gayphobia

English

Etymology

From gay +‎ -phobia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡeɪˈfoʊbiə/
• Hyphenation: gay‧pho‧bia

Noun

gayphobia (uncountable)

1. Fear, dislike, or hatred of gay men.
   • 2010, Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers, Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural School Psychology, page 524:

     Homophobia concerns lesbians (lesbophobia), gay men (gayphobia), bisexual people (biphobia), and transgender people (transphobia).

   • 2017, Kristina Schulz, The Women's Liberation Movement: Impacts and Outcomes, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 164:

     In fact, gayphobia occupied more media space than lesbophobia.

2. (rare) Fear, dislike, or hatred of gay people in general.

   Synonym: homophobia

   • 2013, Karen K. Kirst-Ashman, Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series: Human Behavior in the Macro Social Environment, page 59:

     A major problem LGBTQ people face is gayphobia or homophobia, the irrational “fear and hatred” of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people (Morrow, 2008, p. 79).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gayphobia.

Antonyms

(antonym(s) of “gay men”):

• lesbophobia

(antonym(s) of “gay people”):

• heterophobia
• straightphobia

Coordinate terms

• biphobia
• homophobia
• lesbophobia
• transphobia

 

Related terms

• biphobe
• biphobic
• gayphobe
• gayphobic
• heterophobe
• heterophobic
• homophobe
• homophobic
• straightphobe
• straightphobic
• transphobe
• transphobic

 

Translations

fear, dislike, or hatred of gay men

fear, dislike or hatred of gay people in general