"Homophobic" is sometimes a problematic word. The emotion it describes is often less a sort of fear than a sort of hate. No one fears himself, but lots of peopl

"Homophobic" is sometimes a problematic word. The emotion it describes is often less a sort of fear than a sort of hate. No one fears himself, but lots of people hate themselves. (One imagines this might be more common among those who torture prisoners of war.) So, the fact that Eastern European war criminals hate homosexuals does not prove that any particular Eastern European war criminals are not themselves homosexual.