aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Friday, April 04, 2008
Violet Blue, Jay Leno & the Homo Homophobes
Violet Blue had a wicked fun column in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday. It begins:
It happens every time I innocently go to the neighborhood grocery store for soy milk. You see, I live in the Castro, in San Francisco, and everyone knows what that means.
The streets are teeming with homosexuals. It’s just like in those horror-movie fundamentalist videos: Everyone’s in leather with their bits and butts on display; murderous Baby Jane drag queens run amok day and night; gay sex is happening in the streets at all hours. There’s a huge lube slide at the corner of 18th and Castro by the Bank of America, where of course, virgin straight men are sacrificed should they wander haplessly into our own little Sodom-by-the-Bay. And because I’m a heathen too, every once in a while I lure and toss a straight boy into the fray, just for kicks. It’s like a zombie movie, but gayer.
Don’t get your homophobic hopes up; It’s not really that fun in my neighborhood. But the gaya hatas love to obsess, their imaginations running wild with Bacchanalian scenarios far more creative (or physically impossible, a la “South Park") than anything Falcon or Raging Stallion’s best porn screenwriters can come up with. Unfortunately, as we all know, homophobes get so lathered and frothy about the things they hate that they take action, sometimes political, sometimes physical and occasionally with murderous intent.
The reason for Violet’s rant? Jay Leno’s recent homophobic run-in with Ryan Phillippe. She goes on to point to the 1996 UGA Homo Homophobes study last seen a couple years ago in the Know + Tell section of Details magazine (pictured above).
She provides this pdf of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology study and this Ed Brayton summation from his post at ScienceBlogs:
The authors investigated the role of homosexual arousal in exclusively heterosexual men who admitted negative affect toward homosexual individuals. Participants consisted of a group of homophobic men (n = 35) and a group of nonhomophobic men (n = 29); they were assigned to groups on the basis of their scores on the Index of Homophobia (W. W. Hudson & W. A. Ricketts, 1980). The men were exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian videotapes, and changes in penile circumference were monitored. They also completed an Aggression Questionnaire (A. H. Buss & M. Perry, 1992). Both groups exhibited increases in penile circumference to the heterosexual and female homosexual videos. Only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. The groups did not differ in aggression. Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.
Gay people are well aware that those most vociferous in their anti-gay attacks are typically covering their shamefully guilty tracks. If they’d just fess up, honestly and forthrightly, about who they are we’d all be better off.
Meanwhile, I am sorry to learn that Professor Adams passed away in 2000.
LATER: Neither I nor Violet Blue is implying that Leno is a homo homophobe. No, he’s just clueless! In my first post on this topic I called him a washed up unfunny has been. Confirming both that he’s clueless and a washed up has been, he’s unapologized for the Ryan Phillippe remarks.
