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▪ I. homophobia, n.1 rare.|hɒməʊˈfəʊbɪə, həʊməʊ-, -mə-| [f. L. homō man + -phobia.] Fear of men, or aversion towards the male sex; also, fear of mankind, anthropophobia.
1920Chambers's Jrnl. 5 June 418/1 Her salient characteristic was a contempt for the male sex as represented in the human biped... The seeds of homophobia had been sown early. 1960T. Kora in Koestler's Lotus & Robot ii. 213 Of nervosity symptoms, homophobia appears most frequently. In this is included fear of blushing when appearing before a person, or erythrophobia, feeling of getting stiff or oppressed before an individual. ▪ II. homophobia, n.2|hɒməʊˈfəʊbɪə, həʊməʊ-, -mə-| [f. homosexual a. and n. + -phobia.] Fear or hatred of homosexuals and homosexuality.
1969Time 31 Oct. 61/3 Such homophobia is based on understandable instincts among straight people, but it also involves innumerable misconceptions and oversimplifications. 1971Gay (N.Y.) 30 Aug. 15/1 A colleague..who read a paper of mine on homophobia, did the first piece of research on homophobia that I [sc. Dr. George Weinberg] know of. 1975Globe & Mail (Toronto) 4 Sept. 7/3 There is no such thing as the homosexual problem any more than there is a black problem—the problems are racism and homophobia. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Dec. 1440/5 Homosexuality does indeed pose serious problems: chief among them is widespread homophobia. 1988P. Monette Borrowed Time vii. 171 It would be harder and harder to be openly gay. For once we would not internalize the homophobia. |