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N.M. state lawmaker compares gays to ‘whores,’ suggests they marry women
A New Mexico state lawmaker has come under fire from LGBT advocates for a recent blog post in which he referred to gays as “whores” and suggested they should find local women to marry.
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Twitter faces possible lawsuit over trending anti-gay hashtags
A French gay rights group said on Monday it plans to file a law suit against Twitter for violating the country’s hate speech laws following the emergence of the hashtag “#Gays must die,” which topped Twitter’s “trending topics” over the weekend.
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CBS, ‘Big Brother’ airs contestants’ racist, ethnic, homophobic slurs
LOS ANGELES — CBS’ “Big Brother” tackled the growing controversy surrounding some of its contestants head-on on Sunday’s episode, airing the controversial racist comments that had previously aired only on the show’s online live stream.
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Zimbabwe president says gays, lesbians who do not conceive should be jailed
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Friday threatened to jail gays and lesbians for failing to conceive an offspring as he launched his party’s campaign for this month’s general election.
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NYPD seeks assault suspects who hurled anti-gay slurs on subway
NEW YORK — New York City police are asking for the public’s help in locating two men who allegedly hurled anti-gay slurs at a group on a subway train and allegedly shoved a woman to the floor as she videotaped the incident.
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Catholic Cardinal refers to gay U.S. Ambassador nominee as ‘faggot’
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — President Barack Obama’s choice of openly gay nominee, James “Wally” Brewster as Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, has touched off a firestorm of criticism including from Catholic Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, who referred to Brewster in Spanish as a “maricón” — a slur usually translated as “faggot.”
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Pacers’ Roy Hibbert apologizes for gay slur, cursing – fined $75,000 by NBA
Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert was fined $75,000 on Sunday by the NBA for using a gay slur and cursing during his news conference after Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals.
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Police arrest two men in beating of gay men in New York City
NEW YORK — Two men were arrested in connection with the beating of two gay men in Manhattan early Friday and police are investigating whether there is a link to an earlier anti-gay attack in the same area on Sunday.
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LSU football player is sorry ‘if you were hurt’ that he called gays sissies
BATON ROUGE, La. — A college football player at Louisiana State University apologized Friday for saying gays should not play football because they are sissies.
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San Jose Earthquakes forward Alan Gordon suspended for gay slur
SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose Earthquakes forward Alan Gordon has been suspended for three games and fined an undisclosed amount for what Major League Soccer called “unacceptable and offensive language” toward an opponent after using an anti-gay slur.