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queerphobe en · NOUN

Etymology

From queer + -phobe.

Meanings

1. Someone who has a fear or hatred of queer people; a person exhibiting queerphobia.
   • Following this retweet, several internet commentators responded to the title of the conference paper. They published Casey’s work address online for other concerned queerphobes to take note of. 2025 September, Casey Burkholder, Pam Whitty, Pam Malins, Melissa Keehn, “On summoning queer joy in early childhood education: Some findings from New Brunswick, Canada”, in Journal of Early Childhood Research, volume 23, number 3, →DOI, page 237:
   • Happily, or sadly, I'm not sure, the world is not such a simple place. People have the views and feelings they do for a amazingly wide variety of reasons. True there are plenty of nasty queerphobes and such out there. 1994 March 17, John R. Snead, “Re: Elf!!, the Unauthorized Queer”, in soc.bi (Usenet):
   • The "homo-" is the Greek prefix for "same", hence "homosexual" refers to "sex" with someone of the "same [gender]", and "homophobe" refers to "phobia" towards someone of the "same [gender]". It never occurred to me that one might think of the "homo" part as not being a prefix, but of being slang shortening of "homosexual", as if to say "queerphobe". [1985 April 22, Rob Bernardo, “The Word "homophobe"”, in net.motss (Usenet):

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Relateds

queerphobia · queerphobic