Yet, not all receipt stories in the news turn out to be legit: A waitress in New Jersey who said a couple had left her an anti-gay note on a meal receipt was suspended from her job after it was revealed that she might have made the whole thing up.
Earlier this year, a lesbian couple was handed an anti-gay note from a North Carolina cafe owner, who decried homosexuality as an act against God's will.
UPDATE as of Nov. 26, 2013: NBC 4 New York is now reporting that the family that Morales served on Nov. 13 is refuting the waitress's claims, saying they paid a tip and did not leave an anti-gay note.
Savage shrugged off the idea of a gay mob, noting, "No gay rights organizations had called for him to step down.
Forgiving, as Roxane Gay notes in a recent New York Times op-ed, "time and time again while racism or white silence in the face of racism continues to thrive" is exhausting.
Former President Bill Clinton praised NBA center Jason Collins for becoming the first male athlete in a major professional sport to come out as gay, noting Collins' friendship with his daughter, Chelsea.
The group permeated the mainstream media in 1998, when members picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a Wyoming man who was murdered because he was gay, notes NPR.
However, GayNZ questioned whether the pattern was solely gay, noting the equally tragic outcomes of homosexual and heterosexual relationships in American shows Buffy and Nip/Tuck.
One Vatican official, speaking on the traditional condition of anonymity, said he was not surprised that Francis had spoken of a gay lobby, but noted that the summary lacked "context and tone".
Historian Barry Adam, talking about the Stonewall riots in The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement, notes: "Every social movement must choose at some point what to retain and what to reject out of its past.
