homoantagonism

Noun

homoantagonism (uncountable)

1. Hostile or violent behavior toward gay people.
   • 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.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...
   • 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...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...