homophobiaphobia

English

Etymology

homophobia +‎ -phobia

Noun

homophobiaphobia (uncountable)

1. (rare, often sarcastic) Antipathy towards homophobia and/or homophobes.
   • 2001 July 3, Bruce Vilanch, “That's Myth Tom to you”, in The Advocate, page 40:

     Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce "homophobiaphobia" — the fear not of homosexuals but of homophobes.

   • 2010, Jim Elledge, Queers in American Popular Culture, Volume 1, page 197:

     Williams's gay critics seem caught in this circular homophobiaphobia, in which the closet is obsessively opened and closed, its limits marked and remarked, its positive and negative charged and recharged.

   • 2015, Korhonen, quoted in Susanna Paasonen, "A Midsummer's Bonfire: Affective Intensities of Online Debate", in Networked Affect (eds. Ken Hillis, Susanna Paasonen, & Michael Petit), page 38:

     uh huh. people sure know how to be annoyed about no matter what these days. problem here seems to be homophobiaphobia rather than homophobia. :)

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:homophobiaphobia.

Synonyms

• homophobophobia