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A Louisiana man has been arrested after allegedly verbally and physically assaulting a group of young men in a movie theater because of their sexual orientation.

A gay man from Raleigh, N.C., alleges a taxi drive called him and his friends "faggots" before trying to run him down. A witness, however, claims the group was harassing the driver.

A gay hairdresser from the U.K. has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for stabbing a man with a pair of scissors after hurling anti-gay remarks.

An entire Swedish soccer team has been suspend after athletes hurled anti-gay slurs at rivals during a match earlier this year.

A website founded by Canadian academic researchers reported that more than 2.5 million Twitter uses have used "faggot" in their tweets since July.

A 14-year-old student from Brooklyn is blind in one eye after two bullies viciously attacked him and shouted anti-gay slurs at him.

A speaker at a Tea Party Tax Day protest hurled a homophobic slur towards the LGBT community as gay rights activists protested the event, where one of the most virulently anti-gay activists also spoke.

Wayne Simmonds of the Philadelphia Flyers escaped punishment by the NHL on Tuesday night because the league doesn’t have conclusive evidence he directed a homophobic slur at the Rangers’ Sean Avery.

Pittsburgh linebacker James Harrison apologized Thursday for using an anti-gay slur to refer to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in an interview with "Men’s Journal," and says his critical statements about teammates were taken out of context.

A WWE wrestler took it out of the ring and made it homophobic when he hurled anti-gay invective at an audience member.