Psychosis in gays

According to a new study, anti-gay attitudes may suggest a lot about the person who holds them. It may not come as a surprise, but a new study links people who hold strongly negative views toward the LGBT community with psychoticism, a personality trait characterized by anger, hostility, and aggression. The study also reveals that homophobes have worse coping mechanisms than those who are accepting of the gay community. The study was led by Emmanuele Jannini, an endocrinologist and medical sexologist at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He wrote that a number of factors seem to play a role in anti-gay beliefs, such as religion, sensitivity to disgust, hypermasculinity and misogyny. Using questionnaires, the researchers assessed the levels of homophobia , psychopathological symptoms, defense system, and attachment styles among over Italian university students, ages 18 to

Just 50 years ago, June — the month of Stonewall — many people were distracted by what seemed, then, a much bigger cultural uproar. David Reuben had been published that month — and quickly shot to the top of the non-fiction bestseller list. The sexual revolution had reached the suburbs: A certified psychiatrist — an expert! There, Reuben concurred with most other mental health professionals of the time. Homosexuality was immature. It was pathological.

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