Frank Ocean

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

American Musician

Megan Rapinoe

Maybe you are homophobic a little bit, but then you see me, and you've always loved me, and you love the way I play, and your kids love me. And then you're like, 'Oh, that's OK. It's fine.' Once it gets a little bit more personal, it helps break down those barriers.

American Athlete

Nicky Morgan

We've been clear that schools shouldn't just tackle direct homophobic bullying, but also the use of phrases like 'that's so gay' to mean rubbish or bad, because we know the devastating impact they can have on young people's self-esteem.

British Politician

Kirk Franklin

Sometimes it feels very homophobic when people try to make their stance and their beliefs, and there's been some very painful, ugly things that have been said... that not have always been in the essence of a heart for Christ.

American Singer

Scott Fujita

I think for far too long there was this perception, or I guess I would call it a misperception, that our locker rooms in the NFL are extremely homophobic, and that could not be further from the truth.

Lesley Gore

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.

George Carey

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

English Clergyman

Michael Cimino

They've said everything about me that they could: racist, Marxist, rightist, homophobic, sex change - I don't know what else they could come up with.

American Director

Dennis Miller

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

American Comedian

Nelsan Ellis

There are homophobic people in my family. They're deeply religious.

American Actor

The term 'homophobic' carries a strong negative connotation, indicating prejudice and discrimination.

Negative Connotation

Using 'homophobic' can provoke strong emotions; it accuses someone of being prejudiced.

Emotional Impact

Awareness of cultural differences is important; some cultures might not recognize 'homophobic' as a concept.

Cultural Sensitivity

 Now, I know it's a bit pompous, my response, but it's an important distinction, because I don't believe that what we need is sensitivity training. We need leadership training, because, for example, when a professional coach or a manager of a baseball team or a football team -- and I work extensively in that realm as well -- makes a sexist comment, makes a homophobic statement,

Jackson Katz: Violence...

 there are many people who have a predisposition to authoritarianism. Those people aren't particularly racist when they feel as through there's not a threat to our social and moral order. But if you prime them experimentally by thinking we're coming apart, people are getting more different, then they get more racist, homophobic, they want to kick out the deviants.

Can a divided America...

 time ago he said it would be the undoing of our sanity and that's exactly what's happening we are acting like fools because of what we see on television and a leader that spends a lot of time on television saying racist sexist ageist homophobic ethics ethnocentric things our students don't it shouldn't have to

LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...

 is the ability to live safely. The ability to walk down the street in drag and not have some homophobic passerby do what he did to me. And the way we do that is by doing some shame-work. It's about looking inside and realizing that all the boxes that had been put there by the world are a lie.

Crystal Rasmussen: A...

 So what happens when you look different and you feel different, and in many ways, start to think differently from everyone and everything around you? How do you find your way out of a dark, racist, homophobic and very lonely place? This is where the pen comes in. I started to draw.

Shantell Martin: How...

 Let that family eat." Well, it didn't take me long to realize that racial injustice wasn't the only place that people in the majority were staying quiet. When I'd sit in church and hear some homophobic comment being disguised as something scriptural,

Want a more just world?...

 Either you are a racist or a sexist or a homophobe or you're not. And in this either-or definition, there's no room to grow. And by the way, this is not what we do in most parts of our lives. Life, if you needed to learn accounting,

How to let go of being a...

 But, sadly, across the continent, there was wide spread support for these homophobic laws, and it became a very difficult topic for me with my African friends. Sadly, people that I respected and who's time I enjoyed being with,

"Where Love Is Illegal":...

 gotten people who are upset that i was putting effort hiv aids i mean a lot of that was people who were homophobic uh and felt i was diverting resources to people that they didn't think should be part of society obviously

Stopping Pandemics, An...

 Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent. If a newspaper ran some racist or homophobic column, we realized we could do something about it. We could get them.

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