"::We'll have to disagree on that as well, I think, and from experience have seen, that homophobia is not presently within ""very few"" people and i would say a one form of homophobia is within almost a majority as very few cultures are comfotable with same sex love and intimacy. In fact there is internalized homophobia which deeply affects the LGBT communities who have much to gain by teaching about their lives to combat homophobia. It's also beyond just parents teaching children that gays are ""messed up,"" institutionalized homophobia has helped the AIDS pandemic become an international pandemic because it was dismissed a s gay disease and to this day world-class professionals in most fields do not reveal any sexuality beyond a male-female identified one. And if they do they face a probable loss of income and status.   

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