Pride is
The quality of being proud. I.1. A high or overwhelming opinion of one's own qualities, attainments, or estate. 2. The exhibition of this quality in one's attitude, bearing, conduct, etc. 3. A consciousness of what is befitting or due to oneself or one's position 4. A feeling of elation or high satisfaction derived from some action or possession. II.1. Magnificence, splendor; pomp, display. +6. Sexual desire, 'heat'.

So, get out your pink triangles, your black triangles, your rainbow flags, your freedom rings.  March down the yellow brick road, over and beyond our rainbow.

Wherever you are and however you do it, Get Your Pride On !

Most homophobes are gay Most most homophobes are gay

Research by US psychologist Prof. Adams of the University of Georgia
suggests that 80 percent of men who are homophobic have secret homosexual feelings. In Prof. Adams's test, homophobic men who said they were exclusively heterosexual were shown gay sex videos. Four out of five became sexually aroused by the homoerotic imagery, as recorded by a penile circumference measuring device (a plethysmograph).

Prof. Adams's research was published in the prestigious US Journal of
Abnormal Psychology in 1996, with the backing of the American Psychological Association.

Prof. Adams says his research shows that most homophobes "demonstrate significant sexual arousal to homosexual erotic stimuli", suggesting that homophobia is a form of "latent homosexuality where persons are either unaware of or deny their homosexual urges".

These findings support the theories that homophobia (fear and hatred of
gayness and support for antigay discrimination) is often indicative of
repressed, self-loathing homosexual feelings; and that many homophobes subconsciously use antigay attitudes  as a smokescreen to disguise their own homosexuality.

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