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I'm not homophobic.

I was homophobic because I obviously didn't know that I was gay.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not racist. I'm not against any people. All I have for people is love.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

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

I am not homophobic - in no way, shape or form.

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 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.

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.

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