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Homophobia is a result of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. People are homophobic in the same way that ants exile old and dying ants, because they don't serve the colony.
Tribes under heavy survival pressure need to reproduce to perpetuate their existence. Homosexual sex in these circumstances is like freeloading, you're having all the pleasures of sex without the corresponding commitment to reproduction and rearing children. Tribes facing survival pressures therefore punish homosexual acts, because they need to encourage higher birthrates. This imperative gets encoded in various religious doctrines, but the underlying psychobiological motives are the true cause.

Evidence for this can be seen in the fact that shithole countries where life is cheap tend to be more homophobic, while rich developed countries tend to be more lax about it, and this correlation has been constant throughout history,

Modern evolutionary take is socio-biology of E.O. Wilson, in particular On Human Nature and Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.

An alternate name for the topic is Group Selection Theory, the idea we select and evolve as groups rather than as individuals.