Homophobia is an aversn to gay or homosexual people or their liftyle or culture; also behavr or an act based on this aversn.
Contents:
- I'M AAID THAT I'M GAY
- THE 'GAY FEAR' MEME IS LEAVG 'QUEER EYE' FANS IN STCH
- THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT
I'M AAID THAT I'M GAY
"It’s illegal to be gay over 70 untri the world; the untri LGBTQ people lerally fear for their liv." * gay fear *
There are many gay men who say "I'm not part of the scene" -- men who hate gay bars and, prumably, crowds of queer people general.
Internalized homophobia -- self-shamg, self-hatred -- leads many gay men, and many queer people general, to recreate their closets long after they're "out" by shunng others, particularly those they nsir "flamboyant. But you mt spend time wh others, whether that means havg a group of gay movie iends or queer gamers or playg on a gay sports team. This parable piece by lbian wrer Sarah Prager go through the lp of great gays who changed the world -- om ventor Alan Turg to Tchaikovsky, the poser, to the Renaissance pater and ventor Leonardo da Vci.
Read the numbers: In four years, more than 5, 596 people the Uned Stat had died of AIDS, many of them gay men and transgenr women. Fd a gay elr who's been where you are and r for your well-beg, someone who unrstands you and never pass judgment, someone who lets you make the mistak you need to make. There would be no ternalized self-hatred if no one had ever told you that beg gay is wrong, or that gay sex is disgtg, or that gay men n't feel real love, or that beg transgenr is fake, or that beg nonbary is a mental illns or a ll for attentn.
THE 'GAY FEAR' MEME IS LEAVG 'QUEER EYE' FANS IN STCH
The gay/trans panic legal fense legimiz and exc vlent and lethal behavr agast members of the LGBTQ+ muny. The fense is fed by the LGBT Bar as “a legal strategy which asks a jury to fd that a victim’s sexual orientatn or genr inty is to blame for the fendant’s vlent reactn, cludg murr.” * gay fear *
If you thk a word like "gay" or "queer" works for you right now (aga, don't have to work for you forever -- labels do not e wh lifetime ntracts) and you're not ready to tell everyone, simply say out loud to yourself. The term homophobia was first scribed 1972 by Gee Weberg, and fed as an irratnal fear, hatred, and tolerance of beg close quarters wh homosexual men and women. More obv forms of homophobia clu laws and regulatns geared towards discrimatn and unrmg the basic human rights of lbian, gay, and bisexual people.
THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT
* gay fear *
And though not as physilly threateng, anti-gay slurs and lack of acceptance of sexual mori to muni and fai n also have vastatg psychologil nsequenc on gay and bisexual people. For dividuals who belong to other mory groups—such as racial or ethnic mori—the effect of homophobia is signifintly amplified. Some theori dite this is bee some ethnic mory groups themselv might not be acceptg of homosexualy which uld, turn, lead to ternalized homophobia.
Although there was a time which homosexualy was nsired a mental illns, is now clear through s of rearch that beg a sexual mory and of self is not a mental illns. Rather, the experienc of homophobia, discrimatn, and stigma that LGB people are exposed to put the dividuals at a higher risk of velopg mental health issu due to chronic strs associated wh the experienc. Perhaps one of the first rearch studi to shed light on this topic was Ilan Meyer’s landmark 1995 paper on the impact of “mory strs” on gay men livg New York Cy.
The rults of the study monstrated that dividuals who belong to a sexual mory group wh a heteronormative society are prone to high rat of ternalized homophobia (lack of acceptance of one's own sexualy), stigma, and experienc of discrimatn and vlence. For stance, a gay man who liv a state wh no legal protectns agast discrimatn the workplace is likely to be very worried about losg his job if his inty is revealed. As laws around the untry change and build toward more acceptance of lbian, gay, and bisexual people, is possible that the effect of mory strs may lsen.