According to Nwecomb, E .and Mustanski, B. (2009) states that. Homophobia is the hatred or fear of homosexuals or homosexuality that is (lesbians and gay), people sometimes leading to the activities of violence and expressions of anger. Homophobia is not kept to any division or society it can be found in many people from different social class, it also organized hate groups who attack homosexuals and they used mainly violent language in attempting to persecute and intimidate them. Homophobia is an irrational prejudice against or fear of lesbian and gay people. However people, who are perceived to be lesbians or gays, or those who have lesbians and gays friends, can also be the target by homophobia. Although sexual orientation have made people to focus on homosexuality as a good thing because they feel when same sex gender are together they feel more relax to each other, because there is no stress or disturbance from third party like kids. In Uganda, people have taken actions towards lesbians and gays people, since they perceive it as an immoral activity, as it contradicts their beliefs. However negative feelings or attitudes exhibited by non-homosexuals as identified in relationships and communities, can lead to homophobic behaviour.
However, homophobic persons can be seen as authoritarian, status conscious, intolerant of doubt and both cognitively and sexually rigid. But the homophobia acts are motivated less by conventional sexual morality than by a desire to preserve a double standard between the sexes that is to preserve traditionally sexist masculine and feminine gender roles. According to BBC news, they states that at least 500,000 lesbian and gay people live in Uganda, out of a total population of 31 million. However homophobia is believed to be rooted in both cultural and individual condition, that process with their own reason and governed by their own rules, and it also believed by many people as a though loaded with challenges like homophobia and...