Psychological Causes of Gay Bashing

This article from Scientific American describes research being done by a group of UGA professors on the subject of homophobia--the researchers "report evidence that homophobic young males may secretly have gay urges." This conclusion in itself is not exactly shocking (well, I should speak for myself, but I'd venture to bet others of you would agree). The fact that there is now a scientific basis for this claim, however, is what makes this study cutting edge. The article gets a bit graphic at places, so I won't go into much detail here, but it's a interesting and important read. It delves into not only sexual attraction and arousal but agression of homophobic men toward gay men as compared to straight men.