Retired NFL player LeRoy Butler decision to send a tweet of support to now openly-gay NBA player Jason Collins has cost him an $8,500 speaking gig at a Wisconsin church.

Butler, who played safety for the Green Bay Packers, does not name the church but he took to Twitter today to share the fallout from the tweet to which simply read: 'Congrats to Jason Collins.'

Apparently some parents saw the tweet and complained to the church.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the teenage suspect in custody for the Boston marathon bombings, liked to post homophobic jokes on Twitter.

19 year-old Tsarnaev was captured Friday evening (19 April) after he and his older brother were identified as suspects in the bombing of the Boston Marathon that left 183 people injured and three people dead.

The suspect’s older brother, 26 year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot dead by police after the two suspects led authorities on a violent chase.

A 17 year-old police commissioner from Kent is being taken to task for inappropriate tweeting.

Paris Brown, who according to the Daily Mail: ‘was appointed last week to the £15,000 taxpayer-funded post to represent young people’s views on policing’ is now facing calls to quit her role for tweets where she calls people 'fags' and 'illegals'.

Though the teenager's Twitter account @vilulabelle has been cancelled, the Daily Mail published several of her unsavory Tweets.

A Welsh teenager who came third in Britain's Got Talent has spoken out about being the victim of anti-gay bullying on Twitter.

Morgan Westcott was a runner-up on the hit TV talent show last year with choir Only Boys Aloud.

However, he admitted to Welsh current affairs program Hacio he hasn't always felt like a winner and confessed to being bullied since he was seven.

'I've always had people calling me gay because I sing and didn't want to play football or rugby,' the 14-year-old from Treorchy said, reports ITV1.

Liverpool Football Club player Suso has been fined £10,000 ($16,220, €12,300) for using the word 'gay' to insult team mate Jose Enrique on Twitter.

The Spanish midfielder, real name Jesús Joaquín Fernández Sáez de la Torre, posted a picture of Enrique getting his teeth whitened, with the comment: ‘What fuck is he doing?... This guy is gay. He has some mental problems. He does everything except play football.’

Despite quickly deleting the offensive comments, the 19-year-old's tweet has landed himself in trouble with the UK's Football Association.

Maybe a few of us have too much time on our hands to express bigotry. As reported by Gawker, someone started a Twitter hashtag called '#SignsYoSonIsGay.'

Expedia's recent advertising campaign backing same-sex marriage has seen a homophobic backlash on Facebook and YouTube.

The advert, created by the online travel website and called 'Find Your Understanding: Expedia Find Yours', features a father accepting his daughter’s wedding to another woman.

But despite receiving over 1.4 million likes on Expedia's Facebook page, the video received over 155 dislikes followed by hundreds of homophobic comments.

Welsh footballer Daniel Thomas will not face charges after tweeting homophobic abuse about British Olympic divers Tom Daley and Peter Waterfield.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has ruled out prosecuting Thomas today (20 September), saying it was a 'one-off offensive Twitter message'.

The full statement reads: 'This was, in essence, a one-off offensive Twitter message, intended for family and friends, which made its way into the public domain.

According to Russia Today, Russian Orthodox activists have demand a nationwide ban on Facebook as the social networking website recently enabled same-sex couples to use an gay marriage icon to represent their union.

Last month the popular social networking site introduced same-sex marriage status icons: one depicting two brides, the other two grooms.

The Roanoke Athletic Club in Virginia, currently being sued by a gay couple who had their family membership revoked, posted on its Facebook page Thursday (5 July) that it is changing its policy to include 'household' memberships

Will Trinkle and Juan Granados, who joined the club with their 2-year-old son through a family membership, were called nine days later by a club employee who told them a mistake had been made. They say they were told the state of Virginia does not consider them to be a real family.

Facebook has launched a new icon to recognize gay marriage, continuing the social networking site's efforts to be more LGBT friendly.

The picture of a gay and lesbian couple will appear on the timeline of Facebook users who have indicated that they have wed a person of the same-sex and will be used instead of the one for straight partners.

In 2011, Facebook gave users the option to update their relationship status with 'In a Civil Union' and 'In a Domestic Partnership'.

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