You absolutely can be phobic (read: afraid) towards certain cultures and religious values. It is not a secret that people from abrahamic countries more often get their - conservative - values from religion than people in the west nowadays do.
As a bisexual man who has a lot of connections / friends in the gay community, we are afraid and for good reason. People like me suffer from violence every day in the middle east and europe is actively importing massive numbers of immigrants into our place of living who more often than not hold opinions completely different than what I would call „western values“ - and they are much closer to actively showing violence against gay people than the natives who hold „moral conflictions“.
Attacks on gay people are on the rise and whereas gay people had no problem holding hands or showing affection out in the open even in Germany 15 years ago, they are much more cautious now.
