relationships may exist. This study has built a bridge in that it has done both. The data have demonstrated linkages between gender role ideologies, race, gender, religious fundamentalism, age and education with subsequent attitudes toward lesbians and gays. Just like race and gender, it is assumed that gender role ideologies precede homonegativity and not the reverse. In this circumstance we can now better understand the effects that gender role schemas play in our every day lives. Barbara Risman in her book Gender Vertigo (1998) has proposed that gender should be as insignificant as the length of one's toes or the color of one's eyes. Nonetheless, gender is at the forefront of everything we do. The elimination of gender inequality can only be accomplished through the elimination of gender. Although there may be many factors influencing homonegativity, the data have demonstrated that gender role schemas are still the best predictor, even when controlling for these other influential factors. In essence, this study helps expose the link between gender inequality and homonegativity. Although an elimination of gender inequality could have a significant impact on reducing homonegativity, the data also demonstrate that there are many other factors beyond gender role ideologies that influence homonegativity. Future research could analyze potential linkages between gender role ideologies and any number of the other independent variables considered in this study. An altering of the structures of gender and gender role ideologies will subsequently have effects on any number of other variables (i.e., challenging gender role ideologies will not only effect homonegativity but also institutions such as the government, religion, families).

     Previous research have almost universally identified that men tend to express more homonegative attitudes than women. This study has argued that this effect could largely