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"en:Forms of discrimination",
"en:Homophobia",
"en:LGBTQ"
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"ref": "1981 August 1, Ray Thompson, “Down and Out and Gay”, in Gay Community News, page 10:",
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"ref": "2016, Ralph Erber, Maureen Erber, Intimate Relationships: Issues, Theories, and Research, Second Edition:",
"text": "When placed in a situation that threatens to excite their repressed or latent sexual preferences, homophobics tend to react with panic, anger, and hostility as a means to avert or deny the threat (West, 1977).",
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