Homophobia in Society

I recently read an article for my gender studies class called "How Homophobia Hurts Everyone." As I was reading this, I was able to put some of the sociological perspectives with what this article was saying. The author of this article states that homophobia works of four distinct but interacting levels, which are:
1. Personal: This is where people hold their own personal beliefs or prejudice about LGBTs (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transexuals) that they should be pitied, phychologically disturbed, hated, defective, or being inferior to homosexuals.
2. Interpersonal: This is where the personal prejudices affect relations among individuals by transforming prejudice into discrimination through name calling, violence, rejecting, etc.
3. Institutional: This is when governments, businesses, educational systems, religions, and professional organizations systimatically discriminate on the bases of sexual orientation through laws, codes, and policies.
4. Cultural: These are the social norms or codes of behavior that work within a society that legitimize oppression. For example, the media and history excluding images of LGBT people.
Conflict theory would look at this as LGBT people versus the rest of society. The "norms" in society are constantly oppressing LGBT people because they are seen as different, thus a threat to society. Many LGBTs struggle with getting health coverage or being accepted into many religions. The struggles they encounter are endless because society stigmatizes them as different. And when one group is being pushed down, the other one pushing them down is naturally benefiting from this by fitting into society and getting the jobs, health care, housing, and just generally accepted by most people.
This also can be looked at with symbolic interactionism. What part of our sociolization has created the labels of "fag", "butch", "queer", or the term "gay" as meaning stupid? LGBTs are seen as differing form the norm of society through the norms set by all social institutions. The main part of this article states why homophobia hurts not only LGBTs, but also heterosexuals as well. A couple interesting ones to point out are; it compromises the integrity of heterosexuals by pressuring them into treating others badly, which actions are contrary to their basic humanity. Another one he mentions is that homophobia restricts communications with a significant portion of the population and limits family relationships. It's interesting when looked at from this point of view because it puts negetive outcomes on both the opressed and the opressors.