HOMOPHOBIA

= HATRED OF HOMOSEXUALS

OR

= FEAR OF BEING HOMOSEXUAL

PREJUDICE << RACISM

Thus = learned behavior

TYPES

I. INSTITUTIONAL HOMOPHOBIA

ANTI-GAY LAWS OR CHRUCH PRONOUNCEMENTS

IDEOLOGY DICTATED TO

1. MAINTAIN GENDER ROLES

2. PROCREATE

II. INDIVIDUAL HOMOPHOBIA

1. open hostility

2. heterosexual "worldview" (assumption all one's friends are heterosexual)

3. appeals to fundamentalist, authoritarian types

4. hate crimes

5. psychological origins

a. from unconscious

b. from ignorance

c. from psychological needs to gain social approval

III. INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA

= rejection of one's own homosexual orientation

B. COUNTERING HOMOPHOBIA:

I. APA DECLASSIFICATION

LIBERAL CHURCHES

OVERTURNING OF SODOMY LAWS

II. APPEALS TO OTHER VALUES:

NEED TO BE LOVING

NEED TO BE TOLERANT

NEED TO SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS

III. CONTACT WITH GAYS

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