How to deal with homophobic roommates?

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I would consider legal options. It sounds like you are being threatened and harassed sexually in your home and that must be illegal. I would say if possible, hit them with a restraining order and make them move out with it. I don't know if you can do that. Unfortunately, in California, it is illegal to record people without their knowledge. Perhaps you want to record them with their knowledge if you don't think this will cause them to attack you. You don't want to threaten their safety and what I am suggesting here may be seen as retaliation and escalate a situation you want to deescalate. Perhaps you can find another place and if you have a lease, you can surely break it with this provocation. You don't have to live where you are being threatened.
On the other hand, if they will talk that way when they know they are being recorded, you may be able to get the police to do something about it. They have a lot more lattitude with the patriot act making almost any unkind words a "terroristic threat." But the police there may be just as homophobic as you roommates.
I don't know what to say. I don't know how to deal with people and my own solutions do tend to get me in trouble. But It makes me so angry I feel I had to say something.
In the last instance, if you become suicidal and can't see anything left to live for,I would leave a note explaining all of this and kill them all first. But that is just me...