Basically means "pimpville".Ī township and village in Allegany County, New York. The name of 4 different places in Poland. Its name is Spanish for " Germany".Ī small community in Franklin County, North Carolina, pronounced AY-lurt.Ī weather station settlement in Nunavut, Canada - it's the northernmost permanently inhabited place on Earth! Also a ghost town in California.Ī reservoir in South Carolina that apparently needs an intervention.Īn almost ghost village in the province of Salta, in the northwest of Argentina. New York has a number of places named after other states or countries.Ī place in Wyoming probably filled with street rats. Very important!Ī mountain range that seems to be a bunch of air?Ī township and small community in Genesee County, New York. Another one in Alberta.Ī Malaysian town, not an airline.
"Aknīste" means "pizza face" in Latvian.Ī town in Scotland that either has very dry air, highly treasures its hair dryers, or they've never heard of a clothes dryer.
Means "smoked" in Romanian.Ī town in Latvia. "Adıyaman" means "its name is tough" in Turkish, derived from its former Persian language-derived toponym Hısn-i Mansur.Ī metro station in Moscow that, contrary to the name, hasn't had a functioning airport since just before 1950.
Body positivity is good for your mental health!Ī town in Libya that is unfortunately about 2,614 kilometres (1,624 mi) away from the closest Eve. No Armenians live in this city in Colombia.Ī town in Jamaica that thinks it's floating.Ī town in Maryland which had an accident.Īll sizes are fine. state of Hawaii.Ī Danish town that is a real pain in the "aars". Also several rivers in Western Europe, and when "accented" properly, the rough, "blocky" lava found in the U.S. Long place names are in the next section. Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender ( LGBT).Further information: List of places with numeric names Short and medium-length names It has been defined as contempt, prejudice, aversion, hatred or antipathy, may be based on irrational fear, and is also related to religious beliefs. Homophobia is observable in critical and hostile behavior such as discrimination and violence on the basis of sexual orientations that are non-heterosexual. Recognized types of homophobia include institutionalized homophobia, e.g. religious homophobia and state-sponsored homophobia, and internalized homophobia, experienced by people who have same-sex attractions, regardless of how they identify. 6.1 Distinctions and proposed alternativesĪlthough sexual attitudes tracing back to Ancient Greece – from the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity ( c.According to 2010 Hate Crimes Statistics released by the FBI National Press Office, 19.3 percent of hate crimes across the United States "were motivated by a sexual orientation bias." Moreover, in a Southern Poverty Law Center 2010 Intelligence Report extrapolating data from fourteen years (1995–2008), which had complete data available at the time, of the FBI's national hate crime statistics found that LGBT people were "far more likely than any other minority group in the United States to be victimized by violent hate crime." Negative attitudes toward identifiable LGBT groups have similar yet specific names: lesbophobia is the intersection of homophobia and sexism directed against lesbians, gayphobia is the dislike or hatred of gay men, biphobia targets bisexuality and bisexual people, and transphobia targets transgender and transsexual people and gender variance or gender role nonconformity. 600 AD) – have been termed homophobia by scholars, and it is used to describe an intolerance towards homosexuality and homosexuals that grew during the Middle Ages, especially by adherents of Islam and Christianity, the term itself is relatively new. Ĭoined by George Weinberg, a psychologist, in the 1960s, 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", "morbid fear" or "aversion". Weinberg is credited as the first person to have used the term in speech. 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.