Alan Gordon, a forward for Major League Soccer's San Jose Earthquakes, has received his punishment after hurling a homophobic slur towards Portland Timbers midfielder Will Johnson. 

Details after the jump. 

Updated Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. (PST):

The New York Times is reporting Rutgers has now fired coach Mike Rice. New details below...

Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy Pascal challenged Hollywood to take a big step in the right direction last night as she was being honored by the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center at a sold out gala benefiting homeless gay & lesbian youth. 

Her message? Change the way we talk about gays in movies and eliminate gay stereotypes and slurs. 

She asks, “How about next time, when any of us are reading a script and it says words like fag, or faggot – homo – dyke – take a pencil and just cross it out." 

Imagine that. More after the jump.

Downtown Portland's Lonesome Pizza caused quite an outcry amongst the transgender community and their allies when a controversial menu item called "tranny stix" was highlighted by Transadvocate on Facebook. 

The "tranny stix" (they're actually breadsticks) were paired on the menu with a picture of Lonesome Pizza co-owner Nic Reddy dressed in drag.

However, in a move that gives us hope (and has us ready to chow down on a slice), Reddy issued an honest apology. Check it out after the jump!

Well this may be our "Idiot of the Day," but feel free to send us other suggestions, Instincters!

A Pennsylvania councilman sent out a test email via the citywide alert system. The brilliant message? 

“Alert: This is a test. Brian is gay."

Classy. What's even more awesomely idiotic is that upon being chastised for it he claimed that he meant Brian was "happy." 

Really. More after the jump.

Azealia Banks might not have earned all of her LGBT cred back from her f-bomb Twitter fight with Perez Hilton, but her crowd-sourcing to redefine "faggot" is somewhat of an olive branch.

...or is Azealia still trying to defend her use of the word in early January?

...yes, the same Kobe Bryant who was punished for calling a ref a "faggot" in 2011!

At GitHub, a community devoted to the altruism of sharing code with fellow developers, a severe lack of diversity is shining through in many lines of open-source code. Is it time for the development community to take stock and have a conversation about offensive language perpetuated behind the scenes of the Internet?

A new anti-homophobia PSA from the University of Alberta's Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services asks why "faggot" isn't censored? Check out the convincing PSA that features head shaking data on the use of the f-word in media after the break. 

Updated Monday, 11:20 a.m. EST

Scissor Sister frontman Jake Shears didn't take too kindly to Azealia Banks' use of faggot and suicide against Perez Hilton, and decided to open up the classroom to teach the rising hip hop star a lesson. 

Noah Syndergaard, a new acquisition for the New York Mets, is getting his MLB career in the lower 48 started on the wrong foot after tweeting an anti-gay slur. Details follow. 

One of the few things about group sports we learned from Chi Chi LaRue: when one man goes down, they all go down. This morsel of wisdom recently came to life in Sweden, where an entire football team was suspended for one year by its management for using homophobic slurs on field against a mixed-orientation opposing team.