George Weinberg

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George Weinberg, an American clinical psychologist who has long been a friend of the LGBT community, regularly attended meetings of a group in San Francisco called the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). Watching their struggle for appropriate, arresting soundbites and the media responses, he came up with the word that the GAA had been struggling for: "homophobia," derived from Greek words meaning "the same" and "fear," and meaning the irrational fear of loving someone of the same sex. This new word first appeared in book form in 1974 in his work Society and the Healthy Homosexual.

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