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More evidence that homophobia can arise from one’s own secret gay urges

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By Pat Cunningham

Several months ago, I reported HERE on a study indicating that homophobia is sometimes associated with a person’s own homosexual arousal.

And now there’s THIS:

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.

The study is the first to document the role that both parenting and sexual orientation play in the formation of intense and visceral fear of homosexuals, including self-reported homophobic attitudes, discriminatory bias, implicit hostility towards gays, and endorsement of anti-gay policies. Conducted by a team ...

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