Homophobia - Leontine Bijleveld

Homophobia is a phenomenon that the reader of this publication will keep encountering.
Byrne Fone, US pioneer in the field of Gay Studies, has devoted an extensive book to this
theme in 2000 entitled Homophobia: a History. This book begins its historical overview with
the theory that few social groups escape the consequences of prejudice. Homophobia is the
last accepted prejudice, at least in modern western society, where racism has been rejected,
anti-Semitism condemned and women-hatred has lost its legitimacy.