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Newly acquired New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard issued an apology Tuesday after becoming the latest professional athlete caught for tweeting an anti-gay slur. [ Read more → ]

The Westboro Baptist Church, home of anti-gay extremists and the "Gods Hate Fags" fundamentalist movement, announced via Twitter on Sunday plans to picket at the scene of the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting. [ Read more → ]

Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs for the anti-gay organization Liberty Counsel, marked World AIDS Day with a tweet on Friday declaring that AIDS is a metaphor of "God's love for gays," with a link to a photograph of a young AIDS victim on his deathbed. [ Read more → ]

An Asheville-area Republican political operative has taken to Twitter to call Susan Wilson, an openly lesbian contender for a N.C. State House seat, “an old ugly dyke.” [ Read more → ]

EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada -- The University of Alberta’s Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services in Edmonton has created a new Canadian social-media experiment that found millions of anti-gay slurs on Twitter within the past two months. [ Read more → ]

Cable News Network (CNN) on Wednesday announced it has suspended commentator Roland Martin over a series alleged anti-gay Twitter "tweets" on Sunday in response to a Super Bowl commercial by retailer H&M that featured soccer player David Beckham. [ Read more → ]

CNN commentator Roland Martin has come under fire by gay rights advocates and GLAAD -- the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation -- for perceived homophobic Twitter "tweets" following an advertisement of retailer H&M's Super Bowl commercial featuring soccer player David Beckham. [ Read more → ]

Millions of Americans will dress in purple on Thursday -- both in person and online -- to mark the second annual Spirit Day, a day demonstrate support for LGBT youth and to speak out against bullying. [ Read more → ]

LGBT ally Cher does not like GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, and she’s not afraid to tell you either — or her 290,000+ Twitter followers. [ Read more → ]

Cee Lo Green, who on Friday took to Twitter and called a reviewer "gay" for writing a negative review of his June 16 performance in Minneapolis, said he said shouldn't "have to apologize for speaking my mind or defending my performance." [ Read more → ]

In response to a negative review by City Pages’ Andrea Swennson, Cee Lo Green on Friday took to Twitter, calling the reviewer gay for writing the review. [ Read more → ]

One of Australia’s biggest outdoor advertising companies reversed its decision to ban billboards promoting safe homosexual sex, just one day after ordering their removal from Brisbane-area bus shelters. [ Read more → ]

Rapper 50 CENT is defending his controversial Twitter post from earlier this week, insisting the comment -- which implied gay men should commit suicide -- was misinterpreted. The ill-timed post has infuriated members of the LGBTQ community [...] [ Read more → ]

I've spent more time on Jersey Shore and Ronnie Magro than I care to, but in the interest of equal time, here's is Magro's apology, posted Wednesday on Twitter. Earlier this week, TMZ.com released unaired footage of Magro in an altercation with an unidentified man... [ Read more → ]

Adam Lambert had a simple response to the impassioned open letter penned by the editor in chief of Out magazine, alleging that the flamboyant "American Idol" runner-up's management team is attempting to push him back into the closet: Chill out. Lambert took to his Twitter... [ Read more → ]

HLN's Joy Behar talks with singer Dolly Parton about her gay following, and Joel Osteen saying gays are "not God's best." Says Parton replies: “I just think they [gays] appreciate the fact that I just love everybody for who they are, and love them as... [ Read more → ]

Larry Johnson's agent said he and the Kansas City Chiefs agreed Saturday night to cut the running back's two-week suspension in half, saving him more than $300,000. The Chiefs previously suspended Johnson for two weeks until Nov. 9 for what they called conduct "detrimental" to... [ Read more → ]

Kansas City Chiefs starting running back Larry Johnson was issued a two-week suspension Wednesday night for "conduct detrimental to the team." Johnson posted disparaging remarks Sunday night on his Twitter page, starting with a remark about Coach Todd Haley’s lack of football playing experience. He... [ Read more → ]

The Kansas City Chiefs have barred running back Larry Johnson from practice and all other team activities as the club and the NFL look into comments he made Monday to reporters in the locker room. According to multiple reports, Johnson — in telling reporters to... [ Read more → ]

"It's gay. If one more person asks me if I have a Twitter, I'm going to tell them, 'Twitter this [bleep], mother[bleep]er.' [ Read more → ]