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  • Title: When gay is pretty: physical attractiveness and low homophobia.
    Author: Innala SM, Ernulf KE.
    Journal: Psychol Rep; 1994 Jun; 74(3 Pt 1):827-31. PubMed ID: 8058859.
    Abstract:
    Photographs of physically attractive men and women were presented as depicting homosexuals and heterosexuals to subjects on the University of California at Berkeley campus who were generally judged to be nonhomophobic opposite-sexed students. Analysis showed that the 62 women rated 3 men as significantly more physically attractive when they believed the men were homosexual than when they believed the men were heterosexual. The 65 men did not rate photographs of 3 women as more physically attractive when they believed the women were lesbian compared to when they believed the women were heterosexual. The results illustrate an effect of the "gay-pretty-boy stereotype," namely, that women judged to be nonhomophobic perceived homosexual men as more physically attractive than comparable heterosexual men.
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