Androgyny Scores of Matched Homosexual and Heterosexual Males

Twenty-sex white homosexual males and 26 white heterosexual males were matched on age, education, occupational level, and sampling frame. One-half of the pairs were volunteers, and one-half were paid for participating. Masculinity, femininity, and androgyny scores were obtained on the Bem Sex Role Inventory. The homosexual sample was "androgynous", and the heterosexual sample was highly "masculine sex typed," by definition (Bem, 1974). This difference was tested by a derived "androgynyscore" and was significant (p less than .05).