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.

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?

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?

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. 

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. 

Yikes. American Apparel CEO Dov Charney has been accused of allegedly choking an employee, attacking him with gay slurs, and throwing dirt in his face.

More after the jump.

Is Chris Brown hurling homophobic slurs again? 

RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting that Brown attacked one of his fans by calling him a "faggot" on Friday night in Los Angeles. 

The story sounds a little sketchy though. Give us your take after the jump.

Another terrifying attack from over the weekend in the Midwest has come to our attention. As with police involved in the Lincoln nightmare, despite obvious evidence, Oklahoma City law enforcement officials are not yet calling the firebombing of a gay man's car that had been spray painted with "fag" a hate crime. Details follow.

Updated Tuesday, 3:15 p.m. PST

Fumbling through deflection in a way that would make her mother proud, Bristol Palin has responded to the recent uproar over her son Tripp's use of an anti-gay slur and her subsequent giggle fit.

Bristol "sets the record straight" after the jump.

The gay community in Nebraska's capital—already involved in a contentious battle over Lincoln's recently approved anti-discrimination clause—have even more on their plate after a horrific anti-gay hate crime occurred on Sunday morning.