Both the LGBT community and Muslim minorities face the combined realities of discrimination, marginalization and exclusion. In addition, it appears that sometimes those who would oppress others have been oppressed themselves, and we can have some compassion for them too, they may be unaccepting of others because they cannot be accepting of themselves. In the eyes of many people, this is an ignoble approach that seeks to cast the net of suspicion wide and far and thereby institutionalize Islamophobia. This type of homophobia can be described as “liberal homophobia” and can manifest in the following ways: hoping that homosexuals try to suppress their sexuality, wanting gay people to keep their relationships private, and insisting that gay people should conform to societal “norms”. According to recent data [19], homophobic behaviors are more present in the Italian population when compared with other countries in Europe, and episodes of violence or denigration toward homosexual people are more frequent.

Designed purposely as a scale and not a test, the instructions indicate that there are “no right or wrong answers. The quiz is multiple-choice and includes a question about why an individual who identifies as gay may feel like they understand homophobia.

It is during these formative years when people are coming to understand and acknowledge their sexual orientation that internalised homophobia can really affect a person. The authors of this free online test are certified in the use of numerous psychological tests and have worked professionally with personality and psychological testing.

where a person may try to hide his sexual orientation from family, friends, work colleagues, etc, by “passing” as straight. This cookie is installed by Google Universal Analytics to restrain request rate and thus limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. Like everyone else, LGB people may be socialised into thinking that being non-heterosexual is somehow “mad”, “bad”, “wrong” or “immoral”.The development of the HS in the English language and the related validation was performed on a sample of 321 subjects at its first administration and 122 at the test–retest analysis. But the scale can be used as a rough but worthwhile measure of heterosexual attitudes toward homosexuals.