Despite being criticized for its limited scope and its inherent psychologising bias, the concept of homophobia remains more popular than those of heterosexism and heteronormativity. This is true in the scientific literature, as well as in the spheres of activism and intervention. It may prove to be easier to shed light on the limits of homophobia if we closely examine the inferiorizing processes that each concept can cover and the intervention possibilities homophobia and heterosexism respectively allow. Without necessarily proscribing the use of homophobia, it should come second to the analytical lens that properly puts the emphasis on the political character of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and queer people’s inferiorization.