two meditations on the word “homophobic”: - it ironically literally means “fear of the same”, when it actually represents a fear of what is not normal, what is different - you could also misread it to mean “fear of man”, ie a fear of what makes us human
i like “homophobia as a fear of what makes us human” angle because being gay is perfectly natural. the more we look the more gay sex animals seem to have, 5% of birds are intersex and so on. what’s unnatural is enforcing such rigid norms — what’s unnatural is filling your heart with hate