In response to the antihomosexual culture of the 1950s, members of the Mattachine Society, the Daughters of Bilitis, and the Janus Society, the three major homophile organizations, adopted the “politics of respectability” of the civil rights movement. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Pastor Fred Phelps and his insane followers from the Westboro Baptist Church had decided to use the skating competition as a peg for an antihomosexual rally. ❋ Johnny Weir (2011)
Or I'm going to a Black poetry reading, and half of the poets are antihomosexual, or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me. ❋ Irene Monroe (2010)
It reads thus “[...] the Westboro Baptist Church, a Christian fundamentalist group that demonstrates during military funerals to gain attention for its antigovernment, antihomosexual message.” ❋ Unknown (2010)
Kinnaman and his co-author Gabe Lyons polled Millenials to find out what terms came to mind when they thought of Christians and the results included unflattering ones like judgmental, antihomosexual, hypocritical, too political and sheltered. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Much of black heterosexuals 'antihomosexual sentiment exists as a means of countering the perception of black sexuality as perverse in order to survive and gain respectability and acceptance by the majority. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Homophobia is the standard and generally accepted term for antihomosexual bigotry. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Actually, I think that antiprohomosexual or unprohomsexual would be more accurate than antihomosexual. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
Her TV show was canceled amid low ratings after gay groups attacked her for making antihomosexual remarks, but she continues to enjoy success on radio and has written several books. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Concurrently, she was in the public eye slinging barbs at Anita Bryant in response to antihomosexual attacks: “Anita Bryant is to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art.” ❋ Ed Karvoski Jr. (1997)
Example: “Cracker Barrel, a national restaurant chain, fires employees for being gay or lesbian,” advised one message in late 1993, referring to the firing of eleven gay and lesbian workers and the general antihomosexual employment policies of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store. ❋ Joel Makower (1994)
Albert Snyder, whose son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, was killed in Iraq, learned Friday that a federal appeals court is requiring him to pay more than $16,000 in legal fees to the Westboro Baptist Church, a Christian fundamentalist group that demonstrates during military funerals to gain attention for its antigovernment, antihomosexual message. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When President Clinton ill-preparedly announced his intention to overturn the military's antihomosexual policy (I'm still not sure who was dumber, Clinton or the gay advisers who underestimated the opposition), little information reached the public concerning the financial and human costs of persecuting and prosecuting gay and lesbian service personnel. ❋ Unknown (2010)
