Citations:homoantagonism

Noun: "hostile and/or violent behaviour toward gay people"

 * 2002, Bianca Della Marie Wilson & Robin Lin Miller, "Strategies for Managing Hetereosexism Used Among African American Gay and Bisexual Men", Journal of Black Psychology, Volume 28, Number 4, November 2002, page 381:
 * Engaging in homoantagonism (taunting and possibly behaving violently toward gays), avoiding public intimacy with men, "acting like a thug/hard criminal," and "butching up," defined by one interviewee as "acting manly" and "cocking your hat back" (kp 36), are macho extreme behaviours.
 * 2010, Richard N. Pitt, "'Killing the Messenger': Religious Black Gay Men's Neutralization of Anti-Gay Religious Messages", Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 1, March 2010, page 70:
 * Finally, it is worth noting that, while this strategy may be useful in managing personal conflicts between one’s sense of his sexual identity and his church’s sense of it, it still falls short of challenging homoantagonism in the Church itself.
 * 2010, Bianca D. M. Wilson, Gary W. Harper, Marco A. Hidalgo, Omar B. Jamil, Rodrigo Sebastián Torres, & M. Isabel Fernandez, "Negotiating Dominant Masculinity Ideology: Strategies Used by Gay, Bisexual and Questioning Male Adolescents, American Journal of Community Psychology, Volume 45, Issue 1-2, March 2010:
 * The current hegemonic masculinity ideology, also referred to as traditional masculinity ideology, is described in the U.S. as having some or all of the following perspectives on manhood: man as heterosexual, with heterosexuality as the normative sexual orientation (Connell, 1995); man as homophobic, with acts of homoantagonism and feelings of homophobia as normative (Buchbinder, 1994; Herek, 1986; Kimmel, 1995);
 * 2014, Kenneth Maurice Tyler, Identity and African American Men: Exploring the Content of Our Characterization, Lexington Books (2014), ISBN 9780739183960, page 106:
 * One example of role flexing reported among the participants included the adoption of an extreme masculinity, which included engaging in violent and disrespectful acts towards homosexuals (homoantagonism) and avoiding public affection and intimacy with men.
 * 2014, Jade Danielle Coley, "Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Access for African American Sexual Minority Women", thesis submitted to the University of Pittsburgh and approved on 26 March 2014, page 4:
 * The health inequities that AA SMW [African-American sexual minority women] face may stem from the historical and modern structure of racism, sexism, misogynoir (hatred of Black women), and homoantagonism (active hostility or opposition to homosexual people).
 * 2015, Shamira A. Meghani, "Queer South Asian Muslims: the ethnic closet and its secular limits", in Imagining Muslims in South Asia and the Diaspora: Secularism, Religion, Representations (eds. Claire Chambers & Caroline Herbert), Routledge (2015), ISBN 9781317654124, unnumbered page:
 * Both Indian homeland and transoceanic East African and US diasporas are represented in contexts of racism, Orientalism, and homoantagonism, but in ways that cut across intersections of oppression that lean one way and, instead, critique, celebrate, and complicate geographies, ethnicities, patriarchies, religions, and sexualities.
 * 2015, Treva B. Lindsey, "Let Me Blow Your Mind: Hip Hop Feminist Futures in Theory and Praxis", Urban Education, Volume 50, Number 1, January 2015, pages 57:
 * Collectively, hip-hop feminist theorists developed new ideas about and approaches to eradicating patriarchy, misogyny, homoantagonism, and transphobia both within hip-hop and in our communities.