Slightly off topic, but towards the end, he mentions that: "Though they experienced homophobia and struggled financially..." This particular case aside, why i

Slightly off topic, but towards the end, he mentions that: "Though they experienced homophobia and struggled financially..." This particular case aside, why is all negativity towards homosexuality grouped into homophobia? Is anyone who opposes homosexuality afraid of it (in a literal translation)? The dictionary.com definition of the suffix phobia is: "a combining form meaning “fear,” occurring in loanwords from Greek ( hydrophobia); on this model, used in the names of mental disorders that have the general sense “dread of, aversion toward” that specified by the initial element:" What about folks approaching from a standpoint that has neither a dread of, nor an aversion towards homosexuals? Why are they called homophobic?