: irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against heterosexual people
As in so many areas of our society, divisions are drawn in black and white; there are no shades of gray. Homophobia is countered by heterophobia; the empty answer to gay-bashing is a vow to bash back. There are sadder developments in American life, I suppose, but for the moment, I can't think of one.—
Pete Hamill, Esquire, August 1990
heterophobe
noun
plural heterophobes
Raised by equally disenfranchised drag queens in San Francisco … Cho became a self-confessed heterophobe.
—Leatrice Spevack, The Toronto Star, 2 Mar. 2001
heterophobic
adjective
Take straight men, for example. Most of my life I avoided them … . At one point I was just as heterophobic as I thought they were homophobic, and I lived in isolation.
—Cameron Lopez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Feb. 2006
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