FRONTLINE exam anti-gay attus, fears,and hatred through the story of the life and ath of Billy Jack Gaher, who was murred bee he was gay. This report prob the mix of gay acceptance and ntempt, gay tolerance and prejudice that exists wh many Amerins about homosexuals and program clus a homophobia quiz, rearch on the roots of homophobia,what fuels anti-gay bashers,and the scientific rearch to possible blogil and geic termants for homosexualy.
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ASSLT ON GAY AMERI
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homophobia's roots ·. a gay gene? anti-gay vlence ameri ·.
" Why have gays like Gaher and Matthew Shepard bee the targets of such btaly? On Febary 15, nearly one year after the Gaher murr, FRONTLINE rrponnt Forrt Sawyer explor the roots of homophobia Ameri-as a talyst for hate crim and as a phenomenon that permeat our society-and asks how the attus, beliefs, and fears ntribute to the recent rise vlence agast gays. Richard Pryor was bisexual and raised money for a gay rights anizatn.
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Dave Chapelle didn’t jt offend the LGBTQ muny wh his latt standup special. He betrayed the legacy of the Black ic tradn he hered. Some of the most inic Black edians were eher gay or affirmed them their performanc. * gay frontline *
Eddie Murphy, for example, unleashed a blisterg seri of homophobic slurs his early standup rout – performanc for which he’s sce apologized. In 1977, Pryor headled a gay rights fundraiser where he talked on stage about enjoyg sex wh a man. Pryor’s bisexualy was well-known among his iends, though some who were close to him still ny that he was gay.
“Wh that nfsn, Pryor beme perhaps the first major Hollywood celebry to talk graphilly about his own posive experience of gay sex – and certaly the first to do so ont of tens of thoands of people, ’ acrdg to an excerpt om the book, “Beg Richard Pryor” by Stt Sl. Raey sang openly about lbian relatnships and cross-drsg the early 20th century when homosexualy was seen as a form of mental illns.
As one cric asked, “What is Dave Chappelle’s problem wh gay people? Black ics like Pryor weren’t perfect when me to their sexual polics (Pryor end his gay rights fundraiser by gog after Whe gay people and tellg the crowd to, “kiss my happy, rich Black ass.
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But the sle n be ed as a rough but worthwhile measure of heterosexual attus toward homosexuals. In general, the higher the sre, the greater the negative attus and beliefs about homosexuals. At the end, you n pare your sre to the participants' the Adams study to see whether you ranked as more or ls homophobic.
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For much of this century, homosexualy was fed by the medil and scientific muny as a psychiatric disorr. In the last several s, however, "homosexualy" has been removed om the diagnostic manual of disorrs, and rearch emphasis has shifted to the other si of the problem: the study of the negative, sometim pathologil, reactns to homosexuals by heterosexuals. The term "homophobia" has gaed currency as a one-word summary of this wispread problem.
Sce the early 1980's, scientists attemptg to measure homophobia have veloped a number of different homophobia sl and qutnnair. In 1996, as part of his study on homophobia, Dr. Henry Adams and his lleagu at the Universy of Geia veloped their own "Homophobia Sle" by modifyg sl ed by other rearchers earlier studi.
It's a 25-em qutnnaire "signed to measure your thoughts, feelgs and behavrs wh regards to homosexualy. Below, FRONTLINE has reproduced this "Wright, Adams, and Bernat Homophobia Sle. " It is not a perfect measure of anti-gay feelgs or ias, and is not a predictor of potential for anti-gay vlence.