ANTH 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cultural Rights, Egalitarianism, Allan Hubley
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A form of social discrimination that is not always or only couched in terms of individual hatred or fear it can embrace a range of emotions and it can be socially sanctioned (legitimized through scientific or legal discourses) Homophobia is produced through intersections of different forms of inequality. Dictionary: dislike or mistreatment of people based on their sexual orientation; fear of homosexuals; including ideas of dislike and rejections; expressed by individuals and legislation. Can also exist in wider social contexts such as legislation. Homophobia = social discrimination ; feeling of hatred towards homosexuals. Homophobia can embrace multiple emotions such as love: son coming out to parent who is homophobic who loves his/her son parents may not reject their child but not accept and ask them to change that. In some countries homophobia is implicitly or explicitly illegal. Attitudes towards sexual minorities part of the picture is that homophobia but homophobia is not just about homosexuals.