History Main / HeteronormativeCrusader

* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Mikoto Misaka's insistence that a couple in a couple's photo should only consist of a male and a female can make her come off as this. Her behavior is possibly justified by her experiencing sexual harassment from [[PsychoLesbian Koroko Shirai]].

* ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'': Yafya, the current Sublime Beastar, very much believes that one of the foundational building blocks of a peaceful society is the fact that heterosexual relationships between animals of the same species are the norm. Even when he sleeps with a female horse, it's implied the thing he likes most about her is that she's a healthy horse like him. This puts him at odds with the protagonist, who is a wolf in love with a rabbit. [[spoiler:It's implied that some of it comes from the fact that his best friend Gosha left him and their dream of becoming Beastars together to start a family in an inter-species marriage with a grey wolf.]]

* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Mikoto Misaka's insistence that a couple in a couple's photo should only consist of a male and a female can make her come off as this. Her behavior is possibly justified by her experiencing sexual harassment from [[PsychoLesbian Koroko Shirai]].

** He really went overboard with this trope in the [[AuthorTract tract]] called [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1070/1070_01.asp Uninvited]]: the tract features a nurse who harasses dying AIDS-patients for their "crime" of being gay. Of course, [[SoulsavingCrusader her actions are fully justified within the verse of the tract]], since this is an {{anvilicious}}ly bigoted AuthorTract. The real kick? It turns out that all the homosexuals became homosexual because they were sexually molested as children. More to the point, when a child gets sexually molested, she automatically becomes unclean, possessed by a demon of defilement. The trope DefiledForever is played straight for everyone who isn't both TheFundamentalist ''and'' a Christian. Averted for all characters who are (or become) HolierThanThou.

* Creator/DCComics have been dropping clues about this over the last five years or so, with the accompanying crusaders. Brad Meltzer has hinted more than once that there's a homosexual underground within the DCU villain community, and that being outed would result in being killed by some of the more dangerous racist villains. [[JokerImmunity Unless you're so incredibly scary that even manly macho men are terrified of you, that is.]]
* In the Creator/GrantMorrison run of ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'', an entire secret branch of the Pentagon existed as Heteronormative Crusaders wielding bizarre and Dadaesque technology, known as The Men From N.O.W.H.E.R.E. This naturally made them StrawHypocrite villains as well. Mind you, they prefer to stay in the shadows until a deranged associate creates his own much more aggressive offshoot, on his quest to destroy Danny The Street.
* In ''ComicBook/ExitStageLeftTheSnagglepussChronicles'', Snagglepuss is re-imagined as a gay playwright during the Red Scare. Naturally, he has to deal with the HUAC, which, having failed to prove that he's a communist, decides to bring him down because of his personal life.[[note]]That [[TruthInTelevision actually happened]]: the so-called "Lavender Scare" purged all known or suspected LGBT people in the government, due to being a risk for blackmail by spies and just "not proper persons" for employment. The US Navy itself commissioned a report finding gays were not such a risk, but prejudice, as you'd expect, won out. On a beneficial note though this also spurred studies of homosexuality proving it wasn't a mental illness, and inspired the gay rights movement as well.[[/note]]
* Dick Hafer immortalized himself as even loonier than Jack Chick with his homophobic propaganda comic ''Homosexuality: Legitimate, Alternate Deathstyle!'' As one might gather from the title, this character archetype is portrayed as unambiguously heroic. Unlike Chick and others, Hafer did not even claim to "hate the sin but love the sinner", as it's pretty clear he would have hated LGBT people regardless of what his religion said about it.

* ''ComicBook/LifeWithArchieTheMarriedLife'': [[spoiler:Wendell]], the [[spoiler:MysteriousStranger]] taken in as a [[spoiler:busboy for the Chocklit Shoppe]] by Jughead, is later revealed in Issue #36 to be a homophobic gunman who shot [[spoiler:Kevin Keller's husband Clay Walker during one of his robberies]] in Issue #22 and went on a rampage by shooting down gay employees in the Southport Mall in Issue #30, and now seeks to end Kevin's life when his attempt to stop Kevin from becoming a senator on gun control failed. When [[spoiler:Wendell]] discovers that his cover is being blown, he hides behind the crowd and pulls out a gun to shoot Kevin. [[spoiler:However, Archie jumps into the fray to stop Wendell and ends up TakingTheBullet for Kevin, leading to Wendell's arrest.]]
* In ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'', one side character starts out as a ArmoredClosetGay Nazi who beat an Indian man almost to death for flirting with him. [[spoiler:The man gets disabled for life, but they end up as lovers anyway -- once the first guy realized that ThoseWackyNazis wasn't such a good crowd to hang out with after all.]]

* ''ComicBook/ThePride'', being a comic book series about a team where every member is gay, naturally has a bunch of these as its villains, with the BigBad basically being an even-more villainous version of [[http://www.wikipedia.org/Fred_Phelps Fred Phelps]].

* This actually is turned against the elder Dursleys in the Literature/HarryPotter story ''Fanfic/TheChosenSix''. When Sirius and Remus move into the house next to them, the Dursleys are wrongly convinced that these two are gay (after all, it's the early 80s), but can't do anything against it, since they are afraid of wizards.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' fanfics ''Fanfic/FarewellToLifeTheWayWeKnewIt'' and its sequel ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2300042/1/Survival-of-the-Misfits Survival of the Misfits]]'' takes place in a dystopian 1990s setting where an American Mortality office gets people arrested for anything they deem immoral. They have a blood test that can tell if someone is heterosexual or not. Stormer and later [[spoiler:Clash]] end up getting outed as lesbian and arrested.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3470108/1/Gay-Pride Gay Pride]]'', Zim turns on the TV and sees a program featuring a fundamentalist Christian preacher who declares that homosexuality will destroy the world. Zim, being an alien invader who ''wants'' to destroy the world, immediately decides that he needs to get his hands on this "homosexuality". HilarityEnsues.

* In the Manga/LuckyStar fanfic ''FanFic/LuckyStarAfterStory'', Yutaka and Minami, while on their honeymoon, are attacked by a homophobic man who sees them kissing. Fortunately for them, several bystanders manage to wrestle the attacker off of the thoroughly scared couple. The attacker gets his comeuppance with a long prison sentence.
* The ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' fanfic [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2214054/chapters/4853466 ''The M-Word'']] subverts this trope: Stefan is a gay-hating jerk, but when he says something wrong in front of the press, this threatens his career, and his career is more important to him than anything else... so he arranges for his daughter Aurora to get married to a woman (Maleficent) so that he can turn up at the wedding and smile into the cameras, and be immune against all accusations of homophobia.

* ''Film/ShowMeLove'':
** Camilla is always ready to mock Agnes as a "dyke" whenever she sees her.
** Viktoria chose to assume this role, harassing Agnes for her lesbianism due to bitterness over Agnes' insults toward her when their friendship collapsed. It's all an openly calculated plot designed to use homophobia as a means to gain popularity... [[spoiler:and it backfires completely.]]
* ''Film/TheSMJudge'' is all about this trope. The main character isn't even a sadomasochist himself, it's his wife who is a masochist. But his political enemies find out, and uses it as a excuse to persecute him -- claiming that he "abused" her (though it was completely consensual).
* ''Film/PreachingToThePerverted'' plays this trope [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]]. The main character is originally working for a bigot, who sends him out to infiltrate a BDSM club. It turns out that the bigot is a sadist himself, and [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny the main reason he hates the club]] is that they are having all the fun that he has denied himself all his life.
* BasedOnATrueStory, the main character in ''Film/BoysDontCry'' is about a young UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} man who hangs out with some redneck homophobes who accept him as one of the guys. He even starts dating the sister of one of these new friends. Of course, when they "discovered" that he was assigned female at birth, they consider this relationship to be lesbian. Homophobic hate crimes ensue, [[spoiler:ending in his murder.]]
* Played for symbolism in ''Film/FemalePerversions'': Eve, a bisexual sadomasochist, gets attacked (twice!) by a very judgmental man. However, this man comes out of nowhere -- in all likelihood, he is not to be taken as a literal person, but rather as a manifestation of her anxiety.
* The infamous ''Perversion For Profit'' from 1965 (see [[Quotes/HeteronormativeCrusader the quotes page]]) isn't truly about homosexuality or sadomasochism as much as it's a general plea for the virtue of censorship and the evils of free speech. However, they [[ValuesDissonance assume that the audience has an unhesitating hatred for homosexuals and sadomasochists]], and thus mention these minorities several times in order to make the attack on freedom of speech appear more legitimate. [[TakeThat A parody re-edit of the film]] was later made, called "[[http://www.archive.org/details/come_join_the_fun2004 Come Join the Fun]]".

* Janet's father in ''Film/ShockTreatment''. He expresses his hatred of CampGay and CampStraight men [[{{Irony}} in a musical number]].
* Anita Bryant plays this role through archival footage in ''Film/{{Milk}}''.
* Inverted in ''Film/FemaleTrouble'', where a character's aunt tries to coerce him into being gay and describes heterosexuality as "sick" and "boring".
* A relatively peaceful example in the film ''Film/{{Saved}}''. When it comes out that Mary's boyfriend is gay, he gets shipped off to a camp to teach him to be straight, and Mary's classmates "help" by attempting to "[[CureYourGays pray the gay away]]." Given that this movie is a parody of hardcore Christian society, their attitudes aren't very surprising.
* [=McKenzie=] of ''Film/{{GBF}}'' is one. She ditches 'Shley and Topher for "fraternizing with [a] Sodomite" (befriending the openly gay Tanner) and takes extreme measures to enforce PromIsForStraightKids.
* ''Film/VForVendetta'': Among other things, the Norsefire regime persecutes LGBT people, rounding them up as we see related in a letter by lesbian prisoner Valerie. Her girlfriend had already been arrested prior to this. She was then killed as a result of being made a guinea pig for creating the virus. Gordon is forcibly closeted because of this. It's not said exactly what became of other LGBT prisoners, but they may well all have been murdered.
* ''{{Film/Colette}}'': Colette and Missy's on-stage kiss offends most of the audience so much they're not only booed but driven offstage with hurled objects (100% TruthInTelevision). They were Missy's ex-husband's friends; he'd already divorced her since he couldn't stand her cross-dressing and same-sex attraction.
* ''Film/FirstGirlILoved'': Cliff reacts badly when Anne tells him she's attracted to a girl and starts sabotaging their relationship out of homophobia mixed with jealousy (since he wants Anne). Sasha's mother also isn't happy at all to see it when Cliff puts a photo of them kissing in the yearbook, pushing Sasha into saying that Anne forced her and that she'll call the police if they don't expunge this.
* ''{{Film/Pariah}}'': Laura's mother had disowned for her being lesbian, and one of Arthur's friends also makes anti-gay remarks toward her. Alike's mother also refuses to accept her sexuality. Even prior to her coming out, she pushed Alike to wear feminine clothing, clearly already suspicious.
* ''Film/NocturnalAnimals'': Susan relates that her mother and father are homophobes who can't stand that her brother is gay.
* ''Film/BloodOfTheTribades'': The priests of Bathor condemn homosexuality (or more specifically, lesbianism), and kill lesbian vampires for their "abominations".
* ''Film/TheWorldUnseen'': One of the policeman slaps Amina and angrily calls her a queer after she mentions women being in her room.
* ''Film/TrappedTheAlexCooperStory'': Alex's parents, [[TheFundamentalist devout]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} Mormons]], are very anti-gay. When she [[ComingOutStory comes out]], their reaction is to fear for her soul. She's thus sent into the care of another family, who are even more vehement, to suffer horribly abusive [[CureYourGays conversion therapy]], which she eventually escapes. The ending says they've changed their minds and accept her now.

* ''Film/TheTruthAboutJane'': Jane's parents, especially her mother, react quite poorly to her coming out as gay, saying it's unnatural. This is despite one of her mom's closest friends also being gay. Eventually they come around.
* ''Film/BonnieAndBonnie'': Yara's father and brother react badly to her being with a woman, saying that she's shamed them (a video of the pair topless ended up on Youtube). Kiki's boss also fires her, saying as a lesbian she's "scum", and also refuses to give her her last pay.
* ''Film/GiantLittleOnes'': Ballas and most of the students shun Franky when he gets branded gay by the former. In Ballas' case this is clearly to cover up their consensual sexual encounter. They also mock and harass a gay boy there.
* ''Film/ForbiddenLoveTheUnashamedStoriesOfLesbianLives'': A police officer who particularly harassed lesbians gets mentioned, though the police generally during the 40's-50's were like this according to the women's accounts. As well, one woman also talks about how her ex-husband grew outraged after learning she's a lesbian, became a homophobic religious zealot and then harassed her for many years in his attempt to "turn her straight" again. He was even more outraged after their daughter came out as a lesbian too, while trying to drive their youngest daughter away from them both.
* ''Film/LoveSimon'': Simon and Ethan are publicly mocked by two straight boys for being gay after Simon's outed. They get chewed out by the teachers for it, and Ms. Albright says they're going to be suspended. Both later have to apologize.
* ''Film/UncleFrank'': Frank's father was disgusted at his sexuality, even spiting him in his will with a denunciation. Wally also mentions he can't live in Saudi Arabia, because men or even teenage boys caught having sex there are often beheaded or hanged.

** In "Part One: 1994" Sam's mother is totally opposed to her sexual orientation, which is made clear when she talks to Deena over the phone, accusing her of ruining Sam's life. She is also very disapproving of their relationship later on at the police station, and drags Sam away after she kisses Deena.
** In "Part Three: 1666" Hannah's mother reacts violently upon learning Sarah and Hannah were having sex in the woods together. She throws Sarah out of the house, accusing her of having corrupted her daughter.
* ''Film/Victim1961'':
** Sergeant Bridie goes on a rant against homosexuality, opposing its decriminalization. [[NobleBigotWithABadge It doesn't stop him]] from pursuing blackmailers extorting closeted gay men though.
** The barkeeper is clear on not liking homosexuality at all, though he still amiably serves gay men.
** [[spoiler:Miss Benham]] is motivated not just by profit while blackmailing gay men, but intense homophobia, saying they deserve it for their behavior.
* ''Film/Steam2007'': It's implied though not stated that Elizabeth's initial anxiety about being into women is due to her parents' conservative Catholic beliefs. When she does come out as a lesbian at the end, her mom is shocked by this and retreats immediately.

* ''Film/GirlsLikeMagic'': Jamie's dad said gays should be hanged or whipped publicly (he's from Iran, where this is really done). It's why she's still in the closet toward him and her mom at the start.
* ''Film/CarmenYLola'': In the Roma community around Madrid, homophobia is the norm from what's seen. The title characters are thus treated with deep hostility for having a relationship, and Lola gets disowned for it.
* ''Film/Adam2019'': At the same-sex marriage rally, some Westboro Baptists (or at least a fictional group like them) are there holding their infamous "God Hates Fags" signs.
* ''Film/TheRetreat2021'': Gavin, James and Layna are all homophobic extremists who catch gays or lesbians to murder them on livestreaming video.
* ''Film/{{Rafiki}}'': [[CrapsackWorld Everyone]], but emphasis on [[spoiler: Mama Atim, who goes out of her way to out the girls, and later, as a patient of Kena's, refuses to let Kena touch her.]] The pastor in their church preaches homophobia and denounces calls for LGBT+ rights, saying it's sinful too. Kena and Ziki are even [[spoiler:beaten by a homophobic mob after getting outed.]]
* ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'': Evelyn Wang has trouble accepting her daughter Joy's sexuality. She refuses to introduce Becky as Joy's girlfriend to her father, then tries to deflect Joy's protests by saying that her father is old and very traditional. When she learns that Joy is possessed by Jobu Tupaki, she reasons that Joy became a lesbian because of her. One of the film's themes is Evelyn trying to reconcile the fact that her daughter was, is, and will always be attracted to girls, and nothing will change that.
* ''Film/EntreNous2021'': Laetitia's parents refuse to have her fiancée Elodie inside their house and are completely unaccepting of the pair's relationship.
* ''Film/SomebodyIUsedToKnow'': It turns out that Cassidy is estranged from her parents (not wanting them at her wedding even) as they're homophobic, describing her marrying a man as being "a step in the right direction" for her, and she says they strongly opposed Cassidy's relationships with women before.

* ''Film/ProfessorMarstonAndTheWonderWomen'': Josette Frank faults William in writing ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' as she believes, among other things, he's implicitly endorsing lesbianism due to her frequent catchphrase invoking ancient Greek poet Creator/{{Sappho}}, famous for her erotic poetry about love between women, claiming he's advocating an "emotional illness".
* ''Film/Requiem2021'': The prevailing attitude of most people in early 1600s England is to view homosexuality as a dire sin.
* ''Film/BetterThanChocolate'':
** Officials at customs have seized LGBT-themed books that the book store sells, with this obviously a result of homophobia, particularly as the courts had ruled before these weren't obscene.
** A local Neo-Nazi skinhead gang harasses the lesbians who work at the book store, and even later throw flares inside which nearly kills several characters after Judy stood up to them.

* ''Film/BlueJean'': In 1988 England, homophobia is pervasive and the new law Section 28 has just been passed to prohibit any local government "promoting homosexuality", which meant schools had to not say homosexuality could be normal or acceptable. Jean, a lesbian teacher, keeps firmly closeted as a result while many of her colleagues support this law, blissfully unaware of her sexuality. Jean's own sister objects to her having Viv, her girlfriend, in her own home while her nephew's there as it's "confusing" to explain their relationship.
* ''Film/JennysWedding'': Jenny faces homophobia not only from her mom and dad but older people in the community as well due to coming out as a lesbian then declaring she's marrying her girlfriend. All come around except one by the end though.
* ''Film/ThingsToDoInDenverWhenYoureDead'': The Man With The Plan has an extended rant on his dislike of gays toward the beginning, with many anti-gay slurs.
* ''Film/YesOrNo'': Pie's mom dislikes gay people and tomboy women (whom she disapproves of for their gender nonconformity, with some also being {{butch lesbian}}s), which rubbed off on Pie, explaining [[ArmoredClosetGay her]] [[BigotWithACrush attitude]] starting out even as she falls in love slowly with Kim, a very masculine girl. She's afraid of her mom finding out as a result. Kim is brought to tears later by overhearing Pie's mom diss her appearance.

* In ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' the country of Valdemar, and its Heralds specifically, are usually quite tolerant, though things vary from place to place and homophobes can be found anywhere. The neighboring country of Rethwellan is much dicier -- when [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Tarma and Kethry]] pass through it, they have to change how they act in public or disguise Tarma as a man to avoid unwanted attention. Some of Valdemar's tolerance was bought by Vanyel Ashkevron, [[Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy the last Herald-Mage]], who was [[FamedInStory such a prominent heroic figure]] that for centuries afterwards being gay has positive connotations. In the trilogy where he stars he does have trouble, both from a Herald who was supposed to watch over him and back at home, where [[WantedAGenderConformingChild his father]] and the local priest believed AllGaysArePedophiles. Over the course of the trilogy Vanyel's father becomes less hateful and comes around almost entirely, but it takes more than fifteen years. In the third book of the trilogy Van has to sign a treaty in Rethwellan and can't bring his lover. The situation is delicate and the Rethwellans may react badly if they discover that he's gay.

* ''Series/AFrenchVillage'': Lucienne gets quite upset when she learns that Marguerite is a lesbian, telling her that she thinks people like her should be locked up, and fears she's a danger to children. However, she gets over this quickly, apologizes [[ArmoredClosetGay and sleeps with Marguerite]].

** Phil Leotardo is already an extremely violent and murderously sadistic mobster with a large body count, but he has a particular hatred for homosexuals. When [[{{Gayngster}} Vito Spatafore]] is outed, Phil takes it upon himself to hunt down and kill him, in part due to Vito being the husband of a cousin, and therefore a stain upon his family line. Tony's attempt to negotiate business deals with Phil are stonewalled as long as Vito is still in hiding, as Phil demands that Tony give up Vito's location before resuming any negotiations. This eventually forces Tony to kill Vito or risk a MobWar, but Phil beats him to it, [[HomophobicHateCrime having Vito violently beaten to death and sodomized, simply for being gay]] (and partly to assert his authority over Tony).[[note]]WordOfGod states that another reason was Phil was an ArmoredClosetGay, something only subtly implied in the show.[[/note]]

* ''Podcast/PlumbingTheDeathStar'''s increasingly villainous interpretation of Professor Xavier is quick to judge homosexuals and uses his mind control as a form of conversion therapy.

* ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'': The goddess Travia is, by some, portrayed as this. However, the sources leave enough room to interpret her as just in favor of monogamy. She's the goddess of home, hearth, and family, but some tribes just consider her the goddess of family loyalty and hearth, so one can easily interpret her as giving her blessings to a same-sex marriage with adopted children. As long as they're faithful, it's within her ideals. (The setting leaves some room for interpretation, anyway, as some gods accept completely different forms of worship. Boron, god of death, gives his blessing to both the silent, earnest, and humble followers in the north and the drug-addled, decadent folks who sacrifice humans to him in the south.)

* One ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' plot hook features a mage with old-fashioned ideas of sexual morality casting a spell on a high school so that all the students would redirect their lusts to "more wholesome pursuits" and focus on good old fashioned missionary sex between a married man and woman, as the Lord intended. [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny This has resulted in horrible, horrible side effects]].
* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' compact the Long Night are typically cast as this trope. Though some members are liberal, the majority of portrayals in the books are of heavily conservative fundamentalists.

* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}} [[UpdatedRerelease Full Body]]'': [[spoiler:If the player pursues [[GayOption Rin's]] route, the BigBad is one of the only people who's not okay with it, scolding Rin and Vincent for denying the "natural order of things". Granted, his goal is to ensure the propagation of humanity, so his attitude makes some sense.]]

* Every villain in ''WebAnimation/QueerDuck'' is bent on trying to kill Queer Duck or [[CureYourGays convert him]]. The most frequently recurring antagonist was even a caricature of Dr. Laura Schlessinger.

* Zigzagged with Larisa from ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo''; she tells to Zoey that she's completely OK with lesbians (of course, in the pragmatic way of "less competition for hot guys"). Gay guys, on the other hand, are fair game (because it means she can't have them and they add to the competition).

* This [[NonIndicativeName may be]] the character type of [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Doctor]] Heteronormative, the "[[BigBad main villain]] [[BuffySpeak dude]]" from one of Jimbo's {{Romance Novel}}s in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''. Of course, he only just heard the term when naming the character, and thought it sounded like [[AGoodNameForARockBand a good name for a]] {{steampunk}} villain.

** Yoona is very against being gay and tries to [[CureYourGays make her gay twin brother straight]]. [[spoiler:As it turns out Yoon Sung is straight but ''[[ArmouredClosetGay Yoona]]'' is the gay one. She has a lot of self-hating {{gayngst}}, not helped by Yoon Sung being one of these in high school. He realized his errors later but his sister in turn went deeper in the closet and began retaliating against gay people. Yoon Sung pretends to be gay in order to convince her sister that being gay isn't a bad thing]].
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Rich constantly throws out homophobic slurs, and even [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2014-10-16 tells]] Larry (the other half of the ThoseTwoGuys pairing of the comic) that it would matter to him if he was gay.
-->'''Rich:''' What if you hit on me or something?\\
'''Larry:''' [[StealthInsult That's really not something you'd need to worry about.]]

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* Website/NotAlwaysRight: Shows a failed attempt, in [[http://notalwaysright.com/fighting-ignorance-with-ignorance/1617 "Fighting ignorance with ignorance"]]. It was done by a customer in a bookstore and was foiled by the salesperson [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretending to be equally ignorant]].
* The NewsParody ''Blog/ElChiguireBipolar'' sometimes uses these as {{Straw Character}}s.

* WebVideo/ZinniaJones talks about this in several episodes. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9_xsFId_eI "coming out"]], which claims that a lot of their antics are designed to ''[[InternalizedCategorism make]]'' [[InternalizedCategorism gay people hate themselves]].
%%* WebVideo/OutWithDad: Vanessa's mother.
* Two straw-like but very entertaining examples on Website/ChannelAwesome:

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Briefly mentioned in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E11FlamingMoe Flaming Moe]]". Right after Moe is outed as a ''heterosexual'' in his campaign for mayor, his disappointed gay supporters complain that they now have to choose between voting for the phony gay and "[[ArmouredClosetGay a Republican whose record is so anti-gay, he's clearly secretly super gay.]]"
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E15HomersPhobia Homer's Phobia]]", Homer was worried Bart was becoming gay and spent most of the episode trying to keep him straight by forcibly exposing him to "manly" things like hunting and cigarette ads (the second attempt backfires spectacularly because the ad portrays two panty-clad, pillow-fighting pinup girls, and Bart decides he wants to smoke ''their'' brand).
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E10TheresSomethingAboutMarrying There's Something About Marrying]]" has Reverend Lovejoy give a very passive-aggressive remark about how he "has no opinion for or against your sinful lifestyle" while explaining why he won't perform gay marriages after the city legalizes them. Homer, sensing money to be made, flips on his usual semi-homophobic attitude and has himself ordained as a minister.

** And then a third episode where Terry's father disowns him for being gay led to Stan learning to accept that some Heteronormative Crusaders are just intolerant: there's no FreudianExcuse, ArmoredClosetGay, or even (as was the case for him) ignorance about homosexuality being contagious or a choice. These folks understand what being gay means and just ''hate'' it.
* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'': Moralton has a noted amount of [[TheFundamentalist Fundamentalists]], and Reverend Putty shows disdain towards Coach Stopframe's sexuality. Unlike other members of the town, Putty lets his prejudices go, and is quite accepting when he learns that his daughter is a lesbian. In one of the cut episodes, he was comfortable performing a lesbian wedding, but could not as the marriage license was rejected.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Later seasons of the show appear to be playing up [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow Cleveland's]] religious beliefs, turning him into this. In a CutAwayGag where Lois goes on a date with another woman, Cleveland glares at her disapprovingly, telling her to find Jesus.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s Mr. Garrison began as a fierce critic of homosexuality where (as per the page quote) he tells his students that gay people don't have hearts like regular humans, and it gets worse from there. He would regularly overemphasize [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday his heterosexual behaviors]], claiming to always to be always hunting for "poontang", to the point where his eventual coming out of the closet was a surprise to absolutely no one.

* The GagDub of ''Anime/GhostStories'' turns Momoko into an [[TheFundamentalist Evangelical Born-Again Christian]] who makes a lot of homophobic comments throughout the series and mentions volunteering at a gay conversion therapy camp.
* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Mikoto Misaka's insistence that a couple in a couple's photo should only consist of a male and a female can make her come off as this. Her behavior is possibly justified by her experiencing sexual harassment from [[PsychoLesbian Koroko Shirai]].

* PlayedForLaughs in ''SmallFavors'': Only naughty people are into BDSM, and they deserve to be [[KinkySpanking severely punished]] for it!

* ''Comicbook/TheLegendOfKorraTurfWars'' reveals that [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Fire Lord Sozin]] outlawed same-sex relations and the Earth Kingdom is not tolerant of this kind of lifestyle either -- which is all the more tragic because Avatar Kyoshi, who is revealed to have been bisexual, struggled all of her life to try to change this... and even though she is [[TheAce one of the most powerful and influential prior Avatars]] that have appeared on-screen, [[PowerfulAndHelpless she couldn't do jack about it]].
* In the Creator/GrantMorrison run of ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'', an entire secret branch of the Pentagon existed as Heteronormative Crusaders wielding bizarre and Dadaesque technology, known as The Men From N.O.W.H.E.R.E. This naturally made them StrawHypocrite villains as well. Mind you, they prefer to stay in the shadows until a deranged associate creates his own much more aggressive offshoot, on his quest to destroy Danny The Street.
* In ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'', one side character starts out as a ArmoredClosetGay Nazi who beat an Indian man almost to death for flirting with him. [[spoiler:The man gets disabled for life, but they end up as lovers anyway -- once the first guy realized that ThoseWackyNazis wasn't such a good crowd to hang out with after all.]]
* Discussed in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', with the main characters taking a very negative stand on this kind of behavior and certain villains implying that they do some normative crusading along with their racist ditto. As for the attitudes of our hero: at one point, Jesse Custer visits a party hosted by a guy specializing in [[SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny decadence]]. This host gets to be surprised twice. First when the preacher approves of the kinky stuff between consenting adults, then when the same preacher [[PaedoHunt beats the crap out of him for molesting children.]]
* PlayedForLaughs in ''SmallFavors'': Only naughty people are into BDSM, and they deserve to be [[KinkySpanking severely punished]] for it!

* ''ComicBook/BitchyBitch'': One of the coworkers is an evangelical homophobe -- whose prejudice only serves to infuriate Midge further. They are ''everywhere'' (but only some of them are real -- others are {{Windmill}}s in Butchy's own mind).

* Dick Hafer immortalized himself as even loonier than Jack Chick with his homophobic propaganda comic ''Homosexuality: Legitimate, Alternate Deathstyle!'' As one might gather from the title, this character archetype is portrayed as unambiguously heroic. Unlike Chick and others, Hafer did not even claim to "hate the sin but love the sinner", as it's pretty clear he would have hated LGBT people regardless of what his religion said about it.

* In ''ComicBook/ExitStageLeftTheSnagglepussChronicles'', Snagglepuss is re-imagined as a gay playwright during the Red Scare. Naturally, he has to deal with the HUAC, which, having failed to prove that he's a communist, decides to bring him down because of his personal life.[[note]]That [[TruthInTelevision actually happened]]: the so-called "Lavender Scare" purged all known or suspected LGBT people in the government, due to being a risk for blackmail by spies and just "not proper persons" for employment. The US Navy itself commissioned a report finding gays were not such a risk, but prejudice, as you'd expect, won out. On a beneficial note though this also spurred studies of homosexuality proving it wasn't a mental illness, and inspired the gay rights movement as well.[[/note]]

* Defied in ''Literature/TheGospelOfTheFlyingSpaghettiMonster'', specifically the chapter on pirates and wenches. The main text of the chapter takes for granted that Pirates (the chosen people!) are male and heterosexual. However, little footnotes exclaim that women can be pirates too and that same-sex relationships are entirely okay in His eyes.[[note]]A fair number of real women pirates existed, along with LGBT ones: same-sex relationships have been not simply documented, but found to extend into ''marriages'' in Golden Age pirate societies. So this bit of fiction matches actual facts.[[/note]]
* Parodied in ''Literature/TheIlluminatusTrilogy'': One of the [[EpilepticTrees theories]] on why Atlantis was destroyed is that [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness the Illuminati]] hated the civilization's FreeLoveFuture enough to nuke it back to the Stone Age. Turns out that this story was false from start to finish later on in the book, however. Atlantis wasn't a paradise, and the Illuminati at the time wasn't pure evil -- [[spoiler:in fact, it and the Discordianism were essentially the same for a quite long time.]] There are plenty of conservative religious organizations with amusingly acronymic names in the book, however, mainly playing the role of a ButtMonkey or the underlying reason for the protagonists' embrace of the counterculture in their backstories.
* ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries'' use public acceptance of fetishism, sadomasochism, and homosexuality as an example of why society is decadent and has to be destroyed.
* Bob Altemeyer showed that certain personality types tend toward this in his non-fiction study "[[https://theauthoritarians.org/Downloads/TheAuthoritarians.pdf The Authoritarians]]", noting that some big characteristics of an authoritarian follower are conventionalism and aggression in the name of and submission to established authorities. They have [[IJustWantToBeNormal a need to be seen as normal]] and want to surround themselves with people who reinforce their beliefs. Hence, they tend to exert a lot of pressure to "normalize" others and punish deviancy.
* ''Gottes Bodenpersonal: Eine unwahrscheinliche Liebesgeschichte'' (''God's Ground Staff: An Unlikely Love Story'') subverts the trope, by introducing a Christian character who rallies against the evils of prostitution, and gets on the nerves of the hooker who is offering her services nearby. When said hooker is attacked by a customer, because [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} she is a pre-operation trans woman]], the Christian intervenes and gets himself beaten up in the process. The hooker (lying on the ground at that point) is worried that she'll get the gay panic, too, but no, when he sees that the hooker's skirt is damaged and ... things show, he just covers the hooker with his jacket. Turns out he's not even a "love the sinner, hate the sin" kind of person, but thinks LGBT people are perfectly okay. He just doesn't like prostitution because money already rules the world in too many ways.
* ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'' has a whole arc dedicated to defeating the homosexual agenda in Maine, which receives government support only because Governor Snidely Hokem (yes, that's his name) is being blackmailed after being taken in by crossdressers and recorded. Protagonist John Rumford claims that nobody minds what people get up to in the privacy of their home, but when people parade their sins in public and demand acceptance, that's too much to bear.
* {{Inverted}} by the Republic of Anglia in ''Literature/WhoNeedsMen'', which is a LadyLand. Anglian culture has lesbianism as its norm and considers voluntary relations with men [[PersecutionFlip morally depraved]], or even a symptom of mental illness. This is taken so seriously that they even attempt to [[PersecutionFlip resocialize]] foreign women who are taken prisoner in their war against another, more patriarchal society into their own accepted models of behavior.
* ''Literature/OneOfUsIsLying'': Cooper's dad, a good old boy from Mississippi, is one of these. There's mention at one point of him declaring "Normal guys shouldn't have to put up with that crap in the locker room" about an openly gay baseball player. [[spoiler: Which is why Cooper is so anxious to keep his sexuality a secret.]]

* ''Literature/ZaraHossainIsHere'':
** Chloe's parents are conservative Catholics who completely oppose homosexuality, treating her like she's sick and [[CureYourGays needs to be cured]] once she came out. After all going to family therapy together, they unbend on it somewhat, though she says even so they'll never fully accept her.
** Zareen is shocked when she learns Zara is bisexual and her parents are accepting, because to her having a relationship with another girl is sinful. She's promptly ordered to GetOut by Zara's dad.
* ''Literature/{{Fingersmith}}'': Gentleman uses homophobia to help get [[spoiler:Sue]] committed, telling the doctors that she made unwanted sexual advances on [[spoiler:Maude]] (it was consensual) and they react in horror, convinced this means she's mentally ill.

* ''Literature/{{Presidential}}'': The right-wing media and Republicans generally in the book all attack Connie for openly seeing another woman, Emily, after the two reveal it.
* ''Literature/TheBurningKingdoms'': The Parijati are homophobic, and outlawed same-sex marriage in Ahriyana when they came to rule there. Malini prefers women to men, and this made her impure in the eyes of her brother, Emperor Chandra, as he knew about this. She believes it's part of why he later ordered Malini to [[OrderedToDie sacrifice]] [[HumanSacrifice herself]], purifying her in his mind. After she refused, Chandra had her exiled instead.
* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfDorsa'': A common view in the Empire is that same-sex relationships are wrong and "unnatural". As a result, Tasia keeps hers with Mylla a secret. [[spoiler:It's used to discredit her at her trial as well.]] She later also keeps her relationship with Joslyn secret from most people as well due to this.
* ''Literature/TheChangeRoom'': Janet is alarmed and upset after learning her daughter Sophie is a lesbian. Eliza, her friend, is annoyed by this (as she's attracted to women along with men herself, though Janet isn't aware) and coaxes her to tell Sophie she loves her still no matter what, rather than becoming hung up on it. Janet thankfully isn't that prejudiced and takes Eliza's advice.

* In ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' the country of Valdemar, and its Heralds specifically, are usually quite tolerant, though things vary from place to place and homophobes can be found anywhere. The neighboring country of Rethwellan is much dicier - when [[PseudoRomanticFriendship Tarma and Kethry]] pass through it, they have to change how they act in public or disguise Tarma as a man to avoid unwanted attention.
** Some of Valdemar's tolerance was bought by Vanyel Ashkevron, [[Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy the last Herald-Mage]], who was [[FamedInStory such a prominent heroic figure]] that for centuries afterwards being gay has positive connotations. In the trilogy where he stars he does have trouble, both from a Herald who was supposed to watch over him and back at home, where [[WantedAGenderConformingChild his father]] and the local priest believed AllGaysArePedophiles. Over the course of the trilogy Vanyel's father becomes less hateful and comes around almost entirely, but it takes more than fifteen years.
*** In the third book of the trilogy Van has to sign a treaty in Rethwellan and can't bring his lover. The situation is delicate and the Rethwellans may react badly if they discover that he's gay.

* ''Series/ShamelessUS'':
** Terry Milkovich walks in on his son Mickey with Ian, to which he responds by kicking the shit out of both (particularly Mickey) claiming that no son of his would be a fag. Terry forces Mickey to have sex with Svetlana (a Russian prostitute) while he and Ian watch, and a few episodes later, he forces Mickey to [[spoiler:marry Svetlana.]] After Mickey [[spoiler:comes out as gay at the Alibi,]] Terry outright tries to [[OffingTheOffspring murder]] his son... he's taken down in time, though, and sent to prison. [[RunningGag Again]].
** A later season sees Ian turning into "Gay Jesus" to combat a fundamentalist preacher and the parents of a kid Ian met through an LGBT youth center who were trying to force him into "conversion therapy".

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' often plays with this trope, with detectives reminding themselves and each other that bruises aren't necessarily caused by abuse, they could also be caused by BDSM. Even so, in some episodes, the trope is played completely straight:
** In one episode, a homosexual suspect gets his career destroyed because he was surrounded by heteronormative people who started crusading against him after Olivia accidentally outed him.
** In another one, a shoe fetishist kills a woman for her boots. Dr. Huang insists that fetishism is a harmless sexual variation, and a very tragic story is gradually revealed. [[spoiler:It turns out that the murderer's mother hated her son for being sexually "abnormal." She tried to "cure" his fetishism by beating him in the head with frying pans and other hard objects, and eventually this abuse caused him permanent brain damage that made him unstable enough to kill the woman by mistake.]]
** Both played straight and inverted in an episode where Kathy Griffin plays a militant lesbian activist. She's placed under police protection when she seems to be the next target in a string of crimes targeting lesbians. Played straight because [[spoiler:the criminal turns out to be a guy who just really hates lesbians]] and inverted because [[spoiler:the first man the police catch trying to sneak into her home turns out to be her male lover -- and she's afraid to exonerate him because of how her lesbian supporters might react if they think she's heterosexual (for the record, she comes out as bisexual at the end of the episode, to their anger).]]
%%I'm not sure this counts-in what way are they LGBT+?** Probably one of the better examples of playing with this trope was the episode "Doubt", where a woman accuses a former lover (also her college professor) of raping her, while he alleges it was consensual and she simply likes it rough (thus explaining the bruises). Cue numerous instances of "He said, she said" leads, and the episode ends [[spoiler:with the credits rolling before the verdict given, asking instead for the audience to decide which was the case. For the record -- they decided not to convict the man]].
* Subverted in the ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode [[Recap/LawAndOrderS10E13Panic Panic]]: a man claims he shot his wife's lesbian lover because he was this; however, it turns out their teenage daughter was actually the murderer and did not like the fact another person was sleeping with her mommy. Once this revelation was made, the man chose to plead guilty rather than let his daughter go to prison, much to [=McCoy's=] chagrin.
* Bachmann family [[{{Expy}} Expies]] Marsha and Marshall Langman in ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''.
* ''Series/TheLWord'': Several, naturally, including a prospective roommate who tries to [[CureYourGays "help"]] Jenny and Shane, a major antagonist in season one who believes God [[spoiler: caused Tina to miscarry because the child would be born to a lesbian couple]], and a man who admitted he wouldn't want a sissy gay for a son under the guise of being honest.
-->'''Bette:''' How nice. An honest homophobe.
* Parodied in ''Series/TrueBlood'': the intro features the infamous Westboro Baptist Church slogan "God hates fags," modified to "God hates fangs" and vampires serve as a stand-in for the LGBT. However, this also leads to something of a BrokenAesop, as many vampires really ''are'' dangerous in a way very similar to what militant homophobes claim about actual LGBT people (screenwriter Alan Ball, who's gay, protested this on precisely that basis, but to no avail).
* Worf of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' can occasionally stumble into this, but generally only in [[OutOfCharacterMoment out of character]] episodes such as "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E17TheOutcast The Outcast]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E07LetHeWhoIsWithoutSin Let He Who Is Without Sin...]]", wherein he is used as the resident [[StrawCharacter conservative strawman]]. Consider that normal Klingon sex is pretty kinky and violent by human standards. Or from Worf's perspective, human sex is pretty tame and overly gentle.
* Parodied in one of the most popular episodes of the Swedish comedy show ''Series/{{Grotesco}}'', which has a Protestant preacher blaming "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmlhUn8TvT0&feature=related bögarnas fel]]" [[note]]"the gay's fault"[[/note]] for everything bad, including earthquakes, going beyond Westboro Baptist Church style by even blaming the war in Afghanistan and the dictatorship in Iran on the gay men. He is quickly joined by a Muslim, a Jew, and a Catholic nun, who all agree that "crazy fundamentalism" and all conflicts throughout history (including all religious wars -- ''especially'' all religious wars) are indeed the gay men's fault.
* A VerySpecialEpisode of ''Series/DesigningWomen'' features a customer and Sugarbaker family frenemy declaring that the one good thing about AIDS is that it's [[TitleDrop "killing all the right people"]]. This leads to one of Julia's epic takedowns:
--> '''Julia Sugarbaker:''' "Imogene, get serious! Who do you think you're talking to?! I've known you for 27 years, and all I can say is, if God was giving out sexually transmitted diseases to people as a punishment for sinning, then you would be at the free clinic ''all the time!'' And ''so would the rest of us!''"
* While the ''Series/InsideScoop'' episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GEI7HKE_D4 Ban Left Marriage]] in itself is pure WindmillCrusader, it's also a parody of Heteronormative Crusader.

** In the episode "In Heat", [[spoiler:the [=UnSub=] was a gay man motivated by the abuse his homophobic father subjected him to. [[InternalizedCategorism He became convinced that he was "dirty"]], and began killing men and stealing their identities to escape his own.]]
** In another episode the [=UnSub=] is a gay man who underwent "conversion therapy" as a teenager and he feels so guilty about having sex that he murders his partners. He eventually decides to rape and murder his own father but is stopped. The BAU then raids the conversion camp to find scores of teenagers being tortured.
* The ''character'' Creator/StephenColbert strays into this not infrequently.
-->"I love gay people as much as the next guy, unless the next guy is gay, in which case I back away slowly..."
** Character!Stephen runs into BoomerangBigot with this one on occasion, where he'll [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial imply through denial]] that he has [[GayConservative repressed homosexual urges.]] [[HoYay It slips out on occasion.]]
* In ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', Becky quits the SchoolPlay because the director, Eli, turns ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' into ''[[GayAesop Romeo and Jules]]''. When he tells her about the change, she says that she is surprised that the principal endorses "alternate lifestyles". Later on, she meets Dave, who plays Romeo, and offers him religious counseling because he'll have to play a gay character. The hockey team also appears to be homophobic, though they are okay with [[GirlOnGirlIsHot lesbians.]] Becky started defying this trope as part of some CharacterDevelopment in regards to her beliefs. She started dating Adam, a trans boy, then helps Imogen, a pansexual, get with lesbian Jack. There was also a brief moment she thought she liked girls. The rest of her family, though, is not so keen on joining her on that journey.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'':
** In "The Bruces" sketch the Australian philosophers have a set of rules, where the most recurring one is always: "No poofters!"[[note]]An Australian and British derogatory slur toward gays.[[/note]]
** Biggles ''shoots a man'' for being gay. Ironically, he is played by [[StraightGay Graham Chapman]] (perhaps deliberate).
** Another sketch has an obvious parody of this with a subculture about people who like to dress up as and act like they're mice. It would actually work somewhat now, as this is basically what many [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furries]] really do, whom some people also view as perverts and so on.
* A few of them show up at various points over the course of ''Series/TheWestWing''. Perhaps most notably is a female radio host whom Bartlet tears apart due to his [[QuoteToQuoteCombat superior knowledge of the Bible]].
* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'' has two: Pennsatucky and Sam Healy. Pennsatucky is a fundamentalist Christian who hates the gays on religious grounds. Healy has a serious problem with lesbians, though it's unclear why. Piper thinks it's because he's jealous that he could never get a woman. Considering he married a {{mail order bride}}, it's a possibility.
* Bitchy queen bee Alison in ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' bullies two lesbians to keep them from getting together, one of which is her friend, whom she leads on and whose sexuality she plays on to gain power over them, and blackmailing and ruthlessly threatening to out the other lesbian, and brands her fellow students with homophobic nicknames such as 'hermie' (as in hermaphrodite) among other things. Despite ultimately marrying a woman she never identifies as anything other than straight and never comes out as bi or gay, and the show and spin-off both end before she gets in another relationship, [[FauxYay leaving it entirely possible that she was straight all along]].

* On ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'', Anna has trouble finding a minister for [[CampGay Oliver's]] funeral. She eventually comes up with one at the last minute, but he ends up giving a fire-and-brimstone sermon about how the theater is an abomination because it turns everyone gay. She has to pull the fire alarm to cut him off.
* On ''Series/{{Empire}}'', Lucious falls into this trope regarding his gay son Jamal. Lucious mistreats him from the beginning, even putting him in a trashcan when he acted effeminately as a child. He begins to grudgingly accept Jamal's sexuality in season 2, as long as he's not directly confronted with it. [[spoiler: However, when he walks in on Jamal alone with a closeted record producer, Lucious loses his cool and tells Jamal that he is a disappointment and he'll be celebrating when Jamal finally dies of AIDS.]]
* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': The regime is run by these, with homosexuality punishable by death and called "gender treachery". Only fertile lesbians are spared, out of necessity, [[spoiler:and being caught carrying on a lesbian affair is punished by a clitoridectomy]].
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': "George" has Hawkeye and Trapper attempting to thwart Frank, who wants a homosexual soldier dishonorably discharged.
* Lisa Ling did three episodes of her series ''Our America With Lisa Ling'' under the umbrella title "Pray the Gay Away?" Each featured several proponents of "conversion therapy".
* Inverted in ''Series/TheOrville'' with the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Moclans]], who are (mostly) an [[OneGenderRace all-male species]]. If a Moclan has a preference for females (usually a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe), he is considered an aberrant and a criminal. [[spoiler:When Klyden learns that Bortus's ex-boyfriend Lokar is a closet heterosexual, he threatens to out him, which would result in Lokar's arrest and shame to his family. Lokar [[FakingTheDead fakes his death]] at Klyden's hands and plans to flee. When the truth is discovered, he is offered asylum with the [[TheFederation Planetary Union]], but decides that he'd done enough hiding and returns to Moclus to be tried. The sad irony here is that Klyden was hatched female and was "corrected" to male as an infant, so there's a bit of self-loathing involved there.]]
* ''Series/YearsAndYears'': Ukraine's new government has unleashed them on the LGBT populace. Viktor's own parents had reported him to the police because of their anti-gay Christian views, and he says many police were just waiting for the opportunity. Muriel is disgusted at hearing this, and firmly tells him he shouldn't excuse his parents, as Christ would not have approved. Homosexuality is not actually illegal in the Ukraine yet, but gays are being persecuted illegally nonetheless. There's a push to outlaw same-sex relations or "expressing homosexuality", supported by the Communist Party of Ukraine, to Daniel's outrage (as he's a socialist himself).

* Series/{{Arrowverse}}
** ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': While Ra's al Ghul does not explicitly belittle Nyssa for being lesbian, he does pair her up with Oliver Queen despite fully knowing that she is not interested in men, which manages to not only insult her sexuality but also her inheritance, as this means he [[HeirClubForMen has no intention of passing on the League of Assassins to her]].
** ''Series/Batwoman2019'':
*** Kate and her girlfriend Sophie fell afoul of this attitude at Point Rock Academy. When they were cadets there, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was still military policy, so when they were caught kissing, both soon got brought up on charges. Kate refused to deny their relationship and was expelled. However, Sophie denied it in order to stay. Though naturally Kate is dismayed by this, Sophie counters that, unlike Kate, she isn't from a very wealthy background and can't simply land on her feet afterward, needing the education the academy provides.
*** Years later, Kate and Sophie run into another one when the owner of a fancy restaurant where they were having dinner attempts to throw them out after spotting the pair holding hands. Kate takes her revenge by purchasing the derelict building across the street and turning it into a gay bar.
*** The hacker in "How Queer Everything Is Today!" had this as her backstory. She'd been reluctant to come out as her parents were homophobic. Her girlfriend insisted though, and [[ForcedOutOfTheCloset told them when she wouldn't]]. Kate later also comes out as a result in her Batwoman persona (she'd already been as herself), thus eliciting some negative comments from a popular talk show host who complains of superheroes getting politicized (who, ironically, is voiced by the openly lesbian Creator/RachelMaddow) after saying "NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat".
*** Diane Moore clearly dislikes Batwoman for coming out as a lesbian. Sophie coming out to her also makes her quite unhappy, saying her daughter's "choice" will simply make things harder for her.
* In ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'', the Bureau of Normalcy is a covert organization dedicated to wiping out anything they consider "abnormal". One of their biggest targets is Danny the Street, a genderqueer sentient street that provides a safe place for LGBT folks.
* ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'':
** Homosexuality is completely outlawed in the Greater Nazi Reich and punishable by death. The [[LesserOfTwoEvils relatively more humane]] Japanese occupiers in the Pacific States don't condone it officially but don't care if it's carried out in private. Ed brings this up while traveling through the Neutral Zone and he runs into an openly gay man since he's used to being more careful about such things.
** Nicole tries to make herself [[UltimateJobSecurity too indispensable to be persecuted for her closet bisexuality]] by spearheading Project Jarr Null, a cultural genocide of American culture, while semi-secretly attending lesbian clubs. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness It doesn't work; as soon as the Statue of Liberty's head hits the ocean, Himmler has her arrested and sent back to Germany for 're-education']].
* ''{{Series/Vida}}'': Victor is a conservative Christian minister who's strongly opposed to homosexuality. He's unsurprisingly displeased learning that Emma and Lyn's bar hosts LGBT events, trying to take it from them legally so they'll stop. Emma telling him she's queer causes him to have his congregation pray for her loudly, and she leaves in disgust. Because of this Lyn, who'd wanted to forge a relationship with him, also turns her back on Victor.
* ''{{Series/Dates}}'': Erica's brother wants her to be straight, even if she's just acting. Kate's family also doesn't speak to her because she's lesbian.
* ''Series/RomperStomper'': Blake is quite homophobic and thus dislikes Jago, a right-wing gay TV host. He tolerates him though as he's an ally but makes it clear that he thinks homosexuality is something that should be "purified" from white Australians in the future.
* ''Series/AFrenchVillage'': Lucienne gets quite upset when she learns Marguerite's a lesbian, telling her she thinks people like her should be locked up, and fears she's a danger to children. She gets over this quickly though, apologizes [[ArmoredClosetGay and sleeps with Marguerite]].

** Richard, Caitlin's dad, expresses distaste for gay couples and says [[MasculineFeminineGayCouple one must be the "man", with the other the "woman"]] in terms of gender roles or specific activities like housework. This is while referencing Sarah and Maggie (the latter being his CO).
** Jenny, Caitlin's mom who's a closeted queer woman, also mentions a far worse example in her native Nigeria, with several lesbians having to flee for their lives after being outed.
* ''Series/WhyWomenKill'': Most of Simone and Karl's friends react poorly after learning he's not only gay, but has HIV. He's shunned and quickly loses his membership in a club.
* ''Series/ForLife'': The Aryan Brotherhood naturally despises queer people. After one of their members thinks he's been outed, he hits a guard just to get into solitary so he'll be safe from them.
* ''Series/TheWilds'': Shelby is a conservative Christian, and voices her view that homosexuality is sinful after Toni imitates cunnilingus on a clam and makes her uncomfortable. She's rebuked by all of the girls. It later turns out she also likes girls, making this an internalized issue. She sheds her view later and gets involved with Toni.
* ''Series/SWAT2017'': "[[Recap/SWATS02E16Pride Pride]]" has the radio host rants against LGBT+ acceptance in LA, in particular having tax-funded Pride events. Some of his listeners take this further, running down a couple men and planning to do this with far more.
* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': The Imperatrix is apparently the only witch in the entire army to take an openly dim view of homosexuality, seeing it as detrimental to the continuation of witch lines. In her introduction, she tells Raelle (a lesbian) that it's her duty to marry a man and have children (her lack of desire for this be damned). Just as you'd expect, Raelle flatly refuses.
* ''Series/BurdenOfTruth'': The pastor of the church Molly's mom goes to is strongly anti-gay, and preaches against this in his sermons. Molly didn't come out to her as a result, afraid that her mom held the same view (but she doesn't, accepting this immediately when she learns Molly's a lesbian).
* ''Series/FortyFourHundred'': Isaiah's church opposed homosexuality and recommended "[[CureYourGays reparative therapy]]" to change people's sexual orientation. He learns his son is gay, and denounces these attitudes, but strugglues due to his own homophobia after hearing this.
* A lot of the prisoners from ''Series/{{Oz}}'' frequently express homophobic and biphobic attitudes on top of their other prejudices. The Aryan Brotherhood is especially bad about this, [[BoomerangBigot even though they frequently take weaker prisoners as their sex slaves]].
* ''Series/InFromTheCold'': Anya and Faina were harassed after being seen together by some guys in 1994, saying they just need sex with a man to "[[CureYourGays fix]]" them. Faina's father clearly disapproves when he sees them together as well, and grounds her for it later. Svetlana also calls Anya a "sissy" when she sees her getting too involved with Faina.
* ''Series/PicnicAtHangingRock'': Dora Lumley is appalled learning that [[spoiler:Marion is seeing Miss [=McCraw=]]] and everyone else besides her friends (one of whom, [[spoiler:Irma]], is also queer) also reacts with homophobia when they learn about this.
* ''Series/ColdCase'': In "[[Recap/ColdCaseS2E22BestFriends Best Friends]]" Rose's boyfriend Ted and older brother Curtis are both disgusted by Billie, who's a {{butch lesbian}}. The latter [[WouldHitAGirl beats her up]] along with his friends, and the former tries to ''shoot'' her (he makes an exception for Rose, who's involved with Billie, thinking it resulted from Billie's "corruption").
* ''Series/AvocadoToast'': After learning she's bisexual, parents at the school where Molly worked want to have her fired. Admittedly, she revealed it with some fairly explicit language.
* ''Series/{{Equal}}'': The majority attitude was homophobic/transphobic in the US when the LGBT+ rights groups began. LGBT+ people were viewed as deviants, social threats, criminals or at best mentally ill across society. They were disowned, fired, blackballed, arrested and sent to mental institutions commonly. The worst cases however were beatings and even murders committed with impunity by homophobes who targeted gays. Police either [[PoliceAreUseless didn't help]] or in a few cases had [[KillerCop killed gays themselves]].
* ''Series/GothamKnights2023'': Harper Row says that, along with [[AbusiveParents beating them]], her dad wasn't happy with her being bisexual and her younger brother Cullen trans, which is another reason the siblings ran away. Detective Ford seems pretty contemptuous of Cullen's gender as well.
* ''Series/Accused2023'': In "Esme's Story" Shaggy is disgusted on realizing that Esme's a lesbian, and (even worse in his mind), her girlfriend Aaliyah is black, denouncing her for this (he's a militant Neo-Nazi).
* ''Series/GenV'': Jordan's parents don't like their female side hastily hide their female accessories (makeup etc) on their parents' unexpectedly coming over to visit. They were also busily having sex with a man at the time in female form, and have him exit hastily. Later on their father expresses discomfort about Jordan's gender, maintaining they're only a boy and doing this to spite him. Jordan replies they're simply being themself.
* ''Series/TheSopranos'':
** Phil Leotardo is already an extremely violent and murderously sadistic mobster with a large body count, but he has a particular hatred for homosexuals. When Vito Spatafore is outed, Phil takes it upon himself to hunt down and kill him, in part due to Vito being the husband of a cousin, and therefore a stain upon his family line. Tony's attempt to negotiate business deals with Phil are stonewalled as long as Vito is still in hiding, as Phil demands that Tony give up Vito's location before resuming any negotiations. This eventually forces Tony to kill Vito or risk a MobWar, but Phil beats him to it, [[HomophobicHateCrime having Vito violently beaten to death and sodomized, simply for being gay]] (and partly to assert his authority over Tony).[[note]]WordOfGod states that another reason was Phil was an ArmoredClosetGay, something only subtly implied in the show.[[/note]]
** Most of the other mobsters are not much better, even getting violent when others joke about implicit gayness (to the point that even going down ''on a woman'' is considered gay). When Tony's gang is given irrefutable proof that Vito is homosexual, they all quickly make it clear they consider this a deep betrayal and voice their declaration of murdering him on first sight. Tony is the only one who really objects, and only out of PragmaticVillainy (due to Vito being a loyal capo and a big earner). Nonetheless, [[EvenEvilHasStandards they are disturbed when they hear about the exceptionally violent way in which Phil killed Vito]] (since they would've just shot him).
* ''Series/OneOfUsIsLying'': Cooper relates that he was attacked when his ex-boyfriend Kyle's older brother learned about the two, with him defending himself. Kyle's brother had blamed Cooper for making him gay. Cooper couldn't tell the cops what happened without outing himself, which he feared would ruin his career in baseball, and so took the blame when the brother claimed he'd broken his nose then unprovoked. He says you can come back from hitting other guys in baseball, though not kissing them, given how pervasive the homophobia is there.

-->'''Slim:''' ''[to Marshall] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters I'm the bullies you hate]]\\
[[HeWhoFightsMonsters That you became]]\\
With every faggot you slaughtered''

* ''Film/ElenaUndone'': Elena's husband Barry is an anti-LGBT+ preacher, which makes things worse when she secretly has an affair with a woman.

* ''Film/{{Steam}}'': It's implied though not stated that Elizabeth's initial anxiety about being into women is due to her parents' conservative Catholic beliefs. When she does come out as a lesbian at the end, her mom is shocked by this and retreats immediately.

** Phil Leotardo is already an extremely violent and murderously sadistic mobster with a large body count, but he has a particular hatred for homosexuals. When Vito is outed, Phil takes it upon himself to hunt down and kill him, in part due to Vito being the husband of a cousin, and therefore a stain upon his family line. Tony's attempt to negotiate business deals with Phil are stonewalled as long as Vito is still in hiding, as Phil demanded that Tony give up Phil's location before resuming any negotiations. This eventually forces Tony to kill Vito or risk a MobWar, but Phil beats him to it, [[HomophobicHateCrime having Vito violently beaten to death and sodomized, simply for being gay]] (and partly to assert his authority over Tony).[[note]]WordOfGod states that another reason was Phil was an ArmoredClosetGay, something only subtly implied in the show.[[/note]]
** Most of the other mobsters are not much better, even getting violent when others joke about implicit gayness (to the point that even going down ''on a woman'' is considered gay). When Tony's gang is given irrefutable proof that Vito is homosexual, they all quickly make it clear they consider this a deep betrayal and voice their declaration of murdering him on first sight. Tony is the only one who really objects, and only out of PragmaticVillainy (due to Vito being a loyal capo and a big earner). Nonetheless, [[EvenEvilHasStandards they are disturbed when they hear about the exceptionally violent nature of his death]] (since they would've just shot him).

* ''Film/MyAnimal'': Heather's mom disapprovingly says her outfit makes her look like a lesbian (while she uses a slur) unaware that she really is a lesbian. After her brothers see her in her DanceOfRomance with Jonny they also act coldly to her. While one of them reconciles with her, the other later angrily calls Heather an anti-lesbian slur and [[spoiler:blames their dad's death on her due to him (supposedly) discovering this (he didn't)]].

A subcategory is WantedAGenderConformingChild. See also HomophobicHateCrimes if the crusader takes things too far.

A subcategory is WantedAGenderConformingChild. See also HomphobicHateCrimes if the crusader takes things too far.

A subcategory is WantedAGenderConformingChild.

* In ''Fanfic/AnUnpleasantSurprise'', Molly's old friend Ashley Harris from Dayton, Ohio is revealed to be this once she finds out Molly and Libby are dating fears they were brainwashed. Her parents are this as well.

* ''Series/OneOfUsIsLying'': Cooper relates that he was attacked when his ex-boyfriend Kyle's older brother learned about the two, with him defending himself. Kyle's brother had blamed Cooper for making him gay. Cooper couldn't tell the cops what happened without outing himself, which he feared would ruin his career in baseball, and so took the blame when the brother claimed he'd broken his nose him unprovoked. He says you can come back from hitting other guys in baseball, though not kissing them, given how pervasive the homophobia is there.

** Most of the other mobsters are not much better, even getting violent when others joke about implicit gayness (to the point that even going down ''on a woman'' is considered gay). When Tony's gang is given irrefutable proof that Vito is homosexual, they all quickly make it clear they consider this a deep betrayal and voice their declaration of murdering him on first sight. Nonetheless, [[EvenEvilHasStandards they are disturbed when they hear about the exceptionally violent nature of his death]] (since they would've just shot him).

* ''Series/GenV'': Jordan's parents don't like their female side hastily hide their female accessories (makeup etc) on their parents' unexpectedly coming over to visit. They were also busily having sex with a man at the time in female form, and have him exit hastily. Later on their father expresses discomfort about Jordan's gender, maintaining their only a boy and doing this to spite him. Jordan replies they're simply being themself.

* ''Film/MyAnimal'': Heather's mom disapprovingly says her outfit makes her look like a lesbian (while she uses a slur) unaware that she really is a lesbian. After her brothers see her in her DanceOfRomance with Jonny they also act coldly to her. One of them later angrily calls Heather an anti-lesbian slur and [[spoiler:blames their dad's death on her due to him (supposedly) discovering this (he didn't)]].

While people who campaign against homosexuality (or on a lower level, are simply personally opposed to it) are certainly TruthInTelevision, this trope is concerned with the fictional use of such characters, usually as a stereotype or plot device, and frequently with traits of a StrawmanPolitical. As with other politically charged topics, classing real people as such would inevitably invite controversy and hostility. Therefore, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease

* Worf of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' can occasionally stumble into this, but generally only in [[OutOfCharacterMoment out of character]] episodes such as "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E17TheOutcast The Outcast]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E07LetHeWhoIsWithoutSin Let He Who Is Without Sin...]]", wherein he is used as the resident [[StrawmanPolitical conservative strawman]]. Consider that normal Klingon sex is pretty kinky and violent by human standards. Or from Worf's perspective, human sex is pretty tame and overly gentle.

* The NewsParody ''Blog/ElChiguireBipolar'' sometimes uses these as [[StrawCharacter Straw Characters]].