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How to use homophobia in a sentence

30 example sentences · noun

Homophobia means hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals. Example: “He lost his homophobia when he was befriended and looked after by his gay neighbors, a doctor and a nurse, in Little Rock.”

Examples of homophobia by meaning

nounHatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals.

  • He lost his homophobia when he was befriended and looked after by his gay neighbors, a doctor and a nurse, in Little Rock.2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 45–46
  • Thinly-veiled homophobia – this time in early-2000s Hollywood – made Brokeback Mountain an immense challenge for Ossana and her fellow producer James Schamus.2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and...

More sentences with homophobia

  • The government also uses such state homophobia to divert public attention from domestic problems.2018 January, Nikita Sleptcov, “Political Homophobia as a State Strategy in Russia”, in Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy…. From the entry heteronationalism
  • After the deadly shooting attack at Barnoar, liberal homophobia surfaced along with support for the community.2013 June, Aeyal Gross, “Israel's liberal homophobia”, in ILGA. From the entry liberal homophobia
  • As Stephen Ducat explains, homophobia has its roots in femophobia, or men's fear of their own femininity.2012, Jackson Katz, Leading Men: Presidential Campaigns and the Politics of Manhood, →ISBN. From the entry femophobia
  • Atheophobia should be just as unacceptable as homophobia, anti-Semitism, or racism.2011 January 25, Dan Barker, The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God, Berkeley: Ulysses Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry atheophobia
  • Homophobia concerns lesbians (lesbophobia), gay men (gayphobia), bisexual people (biphobia), and transgender people (transphobia).2010, Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers, Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology, page 524. From the entry gayphobia
  • If that time comes people will view paedophilephobia(!) just as they view homophobia now.2002 April 25, Moufang Loop, “The May-September Affair”, in alt.abuse.recovery (Usenet), archived from the original on 29 Sep 2025. From the entry paedophilephobia
  • That a great deal of that bicentrism was thinly veiled homophobia didn't bother them in the least.1996 October 7, Michael Thomas, “Re: The Curious Blinkers of Michael Thomas”, in soc.bi (Usenet). From the entry bicentric
  • This really confirms that Sacramentans turn a deaf ear to efforts to legislate bigotry and homophobia.1986 December 14, Jeffrey Ruda, quoting Ron Gray, “Sacramento Holds On To Lesbian/Gay Rights”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number…. From the entry turn a deaf ear
  • The way AIDS has become a handle for the New Right's homophobia.1985 December 28, Nancy Wechsler, “Boston Forum Calls for Radical Confrontation”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 24, page 2. From the entry handle
  • But it seems to me that fussing about masculinity is intimately related to homophobia.1984 December 29, Duncan Mitchel, “The Cult of Gay Machismo”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 9. From the entry fuss
  • The indictments were inspired by those seeking to use homophobia for political purposes.1978 December 23, John Mitzel, Charley Shively, Ed Hougen, Tom Reeves, “Boston/Boise Committee”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number…. From the entry show trial
  • The intellectual Daniel Borrillo refers to liberal homophobia as that which accepts homosexuality so long as it is not discussed.2012, Margarita Alonso, Best Inclusion Practices: LGBT Diversity, Routledge. From the entry liberal homophobia
  • I sometimes use the term fear of being femmed to describe the general anxiety or homophobia that Kimmel describes.2011, Michael E. Addis, Invisible Men: Men's Inner Lives and the Consequences of Silence, page 195. From the entry femme
  • It is worth repeating that homophobia, or the fear of being femmed, is not necessarily a fear of homosexuality.2011, Michael E. Addis, Invisible Men: Men's Inner Lives and the Consequences of Silence, page 195. From the entry femme
  • Is it knee jerk pedophile-phobia, homophobia or Celebrity-o-phobia?2002 November 5, LMF, “[Paula] Poundstone denied kids due to a technicality.”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet), archived from the original…. From the entry pedophile-phobia
  • Certainly there's homophobia and AIDSphobia but not anywhere near to the degree that there is in the music industry.1992 May 8, Christopher Moes, Diamanda Galas, “You Take Power, You Don't Ask For It And That's That”, in Gay Community News. From the entry AIDSphobia
  • Obviously, the process of coming out is not easy, regardless of social status: homophobia cuts across all classes.1978 December 9, David Steven, “Living in a Double Closet”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 9. From the entry disinherit
  • Homophobia is an issue for sport broadly, with Australian data suggesting that 80 percent of LGBTIQSB+ sportspeople have witnessed or experienced homophobia in sport.2024, Ellen van Neerven, Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity, Columbus, O.H.: Two Dollar Radio, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry LGBTIQSB+
  • My hesitation wasn't a fear of homophobia—we were probably too young to get hate-crimed, anyway, although I worried sometimes for Jerick, who was so girlish.2016, Sam Lansky, The Gilded Razor: A Memoir, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry hate-crime
  • Not homophobia but a kind of homocurious buzz was swirling around us, turning us into objects of gossip but also of generosity and attention.2015, Joshua Gamson, “My New Kentucky Baby”, in Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship, New York, N.Y.; London: New…. From the entry homocurious
  • Perhaps, in these days of homophobia, and pedophobia, ANYONE associated with the educational system that isn't totally straight, and moral, is considered a threat.2007 October 20, Ron Hunter, “Character information from Jo [i.e., J. K. Rowling]”, in alt.fan.harry-potter (Usenet), archived from the…. From the entry pedophobia
  • When you drop AIDS in any one particular social system, you see the prejudice — to be specific, the homophobia and the addictophobia.1988 December 4, Judy Harris, Larry Kessler, “Going Public”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 21, page 16. From the entry addictophobia
  • If an authority exists other than that of the pigs, gay victims of homophobia will not have to check in (into protective custody).1980 February 16, Ed Mead, “untitled”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 29, page 8. From the entry check in
  • Pasha was deeply troubled by the new state-sanctioned homophobia of President Vladimir Putin’s followers, and their calls for the recriminalisation of homosexuality and the denial of transgender rights.2015 November 12, Mark Gevisser, “The transgender woman fighting for the right to see her son”, in The Guardian. From the entry recriminalisation
  • Lady Gaga delivered a personalized video message to some of her "little monsters" at a west-end Toronto high school Friday supporting an assembly against bullying and homophobia.2011 November 26, Victoria Ahearn, “Lady Gaga sends message of love”, in The Chronicle Herald. From the entry little monster
  • The argument that homophobia or homomisia was never part of the indigenous communities but was introduced by Europeans during the colonial era is an interesting assertion.2010, Masiiwa Ragies Gunda, The Bible and Homosexuality in Zimbabwe. From the entry homomisia
  • It is a technosexual dominance marked by order, control, and precision, one which seeks to reduce the Other to disorder, chaos, and destruction through discourses of homophobia and masculinity.2007, Ashley Dawson, Malini Johar Schueller, Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism, page 167. From the entry technosexual
  • That's not to say that all the slashers who slash in a "modern-era" show deal with AIDS, homophobia and other gay issues, but some of them do.1997 December 17, ASCEM, quoting Ruth Gifford, “Re: An Interesting Question, re Slash vs. Gay Fiction”, in…. From the entry slash

Meaning of homophobia

  1. noun Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals.
  2. noun Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards LGBTQ people in general.
  3. noun A pathological fear of mankind.

Full definition of homophobia

Questions about homophobia in a sentence

How do you use homophobia in a sentence?
Homophobia is used as a noun. For example: “He lost his homophobia when he was befriended and looked after by his gay neighbors, a doctor and a nurse, in Little Rock.”
What is a short sentence with homophobia?
“Is it knee jerk pedophile-phobia, homophobia or Celebrity-o-phobia?”
What does homophobia mean?
Homophobia means hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals.

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