Gay Slurs

Houston Dynamo winger Colin Clark is under fire for calling a ball boy a "fucking faggot" in Friday night's soccer match in Seattle after he wasn't issued a new ball as quickly as he wanted on a throw-in situation. [ Read more → ]

Openly gay entertainer Lance Bass was the target of a series of anti-gay slurs, sent to him in a series of Facebook messages on Saturday. [ Read more → ]

ATLANTA — Police have arrested one of three suspects in the videotaped beating of a 20-year-old gay man who was attacked outside a convenience store in a southwest Atlanta neighborhood on Feb. 4. [ Read more → ]

ATLANTA -- Atlanta Police Chief George Turner on Thursday said police have identified suspects in a videotaped attack on a gay man leaving after he left a convenience store in a southwest Atlanta neighborhood. [ Read more → ]

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A gay couple has filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court against several officers from the Cleveland Police Department, alleging several officers of the department violated the couple’s constitutional rights stemming from an arrest last April. [ Read more → ]

Turkey’s High Court of Appeals has ordered the Turkish daily paper Yeni Akit to pay compensation for insulting LGBT people in a headline it printed in 2008, according to a report published by Hürriyet. [ Read more → ]

MOSCOW -- As tens of thousands of protesters braved sub zero temperatures across the Russian Federation last week to protest against the alleged election fraud and corruption by the Putin led government, demanding more freedom and democracy, leading Russian LGBTQ activists claimed that the opposition movement leadership excluded them. [ Read more → ]

TROY, Mich. -- Reports claiming Troy Mayor Janice Daniels was fired from her job at Century 21 Town & Country are not true, according to the manager of the real estate office where Daniels worked. [ Read more → ]

TROY, Mich. -- In a city council meeting that stretched five hours until nearly 1 a.m. Tuesday, residents of Troy, Mich. blasted mayor Janice Daniels over comments she posted to Facebook last June about gay marriage, which included a gay slur. [ Read more → ]

TROY, Mich. -- The blog “Keep Troy Strong” -- which is dedicated to progressive politics in this Michigan city -- has unearthed a June 25 Facebook comment by Troy’s new mayor, Janice Daniels, in which she wrote, “I think I am going to throw away my 'I Love New York' carrying bag now that queers can get married there.” [ Read more → ]

DENVER -- A San Diego gay couple returning home from celebrating Thanksgiving alleges a United Airlines agent bullied and intimidated them, called them "faggots," and threatened with being banned from their flight, all because they complained about poor customer service from United employees. [ Read more → ]

LOS ANGELES -- Film director Brett Ratner on Tuesday resigned as one of the producers of the annual Academy Awards telecast after igniting a firestorm of criticism for using a gay slur, in which he said "rehearsal is for fags." [ Read more → ]

RENO, Lamar County, Texas -- The Lamar County District Attorney's office told LGBTQ Nation Wednesday that three men have been arrested and charged in the malicious wounding of 26 year old Burke Burnett last weekend in Reno, Texas. [ Read more → ]

RENO, Lamar County, Texas -- An openly gay Texas man was brutally attacked at a private party early Sunday, sustaining second-degree burns and severe bruises, and requiring over 30 stitches to close stab wounds to his torso, forearm, and forehead near his left eye. [ Read more → ]

A Salt Lake City gay man was hospitalized following a brutal attack last Friday night after leaving a downtown dance club on its gay-themed night. It is the second attack on a gay man this year outside the same club. [ Read more → ]

Iowa’s Republican Governor Terry Branstad on Monday said “there’s no connection at all between Iowa’s debate over gay marriage rights and the death of Waterloo teen Marcellus Andrews.” [ Read more → ]

Police have confirmed the death of a 19-year-old college student in Waterloo, Iowa, who was brutally beaten in the early morning hours on Friday, and whose attackers shouted anti-gay slurs and kicked him in the face. [ Read more → ]

A gay couple is suing California's Great America amusement park, claiming that park employees doctored a photograph of them, then displayed it publicly and captioned with a gay slur. [ Read more → ]

The ACLU of Florida on Monday reached a settlement in a lawsuit against the City of Miami Beach and two police officers on behalf of Harold Strickland, a gay former Miami Beach resident wrongfully arrested in March 2009 in retaliation for calling 911 to report that police officers were beating and kicking a man who lay handcuffed on the ground. [ Read more → ]

Police have arrested and charged 21-year-old Dillan Joseph Cashman with intimidation and assault in an early morning attack on a gay man after insulting him and his parter with gay slurs. [ Read more → ]