Word: homophobia
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...ROTC cadet enrolled at Harvard offered an alternative explanation: that the military wants to get rid of homosexuals in its ranks. And while top Pentagon officials may not have designed the new screening policy as an overt purge of homosexuals, we can not help but think that the unfounded homophobia associated with AIDS affected their deliberations...
Despite such changes in attitude, AIDS high-risk groups, particularly homosexuals, are feeling an increasing employment chill. Physician Leon Warshaw, executive director of the New York Business Group on Health, decries the trend. Says he: "Fear of AIDS is a front for an unreasoning homophobia. People who have the mannerisms or appearance or careers that suggest they might be gay -- whether they are or not -- become a source of concern for employers...
...apparent inconsistencies I was observing throughout his talk. Then I asked him to explain how, if the Church is interested in peace and equality and wants to see an end to prejudice and discrimination, can Catholic Church leaders fail to see the clear links between racism, anti-semitism and homophobia...
...that gays were similarly listed among the ranks of the "impure" and tens of thousands also perished in the gas chambers of the Nazi machine. Hitler in his own perverse way evidently saw connections between these groups and practiced the most extreme form of racism, anti-semitism, and homophobia as the cornerstone of his "final solution...
...Harvard, there's this veneer of social diversity which we think we should believe in," Litke concludes. "Therefore, it's difficult to judge whether homophobia has increased...