{"id":5827,"date":"2021-12-09T21:44:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enorcerna.com\/wiki\/psychology\/the-15-types-of-homophobia-and-their-characteristics\/"},"modified":"2021-12-09T21:44:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:44:18","slug":"the-15-types-of-homophobia-and-their-characteristics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enorcerna.com\/wiki\/psychology\/the-15-types-of-homophobia-and-their-characteristics\/","title":{"rendered":"The 15 types of Homophobia (and their characteristics)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the greatest achievements that we have had as a society is that of, in recent decades and despite the fact that there are still people with an archaic mentality, to accept that each person is free to love whoever they want. And although homosexuality is as old as humanity itself, it has been condemned<\/strong> by many religious texts, which have come to consider it as an \"unnatural\" act.<\/p>\n

And, unfortunately, homophobia is also very old. And despite the improvements that, especially in recent decades, we have achieved, this irrational hatred towards the homosexual community, although it may seem incredible, continues to be valid in the world in which we live. The sexual liberation movements of the 1970s marked a turning point, but there is still a lot of work to do.<\/p>\n

Homophobia, which is defined as the rejection and rage towards homosexual people and homosexuality in general, manifests itself with attitudes of hatred and contempt that, being able to be more or less violent, dangerous and degrading for this group, start from the base that loving someone of the same sex is a bad thing.<\/p>\n

But, Is homophobia always expressed in the same way? No. Not much less<\/strong>. And being aware of this is a very important step for, as a society, to fight for homophobia to disappear. Therefore, in today's article and with the desire that, as a reader, you can recognize the homophobic attitudes that can occur around us, we are going to see the different types of homophobia that exist.<\/p>\n

What are the kinds of homophobia?<\/h2>\n

Homophobia is the irrational hatred, rejection and rage towards homosexual people<\/strong>. It is an aversion to homosexuality itself that is based on prejudice, intolence and ignorance. It is also the main trigger for discrimination not only towards gays and lesbians, but also against all members of the LGBT community, being able to express itself, unfortunately and as we see in the news, in violent acts of hatred, including murders.<\/p>\n

Now, beyond this general definition of one of the greatest evils in today's society, homophobia can express itself in many different ways. And it is very important that we know how to recognize them all in order to punish these behaviors and, little by little, build a society where homophobia does not exist. A society where each person is fully free to love whoever they want and feel how they want to feel without fear of being discriminated against.<\/p>\n

Therefore, below We are going to detail the different types of homophobia depending on both the context in which it is expressed and the way it does it<\/strong>. Thus, we will be able to know all kinds of homophobic behavior and discrimination towards homosexual people. Let us begin.<\/p>\n

1. Behavioral homophobia<\/h3>\n

Behavioral homophobia is one in which people with homophobic behaviors discriminate against gay people for the simple fact of being gay<\/strong>, without hiding behind any foundation. They do not ask why they reject homosexuals. They simply do it, carrying out acts of verbal or physical violence towards the group and promoting hatred towards it.<\/p>\n

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2. Cognitive homophobia<\/h3>\n

Cognitive homophobia is one in which people with homophobic behaviors are based on biological criteria that, in their opinion, explain the rejection of homosexual people. They are people who consider homosexuality as something that goes against nature and biological evolution.<\/p>\n

3. Cultural homophobia<\/h3>\n

Cultural homophobia designates all those stereotypes that have been passed down through the generations<\/strong> and that lead us, even without realizing it and without bad intentions, to develop subtle homophobic behaviors based on prejudices that we do unconsciously.<\/p>\n

4. Institutional homophobia<\/h3>\n

By institutional homophobia we understand that which emerges from the normative standards of both private and public organizations. In most advanced countries, this homophobia no longer exists, but in states that base their laws on religion, it does. In very conservative and not very tolerant countries, this homophobia that is born from the institutions themselves is very harmful for the collective, which does not feel protected by their country.<\/p>\n

5. Learned homophobia<\/h3>\n

Learned homophobia is one that is based on gender roles established and imposed by society and that, although they are not directly stated, permeate the collective intellect, causing homosexuality to be seen as something not very masculine (in the case of men) or not very feminine (in the case of women).<\/p>\n

6. Internalized homophobia<\/h3>\n

Internalized homophobia is one that, also known as internalized homophobia, is based on the rejection that a homosexual person feels towards himself for the fact of being homosexual<\/strong>. And it is that despite being homosexual, he feels aversion for this homosexuality, as it is a facet of his personality that he is still discovering and that he does not accept. It is based on dissatisfaction, but it tends to fade over time.<\/p>\n

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7. Homophobia in heterosexuals<\/h3>\n

Homophobia in heterosexuals is, in quotation marks, the opposite of the interior. And it is about the aversion that heterosexual people feel towards homosexuals<\/strong>. That is, unlike the internalized one, in which a homosexual person rejects homosexuality, in this case, a heterosexual person rejects homosexuality. It is, as we can guess, the most common way. It should be noted, however, that many studies suggest that a large part of homophobic people are homophobic as a strategy to repress their homosexual desires.<\/p>\n

8. Affective homophobia<\/h3>\n

Affective homophobia is one that is based on the rejection felt when interacting with a homosexual person or with the aversion that a homophobic person experiences when being how two homosexual people show affection or affection in public. Thus, it is based both on the rejection of contact with homosexuals and on the \"disgust\" they feel when seeing how two people of the same sex love each other.<\/p>\n

9. Personal homophobia<\/h3>\n

Personal homophobia is one that is not expressed externally, but remains at the individual level. That is, a person, from his private point of view, considers heterosexuality as something superior to homosexuality and rejects everything associated with homosexuality. But he keeps it to himself. It neither exercises nor promotes discrimination towards the group<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

10. Interpersonal homophobia<\/h3>\n

In contrast, interpersonal homophobia is one that is based on exercising and promoting discrimination against the homosexual community. A person does not keep his homophobic thoughts to himself, but externalizes them to other people. Therefore, this is the truly harmful to society.<\/p>\n

11. Warm homophobia<\/h3>\n

By \u201cwarm\u201d homophobia we understand all those homophobic expressions in which the person or institution that develops them does not hate or reject homosexuality directly, but they do is against the members of this group having the same rights<\/strong> than those that have historically been exclusive to heterosexual people. The clearest example is that of those who consider that homosexuals should neither be able to adopt nor marry.<\/p>\n

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12. Radical homophobia<\/h3>\n

By radical homophobia we understand all those forms of homophobic discrimination towards the homosexual community based on extreme behaviors of hatred towards them. Physical violence, harassment, insults, apology for aggressions, humiliations and even murders are part of this scourge of society that represents radical homophobia.<\/p>\n

One aspect of this is known as prohibitionist homophobia, which, although it does not include acts of physical violence, does adopt an extreme position when condemning homosexuality through prohibitions implemented for homosexual people.<\/p>\n

13. Morbid homophobia<\/h3>\n

Morbid homophobia is one in which homophobic people who discriminate against the homosexual community do so because consider homosexuality a disease<\/strong> and even, at times, as a contagious disease. This infamous idea has its origin in all the prejudices that in ancient eras in which homosexuality was persecuted and punished with death (something that, unfortunately, continues to occur in certain countries of the world), since it was considered an act that violated the religious writings.<\/p>\n

14. Oppositional homophobia<\/h3>\n

Denialism it is an ideology that, incomprehensibly, is present in all areas of society. Thus, oppositional homophobia is one in which homophobic behavior is based on denying the existence of homosexuality as an innate characteristic of people, considering it as a decision that could be easily avoided. So they believe that homosexuality does not exist.<\/p>\n

15. Avoidant homophobia<\/h3>\n

Avoidant homosexuality is one in which homophobic people flee from contact with homosexual people<\/strong>, either because they believe that this homosexuality is a contagious disease or because they feel reluctance to feel physical contact with someone who likes people of the same sex. As we see, many of the forms of homophobia that we have seen can be interrelated. And knowing them is the first step to combat this discrimination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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