Over the weekend I encountered some fairly hard core homophobia on social media, with sexist and racist overtones to boot. The crux of their argument was that gay people can choose to be gay, and therefore don’t deserve marriage equality. Yep. You can write that in capital letters all you like, it don’t make it true. So I was really interested when I read this article from professor of psychology, psychiatry and education, Richard M. Ryan, examining the link between homophobia and the likelihood that you are actually gay. One theory is that homosexual urges, when repressed out of shame [...]