The Foley mess reaffirms some things we have long known about the nature and characteristics of anti-gay prejudice. William Eskridge, a Yale law professor, has written that anti-gay prejudice has been marked historically by three characteristics. These are: 1) ''hysterical demonization of gay people as dirty sexualized subhumans''; 2) ''obsessional fears of gay people as conspiratorial and sexually predatory''; and 3) ''narcissistic desires to reinforce stable heterosexual identity ... by bashing gay people.'' The primary historical traits of homophobia are thus hysteria, obsession and narcissism.
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