Homophobia and its Victims

• In Event: Homophobia and its Representations: Families, Identity and Identification

Abstract

Everyone suffers from the effects of homophobia in society. Obvious victims are the gay and lesbian individuals who are insulted, humiliated, denied privileges, or otherwise silenced in fear of their careers or of society’s wrath. The less obvious victims of homophobia are the non-gay and non-lesbian individuals—the rest of us who think that homophobia is someone else’s problem. It is not. This is what I am going to discuss in this essay.

Author

• Omar Swartz, University of Colorado, Denver