Quote

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

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.

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

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.

What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.

I'm not homophobic.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

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 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.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.