Crossword clues for homophobia
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
homophobia \hom`o*pho"bi*a\, n. A strong dislike or fear of homosexuals, especially to an unreasonable degree.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. Fear, dislike(,) or hatred of gays and lesbians. Etymology 2
n. (context obsolete individual occurrences English) A pathological fear of mankind.
WordNet
n. prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality
Wikipedia
Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender ( LGBT). It has been defined as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred or antipathy, may be based on irrational fear, and is often related to religious beliefs.
- "European Parliament resolution on homophobia in Europe", Texts adopted Wednesday, 18 January 2006 – Strasbourg Final edition- "Homophobia in Europe" at "A" point
Homophobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientations that are non-heterosexual. Recognized types of homophobia include institutionalized homophobia, e.g. religious homophobia and state-sponsored homophobia, and internalized homophobia, experienced by people who have same-sex attractions, regardless of how they identify.
Negative attitudes toward identifiable LGBT groups have similar yet specific names: lesbophobia is the intersection of homophobia and sexism directed against lesbians, biphobia targets bisexuality and bisexual people, and transphobia targets transgender and transsexual people and gender variance or gender role nonconformity.
In the USA, according to the 2010 Hate Crimes Statistics released by the FBI National Press Office, 19.3 percent of hate crimes across the United States "were motivated by a sexual orientation bias." Moreover, in a Southern Poverty Law Center 2010 Intelligence Report extrapolating data from fourteen years (1995–2008), which had complete data available at the time, of the FBI's national hate crime statistics found that LGBT people were "far more likely than any other minority group in the United States to be victimized by violent hate crime."
"Homophobia" is a song from Chumbawamba's album Anarchy, concerning the topic of modern homophobia. It remained a regular part of Chumbawamba's live set, usually in an a cappella version, from its initial release in 1994 up to the band's retirement in 2012. This arrangement was performed on their 1994 live album Showbusiness!. The version released as a single is very different from the album and live versions, having an upbeat synthesised backing, altered lyrics, and backing vocals by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
The B-side "Song for Derek Jarman" is a heavily reworked version of "Rage" from Anarchy. It quotes from Dylan Thomas's " Do not go gentle into that good night" and ends with a clip of Derek Jarman himself praising the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Usage examples of "homophobia".
It was embarrassing at times and always boring, but her view was that casual racism, sexism and homophobia always had to be confronted.
You would have thought he was guilty of racism, homophobia, antienvironmentalism, antivegetarianism and anti-Americanism.
Psychoanalysis suggests homophobia arises because we fear or hate our own unconscious homosexual tendencies.
Lesbian and gay novels have their own protocols, their own coming out layers, their own tackling of homophobia and so forth.
And, as it happens, all these male subcultures share a particular set of features: homophobia, coupled with an oddly ironic, complete, childlike trust in male authority.