What is psychology behind homosexuality and homophobia?

People are primarily homophobic, their reasons to support homophobia come later. Consensual validity: if others around you think it is wrong, it must be so. Disgust: Homosexual expressions of lovemaking have been seen with a disgust as they don't confirm to our views of hygiene. read more

For example, de Kuyper (1993) has asserted that homophobia is the result of the remnants of homosexuality in the heterosexual resolution of the Oedipal conflict. Whereas these notions are vague, psychoanalytic theories usually postulate that homophobia is a result of repressed homosexual urges or a form of latent homosexuality. read more

This incongruence between implicit and explicit measures of sexual orientation predicted a variety of homophobic behaviors, including self-reported anti-gay attitudes, implicit hostility towards gays, endorsement of anti-gay policies, and discriminatory bias such as the assignment of harsher punishments for homosexuals. read more