heteroprejudice

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hetero- +‎ prejudice

Noun[edit]

heteroprejudice (uncountable)

  1. Prejudice against heterosexual people.
    • 2002, Bob Barret, Robert L. Barret, Colleen Logan, Counseling Gay Men and Lesbians: A Practice Primer, page 119:
      Recognize and address the effects of externalized and internalized homoprejudice or heteroprejudice and biprejudice.
    • 2014, Matt Englar-Carlson, Marcheta P. Evans, Thelma Duffy, A Counselor's Guide to Working With Men, page 124:
      Counselors who are tuned to recognizing homoprejudice may be surprised to encounter heteroprejudice when working with gay clients.
  2. Prejudice expressed by heterosexual people against other groups.
    • 2001, Daya Singh Sandhu, Faces of Violence:
      You can emotionally support survivors by sharing that they are the victims of heteroprejudice and, regardless of whom we are, nobody has a right to violate our property or us.

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