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Contents:

• CLOSETED GAY MEN – WHY ARE THEY STILL THERE?
• HOMOPHOB LIKELY TO BE CLOSET GAYS, STUDY FDS
• ARE HOMOPHOB REALLY GAY?

CLOSETED GAY MEN – WHY ARE THEY STILL THERE?

I was jt readg this post on r/atheism, which brgs up the faiar accatn: policians and preachers who are anti-gay are really jt closeted gays themselv. Sure, you might not agree wh what some anti-gay person is sayg, but to say to them "You're gay, therefore you're wrong" is que the oppose of tolerance. Cred: Getty ImagHomophob should nsir a ltle self-reflectn, suggts a new study fdg those dividuals who are most hostile toward gays and hold strong anti-gay views may themselv have same-sex sir, albe unrver on.

The rearch, published the April 2012 issue of the Journal of Personaly and Social Psychology, reveals the nuanc of prejudic like homophobia, which n ultimately have dire nsequenc.

"Sometim people are threatened by gays and lbians bee they are fearg their own impuls, a sense they 'doth prott too much, '" Ryan told LiveScience. " To gge homophobia a hoehold, stunts rpond to ems such as, "It would be upsettg for my mom to fd out she was alone wh a lbian" or "My dad avoids gay men whenever possible.

HOMOPHOB LIKELY TO BE CLOSET GAYS, STUDY FDS

Participants dited their own level of homophobia, both overt and implic; word-pletn tasks, stunts wrote down the first three words that me to md when prompted wh some of the words' letters. "In a predomately heterosexual society, 'know thyself' n be a challenge for many gay dividuals, " lead thor Netta Weste, a lecturer at the Universy of Essex the Uned Kgdom, said a statement.

Those participants who reported their heterosexualy spe havg hidn same-sex sir were also the most likely to show hostily toward gay dividuals, cludg self-reported anti-gay attus, endorsement of anti-gay polici and discrimatn such as supportg harsher punishments for homosexuals.

ARE HOMOPHOB REALLY GAY?

People nial about their own sexual orientatn, perhaps a nial fostered by thorarian and homophobic parents, may feel a threat om other gay and lbian dividuals. And 2010, proment anti-gay activist and -founr of nservative Fay Rearch Council Gee Rekers was reportedly spotted 2010 wh a male rt rented om Acrdg to news reports, the rt nfirmed Rekers is gay.

It might be hard to image now, wh gay officers marchg pri paras and big-cy squads havg dited LGBT liaisons, but The Advote wrote 1973 that gay people had e to thk of police "as their natural enemi. "Most notor among chiefs was Los Angel's Ed Davis, who once pared gay people to lepers and opposed the cy's first pri para 1970, sayg, "As far as I'm ncerned, grantg a para perm to a group of homosexuals to para down Hollywood Boulevard would be the same as givg a perm to march to a group of thiev and murrers. " Davis told the Christopher Street Wt Associatn that he "would much rather celebrate Gay Conversn Week, which I will gladly sponsor when the medil practners this untry fd a way to nvert gays to heterosexuals.