Exhibiting homophobia; characteristic of homophobes.
homophobic abuse
The nail bomber who killed three people and injured dozens of others in a terrifying campaign last spring told police he was a homophobic Nazi, and that he hoped the explosions would "set fire to the country and stir up a racial war", the Old Bailey heard yesterday.2000 June 6, Nick Hopkins, “The bomber who tried to unleash a race war”, in The Guardian:
My bus left right as I got to the station. It's so homophobic of the driver to not wait for me!
It's homophobic that I'm not cuddling my girlfriend right now.
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Internet, Humorous Having different colored eyes. Deliberate misspelling of heterochromic.
both our algorithms are blessed with homophobic beauty 🥰😍2025 November 15, u/_kainos_, “Beautiful homophobic deaf cat🧡💙”, in r/catswithhomophobia (Reddit post), archived from the original on 28 Nov 2025:
Painful as skid row life is for everyone, it becomes doubly so for the gay segment of the population. If you can for a moment visualize yourself living in a house with hundreds of homophobics you have the idea; and there are few closets where one can hide.1981 August 1, Ray Thompson, “Down and Out and Gay”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
If you say something negative about homosexuals, you will be labelled an intolerant "homophobic."2007, William D. Gairdner, The War Against the Family:
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When placed in a situation that threatens to excite their repressed or latent sexual preferences, homophobics tend to react with panic, anger, and hostility as a means to avert or deny the threat (West, 1977).2016, Ralph Erber, Maureen Erber, Intimate Relationships: Issues, Theories, and Research, Second Edition: