Assessing Heterosexuals' Attitudes toward Lesbians and Gay Men: A Review of Empirical Research with the ATLG Scale
- 1 January 1994
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
In the early 1970s, two related events paved the way for modern research on heterosexuals' attitudes toward lesbians and gay men. In 1972 Weinberg published his highly influential book, Society and the Healthy Homosexual, in which he introduced the concept of homophobia. In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association's board of trustees voted to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), a decision subsequently upheld in a referendum of the general membership (Bayer, 1987). Weinberg's book and the DSM revision both were elements of a Zeitgeist in which gay men and ...Keywords
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