Homohysteria: Definitions, context and intersectionality

The liberalization of attitudes toward homosexuality in the U. S. that has occurred in the previous few decades has been one of the most profound attitud inal changes in U.S. culture (e.g. Baunach 2012; Keleher and Smith 2012; Loftus 2001). This has b een shown to have had a significant positive effect on the lives of sexual mino rity youth (Anderson and McCormack in press; Riley 2010; Savin-Williams 2005). It has also had a si gnificant effect on the lives of heterosexual men as well (e.g. Anderson 2009; Dean 2013; Gottzen and Kremer-Sadlik 2012). As much of our focus in this article is on the U.S., all empirical studies use U.S. samples unless otherwise noted.