Study offers solid data that extreme homophobia linked with being gay, closeted

Very interesting read, thanks for posting!

 

Makes sense actually....I think a lot of people already think this.

I know this guy from another fraternity in college that seemed obsessed with gays. Almost every conversation involved him saying "he's gay" or "he's a queer" about everyone. When he wasn't trying to start talk about other people being gay (which as I look back must have been some sort of self-validation) his conversation always evolved around the terms "fucking faggots" and "I hate those faggots". Add to that a lot of really weird sexual innuendos that a straight fraternity boy should not be so consumed with.

Last anyone heard of him he was living in San Francisco with a "friend" he met in Atlanta. "They're just good friends that hit it off" someone once said.

Yeah, someone is hittin' something alright.

Obviously, everyone that hates gays...or at least gives the appearance of it...is not some closet case--but you do have a good number that are (i.e. Ted Haggard).

I suppose it comes from some sort of self-loathing

 

I've honestly bought this theory ever since I discovered the Adams study out of Georgia, and - I can personally attest that during the stages of extreme self-loathing (related to my sexual orientation) I absolutely presented..not necessarily "homophobic," in applying to all gay men, but certainly an irrational "anti-flaming" attitude. And from reading the stories of the fine people on this site, I don't seem to be so alone in that.

It's funny, with as much crap as we give Freud, a lot of the base principles (such as with the latent homosexuality displayed in the study) of his theories do seem to have at least some credence to our behaviors...

Anyways, glad someone continued on with the Adams research :eusa_clap

 

This reminds me of the character Carl Luce in Catcher in the Rye, who was constantly keeping a "faggot list" (keep in mind "faggot" wasn't a bad word back then) and pointing out who was and wasn't gay, and why, during his schooling with Holden. I also recall my entire tenth-grade class coming to a consensus that he must be gay.

But yes, this does make sense, in that those who were raised to very strict guidelines of what is right and wrong may view anything different as wrong, especially in themselves.

 

One of my favorite columnists has a good rant about this...

 

As Shakespeare once wrote: "Methinks he doth protest too much".

See "Haggard, Ted" and "Craig, Larry" for further details.

 

One should remember to note that it does say "extreme" homophobia. So people like Brian Brown of NOM and of course the Westboro Baptist Church . But honestly, anyone who thinks Brian Brown is straight...well...get your eyes checked.

 

When I first heard about this my first thought was this :

 

I have worries that this study will cause people to assume that any homophobe is queer (since the logical capabilities of the lay person are not exactly amazing), but I feel like this study explains a lot of people fairly well. For example, it explains my mild homophobia while I was questioning...