homoantagonism
English edit
Etymology edit
homo- + antagonism
Noun edit
homoantagonism (uncountable)
- Hostile or violent behavior toward gay people.
- 2002 November, Bianca Della Marie Wilson, Robin Lin Miller, “Strategies for Managing Hetereosexism Used Among African American Gay and Bisexual Men”, in Journal of Black Psychology, volume 28, number 4, page 381:
- Engaging in homoantagonism (taunting and possibly behaving violently toward gays), avoiding public intimacy with men, "acting like a thug/hard criminal," and "butching up," defined by one interviewee as "acting manly" and "cocking your hat back" (kp 36), are macho extreme behaviours.
- 2015, Shamira A. Meghani, “Queer South Asian Muslims: the ethnic closet and its secular limits”, in Claire Chambers, Caroline Herbert, editors, Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, Religion, Representations[1], Routledge, →ISBN:
- Both Indian homeland and transoceanic East African and US diasporas are represented in contexts of racism, Orientalism, and homoantagonism, but in ways that cut across intersections of oppression that lean one way and, instead, critique, celebrate, and complicate geographies, ethnicities, patriarchies, religions, and sexualities.
- 2015 January, Treva B. Lindsey, “Let Me Blow Your Mind: Hip Hop Feminist Futures in Theory and Praxis”, in Urban Education, volume 50, number 1, page 57:
- Collectively, hip-hop feminist theorists developed new ideas about and approaches to eradicating patriarchy, misogyny, homoantagonism, and transphobia both within hip-hop and in our communities.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:homoantagonism.