Why are people homophobic? | What's Behind Prejudice? Episode 2 | BBC Ideas

In the latest in our series about prejudice - and the underlying reasons behind it - we speak to LGBT activist Richard Beaven about some of the reasons behind homophobia. And he shares his own personal story of coming out as gay when he was almost 40.

Want to watch more like this? Here's the first in our prejudice series, Why are people racist?    • Why are people racist? | What's Behin...  

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