homophobia

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɒ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/

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• Rhymes: -əʊbiə

From homo- (“from homosexual”) +‎ -phobia, coined in 1971 by George Weinberg in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)

1. 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.

   1. Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against LGBTQ+ people in general.

• 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]

• (fear of homosexuality): homoerotophobia, heterosexism, homophobism, gay-hate, gaycism, gayphobia
• (dislike of homosexuality): gay-hate, homomisia

• homomania

• gayphobia
• lesbophobia
• dykephobia

• acephobia
• biphobia
• transphobia

• liberal homophobia

• homophobe
• homophobic
• homophobism

• heterosexism
• heterophobia
• heterophobism
• gaycism

• homophobia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)

homophobia (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, individual occurrences) A pathological fear of mankind.

• (fear of mankind): anthropophobia

• homophobe
• homophobic

• misanthropy
• androphobia
• gynophobia