Noun
Someone who has a fear or hatred of queer people; a person exhibiting queerphobia.
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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".
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.
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.