Homophobia

Definitions

1. Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals.
   countable, uncountable
2. A pathological fear of mankind.
   obsolete, uncountable
3. Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards LGBT+ persons in general.
   broadly, countable, uncountable
4. Deliberate misspelling of heterochromia.
   Internet, alt-of, countable, deliberate, humorous, misspelling, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Thinly-veiled homophobia – this time in early-2000s Hollywood – made Brokeback Mountain an immense challenge⟳ for Ossana and her fellow producer James Schamus.”

“A beautiful cat with homophobia in her 💙 eyes 🧡”

“A dog with homophobia in its eyes ✨✨”

“beautiful rabbit with homophobia”

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