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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.

— Jillian Michaels

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Zak Orth

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

— Dan Savage

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 their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

— Coretta Scott King

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

— Rupert Murdoch

I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.

— ASAP Rocky

I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States.

— Tim Hardaway

I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world.

— Lesley Gore

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Scott Fujita