ANOTHER Study Confirms Homophobes are Actually Damaged, Closeted Homosexuals

Posted by Kevin Farrell on Apr 9, 2012 in Health | 13 comments

Describing the loudest homophobes as “at war with themselves” and projecting internal conflicts outward on those who threaten then by reminding them of something with, researchers from the University of Rochester, the University of Essex, England, and the University of California Santa Barbara have published the results of a study confirming that homophobes are in fact deeply closeted homosexuals themselves.

Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies demonstrates.

“Individuals who identify as straight but in psychological tests show a strong attraction to the same sex may be threatened by gays and lesbians because homosexuals remind them of similar tendencies within themselves,” explains Netta Weinstein, a lecturer at the University of Essex and the study’s lead author.

“In many cases these are people who are at war with themselves and they are turning this internal conflict outward,” adds co-author Richard Ryan, professor of psychology at the University of Rochester who helped direct the research.

Four different experiments were used by researchers in the study, and the entire report from ScienceDaily is absolutely fascinating. Sure, it confirms what most of us have guessed all along, but it sure is nice see actual science back us up here.

Go read it right now.

This is hardly the first study of its kind. One of our biggest stories ever here at UB concerns a study which measured the sexual arousal of homophobes while they watch gay porn. You can guess the results for yourself.

Does all of this homophobes-are-secretly-gay science sound about right to you?

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SWZ64IB5Y6WG3UCIMU6CSU3BXY lucifer osiris arnold

DUH!!! Remember this quote? ” what you see in me you see in yourself”.
Anonymous

Homophobia IS NOT the fear of gays; it’s the fear of BEING gay!! Knew it all along!!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=580827090 Daniel Leyva

While I agree with this article 100%, this is not news. It saddens me that there is a need for more studies to show something that we have known all along: That those who hate homosexuals or accuse homosexuals to be “perverts” are in fact people with attraction to the same sex. In recent days, we have seen a string of republicans claiming a “change of heart” from being homophobes to be “more accepting” … yet, what they are reacting to is the fact that they FINALLY realized that homosexuality is co natural to human beings and that you can not stop being gay. Also, that they have been lied to by conservatives and some bad “christians” since, real Christians don’t hate anyone.

Anonymous

Regarding the issue of repeated studies to show something that we know as common knowledge…. All of science is based on repeated studies. If a study is done and comes to a conclusion, that conclusion MUST be tested again and again to prove that the conclusion was not a fluke, or a fault of that study, or the scientist’s bias. In the 40′s people would use information showing that gays were more likely to commit suicide and come to the conclusion that being gay leads to depression. That conclusion has been restudied many times and modern science, thanks to retesting, has shown that conclusion to be inaccurate in terms of causality goes.

Long story short, science and it’s habit of retesting has been a huge contributor to increasing tolerance, and these “change of heart” moments. Without these repeatedly reached conclusions and evidence, I believe our struggle would be significantly more difficult.

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Anonymous

It doesn’t exactly give it legitimacy, eh?
http://www.facebook.com/marianne.ibbotson Marianne Ibbotson

Unicorn Booty is like the gossipy tabloid of gay news sites. It’s entertaining to read (and I do enjoy this site), but it’ll certainly never be a shining beacon of quality journalism.

http://twitter.com/Reset20Keith Keith Straley

The question isn’t does it sound right to us, but rather, will it ever matter to them?
Bane

It’s been obvious to everyone that some homophobes are in the closet. However, I don’t think we should allow this research to let us accuse EVERY homophobe of being gay. That’s just going to make them, and the situation, worse, plus, it didn’t say that every homophobe is closeted. It undermines our position in the eyes of potential supporters when we stoop to their level by calling them all gay just because they hate us. We should always take the high road. If it makes them feel better about themselves, somehow, by being homophobic, it’ll lead them down a path that’s going to allow them to screw themselves up more than they’ll screw up anyone else. If we start calling all of them closeted because of the research, it could simply be because it makes us feel better just as it makes them feel better to be homophobic. Basically, two wrongs don’t make a right. Two wrongs actually make you seem like you are from the Right. It’s an interesting study that can help us deal with this problem in a mature way, but I know a lot of people are going to want to us it as a weapon when it should be used as simply confirmation that we need to find more ways to help people who are having that internal struggle deal with that struggle.
http://www.facebook.com/self.sufficiently.challenged JC Anderson

I know I’m a damaged gay, even so much that a rarely feel good being gay anymore. I sometimes wonder if that’s equated with homophobia?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Andre-Washington/100001692943965 Andre’ Washington

hmmm…i’m confused…how does, “Individuals who identify as straight but in psychological tests show a strong attraction to the same sex..” mean that those individuals are gay? Or, well, only gay? Isn’t it possible that some of those individuals are Bi-Sexual or even gay transsexuals (straight)? The only thing i’d think is unequivocal is that people who feel the need to judge others in hurtful ways likely have psychological problems and are trying to deal with their own negative feelings and perceptions by hurting others. Well, except sociopaths since they hurt others because other people don’t really “exist” to them. Oh, and Sadist who just enjoy hurting people. But I learned that in elementary school…did they really need to write a paper about it, or better yet wasn’t there one written already? I’m sure Frued wrote something along those lines…
http://profile.yahoo.com/CKDVH6FYJMDK2FINL7AUBBGAGU Chris C

Usually the most vocal homophobes are total bottoms, you know, Little Nelly Helium Heels, …At least that has been my experience with the “straight” haters who ended up in my bed..
(It’s not gay if you don’t kiss)…LOL!!!
DesertSun59

Duh.

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