[ noun ] prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality <noun.cognition>
homophobia \hom`o*pho"bi*a\, n. A strong dislike or fear of homosexuals, especially to an unreasonable degree. [PJC]
"The primariy impact I wanted to have was on the conservative community, to alert them to the dangers of homophobia and all that comes with it," Liebman said in an interview today.
Dare to express the smallest reservations about their assertions that 'Aids is equally dangerous to everyone, heterosexual as much as homosexual' and you will be accused of homophobia. Knee-jerk response programmes are still being made.
As one administrator put it in 1986, "We at the University of Pennsylvania have guaranteed students and the community that they can live in a community free of sexism, racism and homophobia."