Top 190 Homophobia Quotes & Sayings

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

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

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.

I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia.

You know, people do call it homophobia, and even that term alone is interesting to me. Because I don't even know how they call it homophobia, because that's a fear of the same. It's more heterophobia. It's a fear of something different from yourself.

You can have all of the laws and protection in place, but how do you get rid of homophobia? This is something that the U.S. is going to have to deal with.

There is no such thing as homophobia. It is not a fear. It is you being an asshole.

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

Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

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

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them.

Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

Homophobia, transphobia, and sexism, they're all rooted in the same prejudice: the belief that one perception at birth - the sex we are assigned - should dictate who we are, who we love, how we act, and what we do.

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

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

You just can't say lesbianism hurts women's golf. It's more correct to say homophobia does.

Homophobia is real in this country.

Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is ‘normal’. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.

I have no patience for homophobia.

If we actually supported these gay artists and pumped money behind them the same way they pump money behind these divas, a conversation of homophobia in hip hop wouldn't be. Because I would have the money and the revenue coming in. It's not about homophobia or who's going to push back. It's all about who's supporting you and where there's money from.

Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country - be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia.

I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.

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

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

Of all the sicknesses, there is probably none more abusive than homophobia.

We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community.

I've had the experience of going through homophobia in my work, and I can share my experiences so future generations don't have to deal with what I've dealt with.

Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...

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

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.

We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.

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

Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.

Rescind the appointment of [Steve] Bannon. We will not be involved in the expansion of bigotry, of racism, sexism, homophobia.

This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.

There are more scriptural reasons to oppose homophobia than to oppose homosexuality.

If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into a country, this also means importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.

There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.

Pride became this dogma which meant you couldn't criticize anything gay - if you were the least bit critical of gay culture or people or any gay person doing any gay thing, that was an insufficient display of pride. You were suffering from internalized homophobia. As opposed to external homophobia.

My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're standing for the dignity of all people, and that you're actually standing for the underdog in the red states and the blue states. I think it's more effective when you're anti-racism and anti-sexism and anti-homophobia and that is the centerpiece for a project to uplift all humanity, and frankly to defend and uplift the children of all species.

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

I won't do press anymore unless I can talk about the homophobia and let queer people know our ideas are mainstream.

My truth is I am gay and out, and if I can't do that in my music, then I don't need it. Fortunately, I do feel like there is a movement against homophobia, and I hope to be part of that.

I'm angry because homophobia is still a thing.

... demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.

No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn't make it any less loud. You can't whisper hate.

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

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

It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.

I know about homophobia in the music industry - not just in hip-hop. Obviously, we're dealing with homophobia in hip-hop; we're dealing with homophobia in the black community.

Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.

I have watched as a people and as a country and a culture over the course of my teenage-into-adulthood life, and I do still think there is a tremendous amount of homophobia that exists.

There's entrenched homophobia behind the scenes at all levels of the music industry.

I'm usually in control of the room, but if I sense some kind of hostility, I address it. Occasionally, there are pockets of homophobia, and it's not just the South - it's all over the country.