homophobiaphobia

noun

Antipathy towards homophobia or homophobes.

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homophobophobia
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Meanings

nounhomophobiaphobia (uncountable)
  1. oftenraresarcasticuncountableAntipathy towards homophobia or homophobes.

    Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce "homophobiaphobia" — the fear not of homosexuals but of homophobes.

    2001 July 3, Bruce Vilanch, “That's Myth Tom to you”, in The Advocate, page 40
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    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.

    2010, Jim Elledge, Queers in American Popular Culture, Volume 1, page 197

    uh huh. people sure know how to be annoyed about no matter what these days. problem here seems to be homophobiaphobia rather than homophobia. :)

    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

    Synonyms: homophobophobia

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAntipathy towards homophobia or homophobes.

Similar
homophobophobia
Also see
homophobophobia

Origin

From homophobia + -phobia.

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