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Attitudes toward sexual orientation has been a topic of increasing interest in recent years, and people with homosexual (and also bisexual) orientations have long been stigmatized. This anti-homosexual bias is known as homophobia, and is most widely defined as an irrational fear of homosexuality. Some aspects of homophobia were described in “When You Meet a Lesbian: Hints for the Heterosexual Woman”, and I thought it would be interesting to investigate the causes of this attitudes through this essay. The process of identity formation constitutes a significant part in the development of homophobia, since it relies on labeling and self-labeling. People can’t help labeling others, and categorizing themselves (Mandimore 1996). The simplest example that labeling is the number of “quizzes” found in different magazines, and that offer the reader to discover their deep insights, by helping them decide whether they fit into this category or that one. The first part of this process