He was also accused of homophobic behavior by some LGBT organizations.

His background leads Sam into conflict, as other characters exhibit openly sexist, homophobic, disablist and racist behaviour, and often indulge all these prejudices while carrying out their police duties.

"Football clubs are right to want to end the racist, homophobic and generally nasty behaviour that sometimes shames our national sport," she said.

To promote the elimination of any homophobic or transfobic behaviour.

But it was revolutionary for Jamaica, where homophobic behavior is pervasive in just about every aspect of public life.

Dr. Wright wrote in an open letter that he had warned fraternities and sororities that they would be expected to prevent racist, sexist and homophobic behavior.

Soon after enrolling at the University of Maryland, he befriended LGBT students in his theatre classes and became increasingly aware of the pain caused by homophobic behavior.

In a report last fall, it said there had been "widespread acceptance of the new policy" and "no reported difficulties of note concerning homophobic behavior" among service personnel.

The ground regulations say you cannot use homophobic behaviour.

Other characters in the novel discover her crush and employ various means of physical and emotional abuse and violence, displaying strong homophobic behaviors.