From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Heterophobia
Heterophobia
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Xenophobia Heterophobia describes reverse discrimination based on
Manifestations sexual orientation and implies an irrational fear of, aver-
Blood libel • sion toward, or discrimination against heterosexual peo-
Compulsory sterilization • Disability hate crime • Eco- ple and institutions. Coined as a direct analogy to homo-
nomic • Eliminationism • Employment • Ethnic phobia, "heterophobia" is used by some opponents[1][2]
cleansing • Ethnic joke • Ethnocide • Forced conver- to various legal and civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
sion • Freak show • Gay bashing • Gendercide • Geno- and transgender (LGBT) people.[3]
cide (examples) • Group libel • Hate crime • Hate
speech • Homeless dumping • Housing • Indian History of the term
rolling • LGBT hate crime • Lynching • Mortgage •
Murder Music • Occupational segregation • Pogrom • The term heterophobia was included in the Dictionary of
Racist music • Race war • Religious persecution • Sexuality published in 1995 by American sexologist
Scapegoating • Slavery • Trans-bashing • Victimiza- Robert T. Francoeur, where it was defined as fear of het-
tion • Wife selling • erosexuals. However in 1998 it didn’t appear outside spe-
Witch-hunt cialist literature, though it was already a searchable term
on the World Wide Web.
Policies Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary includes
Age, Racial segregation • the term homophobia, which it traces back to 1958, but
Religious, Sex segregation • Age of candidacy • Blood the book doesn’t include heterophobia, which Raymond J.
quantum • Cleanliness of blood • Apartheid • Ethnoc- Noonan considers to be traceable to the early 1980s.
racy • Gender roles • Gerontocracy • Ghetto benches • The 1990 book Kinsey, Sex and Fraud by Judith A. Reis-
Internment • Jewish quota • Jim Crow laws • MSM man, Edward W. Eichel, J. Gordon Muir, and J. H. Court
blood donor controversy • Numerus clausus (when as included a whole chapter on heterophobia, describing it
a religious or racial quota) • Nuremberg Laws • Racial as a new concept and defining it similarly to Francoeur’s
definition. The term appeared again in 1996 in Raymond
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Heterophobia
J. Noonan’s book Does Anyone Still Remember When Sex Was be one of the root contributors in the etiology of ho-
Fun? where it was equated with the general sex negativ- mophobia, as Noonan argued in 1998. For others, it
ity of the American society and defined a new concept is merely a curiosity or parallel-construction word
called internalized heterophobia. Noonan in a later book game. But for others still, it is part of both the
made the claim that homophobia itself was partially em- recognition and politicization of heterosexuals’ cul-
powered by heterophobia and promoted the adoption of tural interests in contrast to those of
a systems approach by the sexology community in study- gays—particularly where those interests are per-
ing the determinants of sexual attitudes. ceived to clash.
In 1998 the book Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and
the Future of Feminism by Daphne Patai offered the first
comprehensive study of heterophobia outside the sex-
Other uses
ology community. Patai claimed that heterophobia was The term is used by Pierre-André Taguieff in his 1987
linked to what she called the Sexual Harassment Industry book The Force of Prejudice to signify "fear of the differ-
(SHI) which she described as the attempt to keep women ent".
and men separated for selfish and political purposes. Dr The term is used as the title of a poetry anthology by
Noonan on the 6th of November, 1999, organized a work- US slam poet, Ragan Fox.(heterophobia 2005)
shop on heterophobia during the joint annual meeting
of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS)
and the American Association of Sex Educators, Coun-
See also
selors, and Therapists (AASECT) in St. Louis, Missouri, • Biphobia
United States.[4] • Heterosexism
SUNY lecturer Dr. Ray Noonan, in his 1999 presenta- • Homophobia
tion to The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality • List of phobias
(SSSS) and the American Association of Sex Educators,
Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) Conference[4] said, References
The term heterophobia is confusing for some people [1] Kinsey, Sex and Fraud: The Indoctrination of a People.
for several reasons. On the one hand, some look at An Investigation Into the Human Sexuality Research of
it as just another of the many me-too social con- Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin,
structions that have arisen in the pseudoscience of and Paul H. Gebhard by Judith A. Reisman and
victimology in recent decades. (Many of us recall Edward W. Eichel
John Money’s 1995 criticism of the ascendancy of [2] The Complete Dictionary of Sexuality by Robert T.
victimology and its negative impact on sexual sci- Francoeur
ence.) Others look at the parallelism between het- [3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3030328.stm BBC
erophobia and homophobia, and suggest that the news -- Gay rights plans ’heterophobic’
former trivializes the latter. Yet heterophobia may [4] ^ http://home.bway.net/rjnoonan/Conf1999.html
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