gayphobia
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English
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[edit]gayphobia (uncountable)
- Fear, dislike, or hatred of gay men.
- 2010, Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers, Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology, page 524:
- Homophobia concerns lesbians (lesbophobia), gay men (gayphobia), bisexual people (biphobia), and transgender people (transphobia).
- 2017, Kristina Schulz, The Women's Liberation Movement: Impacts and Outcomes, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 164:
- In fact, gayphobia occupied more media space than lesbophobia.
- (rare) Fear, dislike, or hatred of gay people in general.
- Synonym: homophobia
- 2013, Karen K. Kirst-Ashman, Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series: Human Behavior in the Macro Social Environment, page 59:
- A major problem LGBTQ people face is gayphobia or homophobia, the irrational “fear and hatred” of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people (Morrow, 2008, p. 79).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gayphobia.
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[edit]fear, dislike, or hatred of gay men
fear, dislike or hatred of gay people in general