Quote: "Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who identify or are perceived as being lesbian, gay, or bisexual."
Negative attitudes towards homosexuality based on fear or ignorance.
Gender Identity: The way that someone identifies their gender, which may be different from the sex they were assigned at birth.
Sexual Orientation: The gender(s) of people to whom someone is attracted.
Homophobia: The irrational fear or hatred of individuals who identify as LGBTQ+.
Heterosexism: The belief that heterosexuality is the norm and superiority preference.
Discrimination: Unjust or prejudicial treatment of individuals who identify as LGBTQ+.
Stigma: A mark of disgrace or shame associated with identifying as LGBTQ+.
Microaggressions: Subtle, often unintentional, forms of discrimination against individuals who identify as LGBTQ+.
Coming Out: The process of revealing one’s LGBTQ+ identity to others.
LGBTQ+ Allyship: An ally is a person who supports and stands up for the rights of individuals who identify as LGBTQ+.
LGBTQ+ history: Understanding the history of the LGBTQ+ community and its challenges.
Intersectionality: The interconnected nature of social categories such as race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status, and how they impact an individual's experiences.
Conversion therapy: Attempts to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity through abusive practices.
Safety and Legal Rights: Access to legal protections and safe environments for individuals who identify as LGBTQ+.
Education and Awareness: Education on the issues of gender identity and sexual orientation to diminish homophobia and discrimination.
Advocacy and Activism: Mobilizing for social justice and progressing LGBTQ+ rights through both individual and organized efforts.
Quote: "It has been defined as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred, or antipathy, may be based on irrational fear, and may sometimes be related to religious beliefs."
Quote: "Homophobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientations that are non-heterosexual."
Quote: "Recognized types of homophobia include institutionalized homophobia, e.g. religious homophobia and state-sponsored homophobia, and internalized homophobia..."
Quote: "Internalized homophobia is experienced by people who have same-sex attractions, regardless of how they identify."
Quote: "Negative attitudes toward identifiable LGBT groups have similar yet specific names: lesbophobia is the intersection of homophobia and sexism directed against lesbians."
Quote: "Gayphobia is the dislike or hatred of gay men."
Quote: "Biphobia targets bisexuality and bisexual people."
Quote: "Transphobia targets transgender and transsexual people and gender variance or gender role nonconformity."
Quote: "According to 2010 Hate Crimes Statistics released by the FBI National Press Office, 19.3 percent of hate crimes across the United States 'were motivated by a sexual orientation bias.'"
Quote: "LGBT people were 'far more likely than any other minority group in the United States to be victimized by violent hate crime.'"
Quote: "Recognized types of homophobia include institutionalized homophobia, e.g., religious homophobia and state-sponsored homophobia..."
Quote: "Homophobia may sometimes be related to religious beliefs."
Quote: "According to 2010 Hate Crimes Statistics released by the FBI National Press Office, 19.3 percent of hate crimes across the United States 'were motivated by a sexual orientation bias.'"
Quote: "It has been defined as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred, or antipathy, may be based on irrational fear..."
Quote: "Lesbophobia is the intersection of homophobia and sexism directed against lesbians."
Quote: "Gayphobia is the dislike or hatred of gay men."
Quote: "Biphobia targets bisexuality and bisexual people."
Quote: "Transphobia targets transgender and transsexual people and gender variance or gender role nonconformity."
Quote: "In a Southern Poverty Law Center 2010 Intelligence Report extrapolating data from FBI national hate crime statistics...found that LGBT people were 'far more likely than any other minority group in the United States to be victimized by violent hate crime.'"