“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 physiological studies conducted by scientists
at the University of Rochester, the University of Essex, England, and
the University of California in Santa Barbara conclude.
“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, 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,” says co-author Richard Ryan.
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