In one study, 22 women and nine men viewed 104 photos of straight and gay black and white males and rated their likeability on a scale of one (not likable) to seven (extremely likable). Participants were not informed that some of the men pictured were gay. While overall, white straight men were rated as more likable than white gay men, black men were rated in the opposite manner: gay blacks were more likable than straight black men.

Here’s my abstract:

Based on pictures, many of which obviously revealed sexual orientation via expression or stereotypically consistent ”styling,” average participants found gay white males weird. (I’m going to guess that straight white men found them weird and off-putting and half of the straight white women instinctively wanted to go shopping with the gay males) 

Black males, on average, registered as a threat. 

Gay black males registered as the most submissive and least threatening black males, so they were preferred over straight black males and allowed the white people in the group to feel less racist but also safer. 

The “University of Toronto” can mail me my PhD.