I promise I'm not heteronegative.

[mothwing]

Heteronegativism - The Attitudes of Gay Men and Lesbians Toward Heterosexuals

Although many studies have been conducted on homophobia, little information exists about the attitudes of homosexuals toward heterosexuals. In order to compare the attitudes of both groups, a well-known homophobia questionnaire (Hudson & Ricketts, 1980) was reworded to assess the attitudes of homosexuals toward heterosexuals, forming a “heterophobia” questionnaire.
The less clinical term “heteronegativism” is introduced here to refer to the range of negative feelings that gay individuals could possess regarding heterosexuals. Sixty homosexual students were matched with 60 heterosexual psychology students on sex, age, race, and education. Each group was given its respective “phobia” questionnaire.
Hypotheses that homosexual participants would report less phobia and more negative experience than heterosexuals and that gay women would report more phobia than gay men were supported. Hypotheses that level of abuse in closeted homosexuals would be positively correlated with phobia scores and that being “out of the closet” would be negatively correlated with phobia scores were not supported.

Stephen M. White, Louis R. Franzini, '99

Comments

[lordhellebore]

*lol* That fact that queers are in a position of being an oppressed minority certainly has nothing to do with this, right? Like, queers should just run around loving on the heterosexual majority and their heteronormative society, yes?

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

I think that's their reason for why homosexual participants are less phobic, yes.

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

That is a weird (and problematic!) concept for the study. How would you even measure "level of abuse in closeted homosexuals" (what does that even mean?).

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm wondering... I'll have a look at it today, but I'm pretty "...eh?" about the entire thing...