There was a study that went like this (but I can't find it now...I hope I remember it correctly): We take a sample of subjects. They sit in a room. They are to

There was a study that went like this (but I can't find it now...I hope I remember it correctly): We take a sample of subjects. They sit in a room. They are told that in the other room is another person that they will play a game against (actually the outcomes of the games they play are the same for everyone). At some point this involves giving electric shocks to this person. Before they start they are shown a movie of this other person. Now, part of the group gets a movie of a man acting normal and the other part is gets a movie of the same man acting gay. After this the subjects are tested for gayness. It turned out that there is a positive correlation between gayness and the severity of the electric shocks delivered to the gay acting guy. So the theory is that homophobes are (a little) gay themselves, and they are afraid that they act like the gay guy. Edit: here it is http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=single-angry-straight-male&page=3 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=single-angr... It turns out my memory didn't work flawlessly ;)