Blue singer Duncan James says Twitter trolls told him he would AIDS and die after he revealed his sexuality.

The bisexual British singer said he has been subject to 'absolutely vile' comments since talking about his personal life on the UK documentary series The Big Reunion. 

‘When I first came out I thought people were going to gay bash me and call me a f*ggot walking down the street,’ he told Now magazine.

‘But these days people can be absolutely vile on Twitter. One troll wrote, “I hope you get AIDS and die, you f*ggot”.’

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.

Tweets described as anti-gay, racist and violent, posted by Britain’s first youth police and crime commissioner, will be investigated by the police.

Paris Brown, 17, appointed to the £15,000 ($23k, €18k) position last week, has already apologized for posting ‘inappropriate’ messages between the ages of 14 and 16.

While Kent police and crime commissioner Ann Barnes has defended Brown, the force said they had received several complaints about the messages.

Millions of Facebook users turned their profile pictures for marriage equality last week, a Facebook report has found.

Roughly 2.7 million people in the US switched their main pics to the Human Rights Campaign image of a pink-on-red equal sign.

Users, as it is the internet, changed their profile photos to various versions of this image, some featuring Lion King characters, Star Wars storm-troopers and even Gay Star News ducks.

Bradley Manning, the US soldier held captive in military prison on suspicion of leaking hundreds of thousands of confidential documents to Wikileaks, plead guilty to 10 out of the 22 charges against him in a military court yesterday.

Manning read out at 35 page statement at the pre-trial hearing in Maryland saying he released the information to the publicly accessible website because he believed Americans should know the 'true costs of war', the Guardian reports.

Robbie Rogers, a former midfielder for the US national team who most recently played in England, casually told his Twitter followers Friday morning that he was 'just getting some sh*t off my chest.'

A proud grandson has described how his grandmother walked out of her church after an anti-LGBT sermon.

The American Reddit user, registered as BMMiller10, posted on the site that his grandmother had changed her conservative attitudes to homosexuality after he came out to her the previous year.

And after her pastor singled out another gay teenager in front of an entire congregation, promising to 'address the problem of homosexuality', she apologized to the teen and walked out.

Singer Adam Lambert used social media to examine the complexities of bullying.

As reported by the site Buzzfeed, the American Idol singer went to Twitter to discuss how best to help people who are bullied.

'I think we should encourage kids to make new friends,' Lambert wrote. 'Reach out to that kid eating alone at lunch. Focus in the positive.'

Celebrity Turkish gay fashion designer, Barbaros Şansal, was seriously beaten last night (27 December) in İstanbul, Turkey.

Şansal is well known in Turkey for being an outspoken gay activist and for his use of witty language.

According to daily Hurriyet, the attack, which took place in Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, had a political motive.

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.

X Factor semi-finalists Union J lost their bid to win the UK singing competition after receiving the fewest amounts of public votes last night (3 December).

After the results were announced, gay band member Jaymi Hensley, 22, said: 'I can’t describe how amazing it’s been, we’ve loved every moment of it.'

Jaymi came out publicly last month after his mentor Louis Walsh gave him the go ahead. He has previously spoken of the overwhelming support he’s received.