True Left

Homophobia is so deeply rooted in Western thinking that the fastest way to get bullies to stop bullying LGBT people back in the Counterculture era was to claim that bullying LGBT people was a symptom of the bullies suppressing their own "homosexual" tendencies*, which of course was the last thing the bullies wanted to be even suspected of having. In short, homophobic psychology had to be invoked to stop homophobic actions.

(* For the record, I never believed this to actually be the case, generally speaking.)