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Is homophobia a “phobia”?

From Out.com, why is the corrupt gay politico still around? Conservatives and “homo-bestiality”: Why do right-wing extremists keep linking gay sex to animal abuse? Dan Savage talks about his campaign to help gay kids — and why the GOP primary results freaked him out. Growing up gay in the 1990s: Has that much changed for today's gay youth? An interview with Mark McCormack, author of The Declining Significance of Homophobia: How Teenage Boys Are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality. Is homophobia a "phobia"? There is now empirical evidence that homophobia can result from the suppression of same-sex desire. Here are the ten hottest homophobes on the Internet. When the facts don't matter: Same-sex marriage isn't hurting anyone — so why are so many people still afraid of it? An interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, editor of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform. A review of The End of Straight Supremacy: Realizing Gay Liberation by Shannon Gilreath. A review of Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey Mogul, Andrea Ritchie and Kay Whitlock.