Homophobia

The word homophobia is used to show hatred if not dislike toward same-sex relationship this is often shown by those who hold a religious belief who thinks that same-sex relationships is morally/physical/spiritual wrong and should not be allowed. There are people who hated it so much that they did rallies and there are sites on the internet that teaches people why it is wrong. The word gay/homo/etc. are words people thinking about it when same sex is involved? For males, the concept of being gay…

Homophobia is a dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people. People who claim to be gay, lesbian or bisexual are still human, they have the same rights as we do, even if they do not follow the “social norms” of liking the opposite sex. Dude, You’re a Fag by C.J. Pascoe presents a variety of examples that show that our society has a problem with people being anything other than straight. Homophobia is more than hate speech in high school but the central concept around which adolescent…

November 4, 2015 Origins of Homophobia Throughout the existence of the human race homosexuality has been judged by antagonistic attitudes. Homosexuality has existed throughout the ages but only recently have common views regarding the social cause have been tested. Homophobia is defined as a persons level of fear or sense of disgust upon seeing or referring to individuals who are lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and gay. In addition, heterosexual people believe that homophobia is also morally…

Sexuality and Homophobia “Come on, let’s go play house!” I heard this statement so many times as a child. The only thing is, I grew up in a neighbor that was mainly girls at the time, so when we would play “house”, pretending to have our own family consisting of a mother, father (although there usually wasn’t a male around), and a child; it got really awkward. Most of us grew out of it and promised to never speak of that phase again. However, some of us grew up and became extremely cautious…

Although homophobia is not talked about as much as it used to, it is still a very apparent issue in both the United States and surrounding countries. In two recent articles I read homophobia was an issue in both. Neither article specifically talked about homophobia but both articles help prove that homophobia and inequality against the LGBT community is still going on and needs to be put to a stop. I read both articles “Parenthood Denied by the Law” by John Leland and “Pop Culture Still Fails…

Homophobia envelops a scope of adverse mentalities and sentiments toward homosexuality or individuals who are distinguished or saw as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). It can be communicated as hostility, disdain, bias, repugnance, or contempt may be in light of unreasonable apprehension, and sometimes a person shows abhorrence due to religious convictions. The display of homophobia also results from the beliefs inlaid in a person…

“Being gay is natural. Hating gay is a lifestyle choice.”- John Fugelsand. Homophobic or homophobia is a word that is used in abundance today. But better yet, phobia is defined as “an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something” (dictionary.com), people do not fear homosexuals, however they just do not like them. How would they feel to have their heterosexual rights taken away and told they can’t marry someone? Would that make the LGBT community heterophobic or maybe the world seem…

In “Homophobia – A Weapon of Sexism”, Suzanne Pharr discusses how homophobia and the fear of being “gay” is tied to the groundwork of sexism. Sexism is the discrimination of people based on their sex. Pharr argues, that even deeper than that sexism is the result of fear from the dominant group of the loss of power over the subordinate group. She then goes onto explain how homophobia acts to this fear of loss of power and therefore strengthens sexism. Pharr’s main reasoning’s were the isolation…

homophobic Abrahamic religions of Christianity and Islam swept across the globe, conquering and colonizing lands and cultures far removed from their own, so too did their latent homophobia spread. In China, when parts of it were subjected to colonial British rule (among other powers vying for control in the region), the British’s homophobia became a norm in a move to appease the colonialists’ sympathies (Lau). This gradual change from a culture that was generally accepting of homosexuality to a…

to tiptoe through life. Our society is inadvertently homophobic due to how we are raised as well as the influence of “wholesome” family values. The family values we have learnt and society has reinforced has imposed on us has create an era of homophobia and aggressive behaviour to those who are different. The term “That’s so gay” is dropped into a sentence almost as much as the joining word between. This term is used as a way to describe any situation that is considered boring or undesirable.…