I agree completely. To repeat an old FR post of mine, "the typical negative reaction to gays and particularly to gay male sex is one of disgust, not fear. A more honest society would have a word that described that reaction." Being disgusted by "Brokeback Mountain" is not a sign of any mental pathology.
I have been trying to get people to use the term homoaverse instead of homophobic, and homoaversion instead of homophobia. Right now there are just six Google hits for homoaverse, and eight for homoaversion, so my attempt at language reform is not as successful as I would like. Still, if enough people use the words then they will enter the language, so please feel free to use them. People understand homoaverse and homoaversion immediately, without looking them up in a dictionary.
Homoaversion is perfectly normal in heterosexuals.
BTW I do not mean to imply here that homophobia does not exist. I think that pathological, irrational homophobic bigotry can be found in both liberals and conservatives, especially among males who are uncertain of their own sexuality. Homophobia is not hard to find here on FR. Some FR posters seem to believe that gays are an invading alien race, conspiring to take over the planet. I have lived around enough gays to know that they are all too human.
I hope we find out the full story of what happened to this gay kid. I just know that if he provoked the shooter, which seems likely to me, that it will not be reported by the MSM. It would not fit their "gays can only be victims" template.
you sir/madam have hit the nail on the head so to speak.
Everytime I hear the word homophobic I haver to adress the person and correct them, of course the liberals try to do what they do best and name call anyone who does not have their same view.
I am past that now, it does not bother me nor will I lose any sleep over it however I will correct people when they say homophobic.
I think it is a sick disgusting perverted act, I think the people who do this posrt of acts need mental help but I am not scared of these people nor am I living in fear I think it is sick and tell people this now.
I find that putting a picture into someones mind usual makes them come around to my ivew and in the end they too cringe at the thought.
I only hope more people like you and I start to challenge these pathetic name callers and let the left, the libs and the gays that the censorship by name calling does not work no more.
again very good post by you