Where does homophobia come from?
Well to put it bluntly, homophobia comes from the ideal of the nuclear family and society in general. People are taught through a process of socialisation that being queer is wrong or abnormal. From the moment you are born, you are taught that to be normal you are supposed to get married to someone of the opposite sex, have children and then they are supposed to do the same thing. Take a look at some of our childhood institutions, such as Barbie and Ken. They are the embodiment of Anglo-Saxon heterosexuality. We never see a Barbie and Bonnie or Ken and Kurt. Even on television today you very rarely see same sex couples, yet in almost every program there is the male-female couple who bare it all to give us the two second skin shot. You never see two males kissing in a Levi’s commercial or the womyn in the diet coke advertisement swooning over other womyn. Basically, we are taught that heterosexuality or male to female relationships are normal, and in our society if we stray from this to
