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homophobiaphobia

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English

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Etymology

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From homophobia +‎ -phobia.

Noun

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homophobiaphobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare, often sarcastic) Antipathy towards homophobia and/or homophobes.
    • 2001 July 3, Bruce Vilanch, “That's Myth Tom to you”, in The Advocate, page 40:
      Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce "homophobiaphobia" — the fear not of homosexuals but of homophobes.
    • 2010, Jim Elledge, Queers in American Popular Culture, Volume 1, page 197:
      Williams's gay critics seem caught in this circular homophobiaphobia, in which the closet is obsessively opened and closed, its limits marked and remarked, its positive and negative charged and recharged.
    • 2015, Korhonen, quoted in Susanna Paasonen, "A Midsummer's Bonfire: Affective Intensities of Online Debate", in Networked Affect (eds. Ken Hillis, Susanna Paasonen, & Michael Petit), page 38:
      uh huh. people sure know how to be annoyed about no matter what these days. problem here seems to be homophobiaphobia rather than homophobia. :)
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:homophobiaphobia.

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