homofascism

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Etymology[edit]

homo- +‎ fascism

Noun[edit]

homofascism (uncountable)

  1. A political stance that associates fascism with homosexuality.
    • 2007, Alison Guenther-Pal, Projecting Deviance/Seeing Queerly, page 60:
      Consequently, his position indirectly suggests that perverse societies produce perverse individuals, an ideological stance that very much mirrors a discourse that during the postwar period was primarily observed in literary circles: homofascism.
    • 2013, Daniel Humphrey, Queer Bergman: Sexuality, Gender, and the European Art Cinema:
      At its worst, it [the art film] seems politically reactionary, tending toward homofascism.
    • 2013, John Champagne, Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy, page 17:
      Critics of my project may charge that I risk, if not embodying the very homofascism Hewitt seeks to deconstruct, then at least mimicking it symptomatically.
  2. (derogatory) Aggressive support for gay rights.
    • 2008, No One, “Re: GOD is sending homosexuals a message in California, "Mend your ways, or burn in HELL!"”, in alt.politics.homosexuality (Usenet):
      Homofascism is dedicated to the proposition that anyone who does not believe homosexuality is normal should be fired, disenfranchised, imprisoned, or "harried out of the land."
    • 2011, Democrats Destroy Society, “Re: Southern Poverty Law Center's Despicable Lies”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet):
      If anything, Christians are guilty of standing idly and silently by as creeping homofascism left its depraved bedroom and wormed its way into our public schools, our media, our television shows and Hollywood pictures, and even into our churches and the highest positions in our government and military.
    • 2018, Peter van der Veer, Prayer and Politics:
      [] speakers included many GOP hopefuls, and the themes focused on “spiritual warfare” against the demonic manifestations of “militant Islam”, “militant homofascism” and progressives who would establish a “secular humanist caliphate”.

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