A soccer player scored the winning goal after being called a ‘faggot’ this weekend.

Alan Gordon, the San Jose Earthquakes forward, hurled the gay slur at Will Johnson, a midfielder for the Portland Timbers.

On Sunday night (14 April), Johnson’s goal gave his team a 1-0 win.

Gordon was ejected minutes earlier by soccer officials after calling Johnson ‘faggot’.

After the match, he apologized: ‘I would like to sincerely apologize to everyone who watched tonight's match on NBC Sports Network.

A gay man was beaten unconscious as his attacker repeatedly called him a faggot in Davis, California, over the weekend.

Mikey Partida, 32, had been celebrating his birthday and was leaving his cousin's house early Sunday (10 March) when the attack occurred.

Partida said a man who lived near his cousin began to verbally harass him as he was leaving the house.

He said he ignored the loud taunts of 'faggot' and quickly walked by. But then he had to turn around and go back to his cousin's house to retrieve his keys.

Sometimes it's best to walk away from Twitter.

Singer Azealia Banks is having a second round of anti-gay bigotry. The set up is easy. She remixed the Internet sensation the Harlem Shake. Baauer, the artist behind the hit, didn't appreciate Banks' interpretation. There was a Twitter conversation, and Banks said the following:

Police are investigating a so-called ‘Muslim Patrol’ in London who have been harassing men for looking ‘gay’.

In video footage posted on YouTube from the weekend (19-20 January), it shows a group calling a passerby a ‘bloody fag’.

‘Hello mate, don’t you know this is a Muslim area?’ asks a male member. ‘Why you dressed like that for?’

When asked why they were bothering him, the group says: ‘Cause you’re walking through a Muslim area dressed like a fag! You need to get out of here!’

American rapper and singer Azealia Banks has defended using a homophobic slur against Perez Hilton on Twitter.

The ‘BBD’ singer reacted to criticism from the gay blogger by calling him a ‘messy faggot’.

She went on to call him ‘dickbreath’ and told him to go ‘gobble a dick’.

Referring to her various feuds with other artists, Hilton told the foul-mouthed singer: ‘Some of your music is cute, but your attention-seeking ways are pathetic and hurtful. You drag while others choose to uplift!’

Orlando Cruz, the first professional boxer to come out as gay, has spoken out about being gay in an extremely macho world.

The 31-year-old Puerto Rican said boxing is a sport largely dominated by men who think gays have to conform to a very specific stereotype.

In an interview with Spiegel Online, he said the spectators had accepted him.

Hip hop star Chris Brown has been accused of attacking a fan, calling him a 'faggot'.

The singer is reported to have attacked Lucas Peter after he asked Brown for an autograph outside a movie theater in Los Angeles on Friday (19 October).

'The movie let out and I saw Chris come out the front door, sort of semi-running. I approached Chris and asked him to sign my CD cover,' Lucas told RadarOnline.com in an interview.

Even in this age of increased awareness via It Gets Better and other campaigns, the anti-gay slur 'faggot' continues to thrive - particularly on Twitter where it has been used in 2.4 million tweets since July.

That and other figures about such slurs were released Wednesday (26 September) by the University of Alberta’s Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services.

Madonna has spoken out against Pussy Riot’s conviction after their pro-gay, anti-Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral.

The three members of the band, Maria Alekhina, Ekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were sentenced to two years in prison for ‘hooliganism’.

The pop star released a statement yesterday (18 August) condemning the Russian punk band’s conviction, and urged other artists to speak out for the band.

Scott Silveri, creator of the new NBC sitcom Go On, says that even though he's not gay, he did have an experience similar to what he imagines coming out is like.

He had already cast Julie White to be one of Matthew Perry's co-stars in the new comedy about an irreverent yet charming sportscaster (Perry) who, after the loss of his wife, finds solace from members of his mandatory group therapy sessions.

He then had to call the actress to inform her that there had been a change in her character: she was now a lesbian.

Former Manchester United footballer Ravel Morrison has been fined £7,000 for posting a homophobic tweet.

The 19-year-old midfielder, who recently transferred from the world's most famous club to West Ham United, was charged by the UK's Football Association of 'using abusive and/or insulting words' in a tweet.