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

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

— Tan France

Homophobia is the idiocy in person. It's a harmful and destructive behavior that must be discouraged by all and every peaceful but rather effective…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news…

— Barney Frank

Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so its probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

— Zak Orth

Homophobia is gay.

— Frank Iero

There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is.

— Rupert Everett

Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so…

— Cornel West

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

— George Weinberg

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny…

— Coretta Scott King

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

— George Weinberg

I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.

— Eric Andre