homofascism

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noun

A political stance that associates fascism with homosexuality.

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Meanings

nounhomofascism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA political stance that associates fascism with homosexuality.

    At its worst, it [the art film] seems politically reactionary, tending toward homofascism.

    2013, Daniel Humphrey, Queer Bergman: Sexuality, Gender, and the European Art Cinema
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    Consequently, his position indirectly suggests that perverse societies produce perverse individuals, an ideological stance that very much mirrors a discourse that during the postwar period was primarily observed in literary circles: homofascism.

    2007, Alison Guenther-Pal, Projecting Deviance/Seeing Queerly, page 60

    Critics of my project may charge that I risk, if not embodying the very homofascism Hewitt seeks to deconstruct, then at least mimicking it symptomatically.

    2013, John Champagne, Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy, page 17
  2. derogatoryuncountableAggressive support for gay rights.

    Homofascism is dedicated to the proposition that anyone who does not believe homosexuality is normal should be fired, disenfranchised, imprisoned, or "harried out of the land."

    2008, No One, “Re: GOD is sending homosexuals a message in California, "Mend your ways, or burn in HELL!"”, in alt.politics.homosexuality (Usenet)
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    If anything, Christians are guilty of standing idly and silently by as creeping homofascism left its depraved bedroom and wormed its way into our public schools, our media, our television shows and Hollywood pictures, and even into our churches and the highest positions in our government and military.

    2011, Democrats Destroy Society, “Re: Southern Poverty Law Center's Despicable Lies”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet)

    […] speakers included many GOP hopefuls, and the themes focused on “spiritual warfare” against the demonic manifestations of “militant Islam”, “militant homofascism” and progressives who would establish a “secular humanist caliphate”.

    2018, Peter van der Veer, Prayer and Politics

Origin

From homo- + fascism.

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