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homophobia

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  • IPA(key): /ˌhɒ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Etymology 1 edit

homo- (“from homosexual”) +‎ -phobia, coined in 1971 by George Weinberg in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

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homophobia (countable and uncountable, plural homophobias)

  1. Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against homosexuals.
    1. Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against LGBTQ+ people in general.
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  • In the 1990s, behavioral scientists William O'Donohue and Christine Caselles argued that the term homophobia was pejorative.[1] In 2012, the Associated Press Stylebook was revised to advise against using -phobia words in non-clinical ways, and AP editor Dave Minthorn suggested replacing "homophobic" with "anti-gay".[2][3]
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Etymology 2 edit

Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)

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homophobia (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, individual occurrences) A pathological fear of mankind.
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  1. ^ O'Donohue, William, Caselles, Christine (1993 September) “Homophobia: Conceptual, definitional, and value issues”, in J Psychopathol Behav Assess‎[1], volume 15, number 3, archived from the original on 28 March 2020
  2. ^ Byers, Dylan (2012 November 26) “AP nixes 'homophobia', 'ethnic cleansing'”, in Politico, retrieved 12 January 2018
  3. ^ Page, Clarence (2012 December 5) “Words with negative power”, in Chicago Tribune‎[2], retrieved 16 December 2012
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