The change in the law also made those who had previously voted for the party feel more confident to continue doing so, argues Margot James, the Conservative MP for Stourbridge, who is gay.|| The passing of the act, along with more funds for tackling homophobic bullying in schools, “redressed the balance with Labour”, she says.|| Differences between the two parties over questions of gay rights and equality have become less marked as a result.

1:保守党驻斯陶尔布里奇选区议员玛格特·詹姆斯是同性恋，她认为：法律上的变动让之前投票支持保守党的人坚定了继续支持该党的信心。||2:法案入法，不仅增加了学校处理同性恋遭欺辱事件的资金支持，而且重新调整了与工党之间的平衡关系。||3:同时，两党质疑同性恋权利与平等的程度差异也因此有所减少。

||1:Today gay sex is legal in at least 113 countries.||2:Gay marriages or civil unions are recognised in three dozen and parts of others.||3:In most of the West it is no longer socially acceptable to be homophobic .||4:Gay life in China is now both legal and, in cities, undisguised.||5:Latin America is even more gay-friendly: 74% of Argentines and 60% of Brazilians believe that society should accept homosexuality.||6:Thais are more relaxed about transgender people than Westerners are.||7:South Africa’s constitution is remarkably pro-gay.||8:The young have tended to lead the way: although only 16% of South Koreans over 50 think that homosexuality should be accepted, 71% of 18-to 29-year-olds do.

||1:现在同性恋在至少113个国家是合法的。||2:在30多个国家和地区同性恋结婚或从事民事工会都是得到认可的。||3:在大多数西方国家社会完全接受同性恋。||4:中国的同性恋生活不仅是合法的而且在一些城市城市中更加是光明正大的。||5:拉丁美洲对同性恋更加友好：74% 的阿根廷人和60%的巴西人认为社会应该接受同性恋。||6:泰国人对变性人比西方人更开放。||7:南非宪法是非常赞成同性恋的。||8:年轻人往往是主导：虽然50多岁的韩国人中只有16%认为同性恋应该被接受，但71%的18至29岁的人赞同。

||1: The attack follows a spate of terrorism in Europe. ||2: On October 4th a Syrian asylum seeker stabbed two men, killing one, in the German city of Dresden in what may have been a homophobic attack. ||3: Twelve days later, on the outskirts of Paris, a teenage Chechen refugee beheaded Samuel Paty, a teacher who had shown his class controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine. ||4: On October 29th a Tunisian national who had arrived in France that month killed three people at a church in Nice. ||5: On the same day, French police shot dead a man claiming allegiance to a far-right anti-immigrant group near Avignon.

||1:在此次袭击事件发生之前，欧洲也爆发了一连串的恐怖主义事件。||2:10月4日，在德国的德累斯顿市，一名叙利亚避难者刺伤了两名男子，造成一人死亡，这可能是一起仇视同性恋的袭击事件。||3:12天后，在巴黎郊区，一名十几岁的车臣难民将塞缪尔·帕蒂斩首。帕蒂是一名教师，他曾在课堂上展示了讽刺杂志《查理周刊》出版的有关先知默罕默德的争议漫画。||4:10月29日，一名当月到达法国的突尼斯国民在尼斯的一座教堂中杀害了三人。||5:同一天，法国警方在阿维尼翁附近击毙了一名声称效忠于极右翼移民组织的男子。

||1:This is partly a reaction to the spread of gay rights in the West.||2:Thanks to globalisation, people who live in places where everyone agrees that homosexuality is an abomination can now see pictures of gay-pride parades in Sydney or men marrying men in Massachusetts.||3:They find this shocking.||4:Meanwhile some homophobic Western preachers have gone to fire up anti-gay audiences in Africa, and American conservatives offer advice to countries thinking of drafting anti-gay laws.

||1:这是对同性恋权利在西方国家传播的阻碍。||2:由于全球化，只要是住在大家都憎恶同性恋的地方就可以看到这样的画面：同性恋在悉尼骄傲游行或在马萨诸塞州男人和男人结婚。||3:他们发现这是令人震惊的事。||4:同时，一些同性恋的西方传教士去点燃了非洲反同性恋观众的怒火，美国保守派建议国家考虑制定反同性恋的法律。

||1: Steven Spielberg, an American director and this year’s jury president, dismissed any political symbolism. ||2: “Politics”, he said, “was not in the room with us.” ||3: Yet the Palme d’Or was awarded on a day when protesters took to the streets in Paris for a mass demonstration against a new law that has legalised gay marriage in France, and after a period marked by homophobic violence. ||4: By exploring a love affair between two women, the Franco-Tunisian Mr Kechiche has also made a bold point about female liberty. ||5: And he dedicated his prize to youth in both France and Tunisia, “so as to inspire them to live in freedom.”

||1:作为今年电影节的评审团主席，美国导演史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格拒绝任何形式上将电影同政治相关联。||2:他说：“政治，绝不是我们考虑的因素。”||3:然而，金棕榈奖颁发前，是一段充斥着反同性恋暴力的时间，在这个奖颁发时，法国反对同性婚姻合法化法律的示威者正在巴黎街头举行游行抗议。||4:突裔法国导演柯西胥通过探索女性之间的爱情，在女性自由解放中迈出了坚定的一步。||5:他把他的奖献给所有法国和突尼斯的青年人，“为了让他们能够更加自由的生活。”

“Beinggay isn’t a problem, but living in a homophobic society is. ”

“做一个男同性恋不是个问题，但是生活在恐惧同性恋的社会里才是。”

Alan and the many thousands of other gay men who were convicted as he was convicted under homophobic laws were treated terribly.

艾伦和其他无数男同性恋者曾经被同性恋法律定罪，并受到迫害。

Tracy Morgan’s recent homophobic rant didn’t push the boundaries of comedy; it was hateful and offensive.

崔西.摩根近日发表的憎恨同性恋的言辞，没有超越喜剧的界限；而且显得无礼且令人生厌。

declined to become a priest in protest against a homophobic wave that gripped the Church of England in the 1980s.

但在之后为了抗议二十世纪八十年代侵袭英国教堂针对同性恋恐惧狂思潮，他谢绝了担任牧师职位的机会

The impersonator started arguments with LinkedIn contacts, and sent racist abuse and homophobic rants.

该冒名者和LinkedIn上的联系人展开舌战，还散布种族歧视和反同性恋言论。

The group claims that local tribes are involved in homophobic attacks, choosing members to hunt down the victims.

该组织声称，当地宗族也参与了对同性恋的攻击，会选择成员去追踪受害者。

Furthermore, the homophobic men significantly underestimated their degree of sexual arousal to the gay male porn.

更有甚者，同性恋憎恶者明显低估了自己对男同情色的性冲动程度。

Many Africans view homosexuality as an immoral Western import, and the continent is full of harsh homophobic laws.

很多非洲人把同性恋行为看做是西方输入的不道德的价值观，整个大陆有极多的严苛的同性恋法律。

The country’s mix of vigorous heterosexuality and religiosity have made it one of Africa’s more homophobic places.

强烈的异性恋思想和虔诚的宗教信仰，使乌干达成为了非洲恐同性恋地区中的突出者。

True, 66% of gay and transgender kids said they had heard homophobic remarks.

事实上，66%的同性恋和有变性倾向的孩子听到过害怕同性恋的言论。

I am gay and find it absurd that you think that holding gay people accountable for their actions could be construed as homophobic .

我是个同性恋，我觉得，你认为让同性恋对他们的行为负责就是同性恋恐惧症，这种想法很荒谬。

Scholars will testify about homophobic discrimination.

学者将就同性恋厌恶歧视出庭作证。

The deputy leader of the group, which is based in Baghdad, explained its campaign using a stream of homophobic invective.

这个组织总部设在巴格达，其副首领用一连串谩骂同性恋者的语言解释了这个运动。

’It is a problem right across the country that the police are under huge political pressure to be seen to respond to anything homophobic . ’

这是遍及全国的问题，警方对任何仇视同性恋者的东西所做出的反应都处于巨大的政治压力之下。

This is a fact that no hate-filled, homophobic person can dispute (no matter how hard he or she tries).

这是一个事实，没有哪个内心充满厌恶的同性性恋者可以抗拒（不管他或她多么努力去尝试）。

It also seeks common ground with Nigeria’s homophobic Muslims.

这也能找到与痛恨同性恋的尼日利亚穆斯林和睦相处的基础。