Why are most straight people intimated by gays??

Answer 1

Because people are always fearful of that which is different from themselves, or that which they do not understand. Some react to this fear with curiosity and interest in an effort to understand better, some try to ignore it altogether, whereas some lash out in anger.

I also believe that many of the people who are the most vociferously homophobic are attempting to overcompensate for their own latent homosexual tendencies. So these people would lash out at gay and lesbian people in an attempt to reaffirm their own heterosexuality and superiority, but it's really a gesture that betrays their own insecurities.

Answer 2

My wife & I are not intimadated by gays. We do not hate or dislike the gay person but we do loathe the actions. Maybe some are affraid of the any who would approach them for an encounter.
Going back some 50 years when I would swim at the Hamptons--I was constantly approached & found it annoying ,even though I was young ,I found no threat but others might feel a threat. Never succumbed to any advance, even from a teamate.
I have never run into an aggressive gay, & when I see the effort for contact I use body lanquage to make clear that I have no interest whatso ever. Same with any woman that has made a pass. Usually people get the message

Could also be that the archaic view of how you can get AIDS has never been shed.

Answer 3

It has not been experience that they are, most straight guys are turned on by the idea of Lesbians. Most straight women I know like having gay male friends. It's not gays in general, if anything, aside from the Bible thumpers, it's a worry about unwanted sexual advances. Straight men find horrible the idea that gay man could treat them with same lack of respect that they, themselves, treat women. In my 20 years in the Navy that was the most common argument from other men why gays and bis shouldn't be allowed in. The heck of it was, most of the guys complaining weren't the ones who'd have been hit on.

Answer 4

For the same reason Jesus said on the cross, "Father forgive them for they know NOT what they do"...it stems from a lack of knowledge. Lack of knowledge usually leads to an automatic dismissal of that which we don't understand rather than trying to become educated and learn about it. Change is something that ALL people have a problem with to some level. Since we are "different" is has to change one's perspectives. When we change someone's perspective, we also tred on their concept of their true beliefs. When we alter someone's true beliefs, we are in a sense "changing" them, because we are trying to change their opinion or perspective. Change is hard, that's why it's exhibited most often with anger. Anger itself is not a true, pure emotion. It's actually an emotion that covers up a deeper underlying emotion..usually fear, or betrayal.
This is why many people say that straight people who lash out against gays are actually supressing their own internalized homophobia, because those traits exist within themselves to some level.
If you think about it, everything you don't like about someone else, are all traits within yourself that you are in denial about not liking in yourself as well, if you REALLY stop to think about it.

Answer 5

i'm bisexual, and that i have had one intense relationship with a lady and three with adult males (i'm lady, elderly 18). My relationship with the female change right into a lot less intimate than with the adult males. With me and her, it change into very just about the sexual area of issues, we somewhat talked, we somewhat even made eye contact. With the adult males they truly took the time to get to carry close me, we talked for hours and were fairly satisfied purely to sit down and cuddle in the front of the television. i have been with my contemporary boyfriend for 14 months and that is magnificent. So because i have experienced both, i does no longer say gay youngster relationships are better intimate and loving than immediately ones, yet that is purely my opinion.

Answer 6

Ignorance

Answer 7

We generally earn a MUCH higher salary, we generally are much more attractive, we generally are more intelligent, we generally are better dressers, better read, better educated, better sexed...oh the list goes on and on...I simply cannot type all th reasons...oh it is great to be envied!

Answer 8

Ignorance and fear. Sadly, there are still far too many people who equate being different with being bad or wrong.

Answer 9

I am stright but I do not mide people that are gay. It is there chose. Not any one eles

Answer 10

K...do you mean imitated, intimidated or intimated??? Spellings not your thing is it?