It was something the LGBT community had suspected for years: ”homophobic attitudes are more likely to be more pronounced among those who have experienced unacknowledged attraction towards members of the same-sex.” The bully who teased you for months for being gay may probably grow up to be queerer than a three dollar bill and had strong feelings of lust for you. The Huffington Post reports the study is set to be published this month in the Journal of Personality and Society and was comprised for four separate experiments, where in each 160 college students partook, conducted in the U.S. and Germany. The findings provide brand new evidence that support ” the psychoanalytic theory that fear, anxiety, and aversion that toward gays and lesbians can grow out of a seemingly heterosexual individual’s own repressed same-sex desires.”
