homophobia

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards homosexuals.

   “He lost his racism when he worked with a black man in Chicago. He lost his homophobia when he was befriended and looked after by his gay neighbors, a doctor and a nurse, in Little Rock.”

   “Thinly-veiled homophobia – this time in early-2000s Hollywood – made Brokeback Mountain an immense challenge for Ossana and her fellow producer James Schamus.”

2. (broadly, countable, uncountable)Hatred, fear, aversion, or prejudice towards LGBT+ persons in general.
3. (Internet, alt-of, countable, deliberate, humorous, misspelling, uncountable)Deliberate misspelling of heterochromia.

   “A beautiful cat with homophobia in her 💙 eyes 🧡”

   “A dog with homophobia in its eyes ✨✨”

   “beautiful rabbit with homophobia”

4. (obsolete, uncountable)A pathological fear of mankind.