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Some students criticized HCFA for inviting Hill-Perry to campus, calling her homophobic and arguing she condones conversion therapy. http://ow.ly/JYrr30isP7t


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Some students criticized HCFA for inviting Hill-Perry to campus, calling her homophobic and arguing she condones conversion therapy.
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Coined by George Weinberg, a psychologist, in the 1960s,^[13] the term homophobia is a blend of (1) the word homosexual, itself a mix of neo-classical morphemes, and (2) phobia from the Greek φόβος, Phóbos, meaning "fear" or "morbid fear".^[14][15][16] Weinberg is credited as the first person to have used the term in speech.^[11] The word homophobia first appeared in print in an article written for the May 23, 1969, edition of the American pornographic magazine Screw, in which the word was used to refer to heterosexual men's fear that others might think they are gay.^[11]

Conceptualizing anti-LGBT prejudice as a social problem worthy of scholarly attention was not new. A 1969 article in Time described examples of negative attitudes toward homosexuality as "homophobia", including "a mixture of revulsion and apprehension" which some called homosexual panic.^[17]