Also, whereas there was no link between the amount of impulsive attraction the non-homophobic men showed toward men (on the manikin task) and the time they spent looking at the images of male gay couples, there was a link among the highly homophobic participants - those who showed a greater impulsive attraction to men also tended to look longer at
the images of gay couples than heterosexual couples.
Not exact matches
After that, the researchers tracked the eye movements
of the participants as they looked at and rated the pleasantness
of images of gay male and heterosexual
couples.
The men were told to look at the
images for as long as necessary to make their judgments, and longer time spent looking specifically at the faces and bodies
of the
gay male
couples was taken by the researchers as another sign
of attraction to men.
On half the trials, an
image of a
gay male
couple subsequently appeared on the side
of the screen toward which the participants were moving the manikin; on the other trials, a heterosexual
couple appeared in this position.
Then there are the superb
images by South African photographer Zanele Muholi, a
gay woman in a country that's still worryingly hostile to the LGBTQ community: as recently as 2009 the country's then Minister
of Arts and Culture Lulu Xingwana described Muholi's portraits
of nude lesbian
couples as «immoral» and «against nation - building.»
The
images are
of gay couples, photographed and staged to look like characters in old film stills.