Internalized Homophobia Research Paper

In the article, How Homophobia Hurts Everyone by Warren J. Blumenfeld, Blumenfeld describes his experience growing up as a homosexual, and how homophobia affected him, as well as his family and peers. To begin, homophobia can be separated into two different catergories, personal homophobia and interpersonal homophobia. Personal homophobia can be described as a personal belief system, or prejudice that homosexuals, bisexual and transgender people are entitled to, should be disliked or remain powerless, due to their desires. They are also sometimes seen as psychologically disturbed, genetically modified or defective and overall, unfortunate human beings. While on the other hand, interpersonal homophobia refers to the personal prejudice or bias that affects relationships within individuals. An example of interpersonal homophobia could be making a joke, name calling, or insulting certain individuals or groups. This can be either verbal, physical or intimidation related.

The Supreme Court ruled in against gay marriage after the California state elections of prop 8. This is the baseline for the views of society towards acceptance of gay marriage.

Throughout our society today, the debate of sexual orientation has been plastered throughout the media. There are many issues throughout our country that conflict with a traditional viewpoint. Day by day, awareness has been spreading about the issues facing the LGBT community. Throughout much of the reading, I have seen both sides. The side that has tormented many through discrimination and oppression as well as the side that has been liberated and is proud to fight for the rights of themselves and others.

Homophobia present in the black community has decreased over the years. Black culture is becoming more tolerant and accepting of the LGBTQA community. Churches are becoming more tolerant towards the LGBTQA community. A few decades ago, homosexuality could not be talked about in public without being shamed, however many Black celebrities are making their sexuality public, inspiring the change of mentality in the younger generations. Some of these artist include Frank Ocean, Azealia Banks, and Jason Collins. Also, the portrayal of LGBTQA persons of color in the media is becoming less stereotypical, they were portrayed as flamboyant gossipy men with feminine tendencies, however now they are represented as people that you can identify with. For

Nussbaum also believes that the stereotypical portrayal of homosexuals and the homophobia towards homosexuals is created by a disgust and that disgust is is what makes minority groups look inferior to majority groups. Nussbaum believes that “projective disgust plays no proper role in arguing for legal regulation, because of the emotion’s irrationality and its connection to stigma and hierarchy…Disgust, however, often prevents us from looking for those good reasons, creating the misleading impression that the policy has already been well defended. Turning it to legitimize polices” (Nussbaum, 20). Due to the “politics of disgust,” Nussbaum believes that homosexual couples should be given suspect classification unlike the Lawrence v. Texas

The research yielded interesting observations in participants understanding of homophobic hate crime. The findings of the research revealed that all participants were aware of the term homophobic hate crime. Participants associated homophobic hate crime with violence. However, one participant revealed a greater understanding in associating homophobic hate crime with verbal and physical abuse. The research produced varied opinions from participants in relation to the awareness of homophobic hate crime across LGBT communities. Participants indicated that not all LGBTs are aware that incidents of homophobic abuse are crimes. Furthermore, the findings of the research revealed that young people especially, remain unaware that incidents of homophobic

Heterosexism is the assumption that all people are heterosexual and that heterosexuality is superior and more desirable and are socially and culturally superior to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, Two-Spirit and queer (LGBTTQ) people. But is also the discriminations and/or prejudice against homosexuals. I think that heterosexism is like racism, in our society people discriminate and oppress people because of their race or ethnicity and is knows as racism but heterosexism is when our society discriminates against homosexuals.

Society began to rethink homosexuality in the 1960's when heterosexual psychologist George Weinberg coined the term "homophobia." Weinberg used the term to label heterosexuals' fear of being in contact of homosexuals as well as the self-loathing of homosexuals, meaning that homosexuals hated themselves for being gay. As of the new millennium, there has been a new special term that has been born to define the fear, hate and disgust that people show towards anyone's sexual orientation called "sexual prejudice." Like other types of prejudice, there are three main principals that surround sexual prejudice: it is an attitude, it is directed at social groups and its members, and it is negative as

Homophobia impacts people through a combination of institution & individual or policy & person. This is true for insurance companies and individual healthcare professionals and how policy is/isn’t enforced. This has a potentially devastating impact in accessing adequate and affordable healthcare for LGBT+ individuals because of what those rules constitute. Notably, a bygone of the Reagan era still exists: sexually active men who sleep with men are prohibited from donating blood to the Red Cross.

2015 Still No openly gay male football players in premiership, several openly gay female footballers in ladies game. How can this issue change or affect sport

Denissen, A, Saguy, A. (2014). Gendered homophobia and the contradictions of workplace discrimination for women in the building trades. Gender and Society, 28(3), 381-403. doi:10.1177/0891243213510781

The second topic I will be analyzing from C.J. Pascoe’s book is gender and more specifically the subcategory of masculinity. It is defined as “gender is a term that refers to social or cultural distinctions associated with being male or female. Gender identity is the extent to which one identifies as being either masculine or feminine.” (Little et al, 12.1). But gender identity is something different. Someone’s gender identity is an extremely important and personal thing, especially to young males who have, are constantly worried about wondering if their male peers think they are gay, and then, therefore, they might question their gender. With this comes bullying, and usually permanent and deeply emotional hurtful nicknames. When a male peer

Matthew Shepard, Wyoming, 1998. Beaten, tortured and finally dead because of his sexual orientation at just 21 years old. His murder brought to light internationally the hate crime issue in legislation. But how come some people come to hate and fear homosexuals? The roots of homophobia are still debatable in our modern society today. To be able to put an end to this anti-gay bashing, we need to pinpoint a certain thing: Is homophobia a learned behaviour? Definitely yes, homophobia is learned through religion, culture and peer groups. All the points below are related to social influences that tend to lead the individual to perceive homosexuality negatively. No one is born homophobic, they learn to be one through society’s fixed ideas that were

The search for an accurate definition for homophobia has historically been muddled; the word’s definition has been changed repeatedly throughout its existence. Homophobia is “a relatively new word, [first] emerging in the 1960s (Baird, 2007, p. 60).” In the book Society and the Healthy Homosexual by George Weinberg, he first defined the word in 1972 as ‘the dread of being at close quarters with homosexuals’. Mark Freedman later identified it as ‘extreme rage and fear reaction to homosexuals’. And finally, writer Audre Lorde turned the definition on its head, focusing on the internalized hatred of someone’s own homosexuality. In 1978, she defined the word as ‘fear of feelings of love for members of one’s sex and therefore hatred of those feelings

In this country there is a serious problem. This land that was founded on "All are created equal" we have a problem: inequality. Culturally, we have welfare and other social programs to help racial minorities and any other minority you can think. Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity form the basis for the religious miasma that is the U.S. So you can see religious and cultural differences are accepted. We live in a tolerant society where diversity is accepted—wrong. How about a culture where homosexuals are pariahs. A place, where even today, gay and lesbian couples can't even be married in a civil ceremony.