Queen Bee

Queen Bee

Julie Bracken posted a photo:

Queen Bee

A hive of bees, as I’ve heard say,
Said to their Queen one sultry day,
“Please your Majesty’s high position,
The hive is full and the weather is warm,
We rather think, with a due submission,
The time has come when we ought to swarm.”
Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz
.
Up spake their Queen and thus spake she –
“This is a matter that rests with me,
Who dares opinions thus to form?
I’LL tell you when it is time to swarm!”
Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz.

Her Majesty wore an angry frown,
In fact, her Majesty’s foot was down –
Her Majesty sulked – declined to sup –
In short, her Majesty’s back was up.
Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz.
Her foot was down and her back was up!
~William Schwenck Gilbert

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Queen Bee

Mr. Gay Europe Soaks, Gym Bunnies Strut, Famous Singer’s Wild Vegas Gay Party

Mr. Gay Europe Soaks, Gym Bunnies Strut, Famous Singer’s Wild Vegas Gay Party

OK, it’ll probably be bad, but we can’t help but get excited for Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show remake, potentially-miscast Laverne Cox and all. Here’s the new trailer.

Meet the newly-crowned Mr. Gay Europe — Raf Van Puymbroeck from Belgium. Why hello there.

A photo posted by Raf Van Puymbroeck (@rafvp) on

It might seem fabulous, but high heels make for some pretty awful gym wear in practical use. Didn’t stop these guys, though.

Teen Wolf actor Keahu Kahuanui is set to play recurring gay character on The CW’s The Originals. Why do we care? See below.

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Been wondering what RuPaul thinks of Hillary Clinton? “I think she’s f*cking awesome.” There you have it, folks.

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Popular Mexican singer Alejandro Fernández was having the time of his life as he was photographed shirtless between two cuties at a gay party in Vegas.

LITERAL Alejandro Fernández, ‘Sin tantita Pena’ ?? #ElMejorDeMisTalentos pic.twitter.com/mucT7uGEPs

— Aarón Nieto (@untalaaronnieto) August 10, 2016

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Study Shows Homophobic Male College Students Attracted To Gay Imagery

Study Shows Homophobic Male College Students Attracted To Gay Imagery

 

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Two men kissing. Photo by See-ming Lee, CC 2.0.

Homophobia is gay, to quote Dan Savage. A study conducted in 1996 found that homophobic men responded favorably downstairs when viewing “male homosexual” “erotic stimuli.” They were shown gay, straight and lesbian “stimuli,” and while both the homophobic and non-homophobic men became aroused during the straight and lesbian material, only the antigay men were aroused during the gay imagery.

“Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies,” the abstract of that study reads.

Related: Study Finds You Shouldn’t Be Expecting Your Sexting Partner To Keep Your Pics To Themselves 

Now a new study, published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, is backing up that conclusion. The found that those with negative attitudes toward gay men appeared to be more interested in gay imagery than the men in the study who did not have those homophobic feelings.

38 heterosexual men from the University of Geneva took a survey to quantify their feelings on gay men. They then completed a computerized test known as a manikin task to determine what their unconscious, impulsive tendencies are toward homosexual imagery.

Study participants move a small image of a human figure on a computer, either towards or away from a specific stimuli in the center of the screen. With this task, researchers can measure approach and avoidance behavior.

Related: Study Finds Gay Men Are Making Open Relationships Work

The antigay men spent longer looking at images of homosexual couples than they did looking at heterosexual couples.

“Findings on the viewing time allow understanding why some (but not all) men high in homophobia have a sexual interest in same-sex individuals,” the researchers concluded. “This study provides a better understanding of the psychological processes involved in the processing of erotic gay material among men high in homophobia, and provides a fine-grained prediction of sexual related behaviors.”

Lead author Boris Cheval, of the University of Geneva in Switzerland, told PsyPost it is currently hard to tell how big of a role suppressed gay attraction plays in the formation of antigay attitudes.

Both studies had small sample sizes. Hopefully more research will be done in this field to give us more ammo against the antigay haters.

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