homophobia
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
homo- (“from homosexual”) + -phobia, coined in 1971 by George Weinberg in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.
Noun[edit]
homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)
- Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against homosexuals.
- 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life[3], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 45–46:
- He lost his racism when he worked with a black man in Chicago. He lost his homophobia when he was befriended and looked after by his gay neighbors, a doctor and a nurse, in Little Rock.
- Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against LGBTQ+ people in general.
Usage notes[edit]
- In the 1990s, behavioral scientists William O'Donohue and Christine Caselles argued that the term homophobia was pejorative.[1] In 2012, the Associated Press Stylebook was revised to advise against using -phobia words in non-clinical ways, and AP editor Dave Minthorn suggested replacing "homophobic" with "anti-gay".[2][3]
Synonyms[edit]
- (fear of homosexuality): homoerotophobia, heterosexism, homophobism, gay-hate, gaycism, gayphobia
- (dislike of homosexuality): gay-hate, homomisia
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Translations[edit]
fear, dislike, or hate of homosexuals
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See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- homophobia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2[edit]
Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)
Noun[edit]
homophobia (uncountable)
- (obsolete, individual occurrences) A pathological fear of mankind.
Synonyms[edit]
- (fear of mankind): anthropophobia
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Translations[edit]
obsolete: pathological fear of mankind
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ O'Donohue, William, Caselles, Christine (1993 September) “Homophobia: Conceptual, definitional, and value issues”, in J Psychopathol Behav Assess[1], volume 15, number 3, archived from the original on 28 March 2020
- ^ Byers, Dylan (2012 November 26) “AP nixes 'homophobia', 'ethnic cleansing'”, in Politico, retrieved 12 January 2018
- ^ Page, Clarence (2012 December 5) “Words with negative power”, in Chicago Tribune[2], retrieved 16 December 2012
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