Internalized homophobia plagues the gay community
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Internalized homophobia plagues the gay community

When you live in a society that undervalues you in medicine, education, politics, religion, policing, and general societal rhetoric, as a gay person, it becomes quite easy to internalize such negative beliefs. Internalized homophobia is the internalization of negative beliefs about oneself or one’s group, specifically homosexuals. It leads to a person hating or disliking…

Op-Ed: Why I don’t feel comfortable around straight men
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Op-Ed: Why I don’t feel comfortable around straight men

I am a 25-year-old man who is uncomfortable around heterosexual men. I think my discomfort started around the age of eleven, around the time that I entered middle school. Before middle school, I had several guy friends. We would play video games together, watch TV and movies, play sports, wrestle, and have sleepovers. But around the age of…