homoantagonism

English

Etymology

homo- + antagonism

Noun

homoantagonism (uncountable)

  1. Hostile or violent behaviour toward gay people.
    • 2002, Bianca Della Marie Wilson & Robin Lin Miller, "Strategies for Managing Hetereosexism Used Among African American Gay and Bisexual Men", Journal of Black Psychology, Volume 28, Number 4, November 2002, page 381:
      Engaging in homoantagonism (taunting and possibly behaving violently toward gays), avoiding public intimacy with men, "acting like a thug/hard criminal," and "butching up," defined by one interviewee as "acting manly" and "cocking your hat back" (kp 36), are macho extreme behaviours.
    • 2015, Shamira A. Meghani, "Queer South Asian Muslims: the ethnic closet and its secular limits", in Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, Religion, Representations (eds. Claire Chambers & ‎Caroline Herbert), Routledge (2015), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
      Both Indian homeland and transoceanic East African and US diasporas are represented in contexts of racism, Orientalism, and homoantagonism, but in ways that cut across intersections of oppression that lean one way and, instead, critique, celebrate, and complicate geographies, ethnicities, patriarchies, religions, and sexualities.
    • 2015, Treva B. Lindsey, "Let Me Blow Your Mind: Hip Hop Feminist Futures in Theory and Praxis", Urban Education, Volume 50, Number 1, January 2015, pages 57:
      Collectively, hip-hop feminist theorists developed new ideas about and approaches to eradicating patriarchy, misogyny, homoantagonism, and transphobia both within hip-hop and in our communities.
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:homoantagonism.
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