lesbiphobia

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A form of lesbophobia — Fear, dislike, or hatred of lesbians (female homosexuals).

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounlesbiphobia (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of lesbophobia.

    However, the series itself betrays its own lesbiphobia through the discriminatory treatment of the characters' sexual life.

    2013, Sara E. Cooper, Lesbian Images in International Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 39
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    Yet truth be told the most concentrated lesbiphobia and backlash—the kind that inspires compulsory silence—can be found among the multiracial, hip hop CD-purchasing public.

    2008, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women, →ISBN

    The lack of cultural and academic background on drag kings' cross-dressing may point to more subtle questions that should be approached in further studies, thus underlying the layers of sexism and lesbiphobia (not to say butchphobia or transphobia) that exist inside and outside the academia.

    2008, Maite Escudero-Alías, Long Live the King: A Genealogy of Performative Genders, →ISBN, page 65

    Even while realizing the function of the public bath in the local culture, Yazbek's invocation of the orientalist vision, which treats the public bath as a sexualized space, generates voyeurism and invites lesbiphobia to a homosocial space.

    2013, Saskia Wieringa, Horacio Sívori, The Sexual History of the Global South, →ISBN
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APA

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Chicago

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