, a study om 1996 volvg dozens of men who self-intified as heterosexual found that some of those wh homophobic attus got an erectn rponse to gay porn, but the men who weren't homophobic did not.

STUDY: YUP, THE BIGGT HOMOPHOB TEND TO HAVE REPRSED GAY TENNCI

On the other hand, a later study that measured time spent lookg at imag of men kissg found no evince that some homophobic men are gay at a subnsc level – fact, some of the homophobic men seemed to have an implic aversn to such a new, small study The Journal of Sexual Medice has bed a range of techniqu, cludg eye trackg, to show that a subset of homophobic men who self-intify as heterosexual do seem to have an impulsive, tomatic attractn to other rearchers asssed the homophobia of 38 heterosexual young men – high srers agreed strongly wh statements like "Gay men should stop shovg their liftyle down other people's throats". On half the trials, an image of a gay male uple subsequently appeared on the si of the screen toward which the participants were movg the manik; on the other trials, a heterosexual uple appeared this posn.

Relatively faster performance when the task volved movg the manik toward the gay male uple was taken as a sign of implic attractn, rather than aversn, toward homosexual that, the rearchers tracked the eye movements of the participants as they looked at and rated the pleasantns of imag of gay male and heterosexual upl.