Heterophobia - What does it mean?
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Fear or resentment of what is different.
* 2013 , Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (ISBN 0745673201), page 116:
Fear or resentment of heterosexuals.
* 2004/2005 , Abigail Garner, Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is , pages 213–214:
* 2011 , Mark S. Kiselica, ?Matt Englar-Carlson, ?Arthur M. Horne, Counseling Troubled Boys: A Guidebook for Professionals (page 253)
Fear or resentment of the opposite sex.
heterophobia
English
Noun
(-)- Taguieff writes synonimically(SIC) of racism and heterophobia' (resentment of the different).
- voiced concern about what they called "heterophobia'"—they wished their parents weren't so negative and distrusting of straight people. Even suggesting that ' heterophobia exists for these children understandably evokes angry and skeptical responses because homo-hostile people have used the same word to support a bogus claim that gay rights discrimination against heterosexuals.
- Some gay and lesbian counselors may need to reflect on another bias referred to as heterophobia , which is fear or dislike of heterosexuals