Homophobia Quotes

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

— George Weinberg

I have no patience for homophobia.

— Dan Levy

Being gay is being gay. Period.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Homophobia is gay.

— Frank Iero

Homophobia is real in this country.

— Kamala Harris

Being gay makes me glad even when I'm sad.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

“Either you are homophobic or you are a human - you cannot be both.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

— Kathy Acker

Homophobia cannot be fought with heterophobia.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

— George Weinberg

“Accepting evil is worse than committing evil.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I don't think homophobia is brilliant.

— Fearne Cotton

“Privilege is presuming to speak for others you know nothing about.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Our interest is in showing that homophobia is not part of the agenda for a new Africa.

— Wangechi Mutu

“['non-white' gay men] are run over at the intersection of racism and homophobia”

— Eric C. Wat

I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far…

— Marlon James

There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on…

— Leslie Jordan

Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.

— Andrew Sullivan

“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and criticize others who have to fight for the things you take for…

— DaShanne Stokes

“El amor no tiene género, la compasión no tiene religión, el carácter no tiene raza”

— Abhijit Naskar

If you were to ask Tony Dungy if he feels like homophobia is in his level of thinking or if he's homophobic,…

— Jason Collins

We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of…

— Urvashi Vaid

You know, people do call it homophobia, and even that term alone is interesting to me. Because I don't even know how…

— Scott Fujita

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never,…

— Anna Quindlen

I fully feel like racism, homophobia, and transphobia are all rooted in classism. If you don't know what it was like to…

— Ethel Cain

Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls.…

— Warren Farrell

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability -…

— Hal Duncan

“The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful…

— Mark A. Roeder

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game,…

— Audre Lorde

“To some perhaps it may appear a little strained to place this last-mentioned form of attachment on a level of importance with…

— Edward Carpenter

“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of…

— Hannah Arendt

Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not…

— Orson Scott Card

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating…

— Orson Scott Card

“Can you imagine, somebody telling you, your love for your dearly beloved is a sin! Can you imagine, somebody telling you, women…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Jill... had explained homosexuality, after Mike had read about it and failed to grok--and had given him rules for avoiding passes; she…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it…

— Kate Millett

I do think homophobia is rife, as it always has been.

— Tan France

It was my own internalised homophobia. I didn't want to be gay.

— Jane Lynch

Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.

— David Furnish