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The NBA will fine L.A. Laker Kobe Bryant $100,000 for using antigay words toward a referee Tuesday night. Bryant was caught yelling at the referee after he punched a chair on the sidelines. Video showed him mouthing an antigay slur at the referee, but audible confirmation from the bench was not immediately available.

While the fine isn't final yet, the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa are already raising funds to cover it — but GoFundMe won't host their campaign.

Out celebrity chef Cat Cora plead no contest at the sentencing for the DUI citation she received on June 17 in Santa Barbara, CA. Cora will not face jail time as long as she completes all of the other court requirements, including DUI classes, probation and paying a fine.

A Russian official warned that if Madonna does indeed speak out against an antigay law recently passed in St. Petersburg banning the dissemination of "gay propaganda," she and concert promoters could face a fine of up to 500,000 rubles, or US$16,700.

Arrested Development stunner Portia de Rossi was named to People’s Most Beautiful list for 2013, and with that honor, she was also featured in a minute long video released on the magazine’s website where she discussed her style choices now that she’s 40.

You may not know her name, but you have seen her paintings everywhere from gift bags in Macy’s Department Store to a 2'8"x150 foot tile mural for Ontario International Airport. Synthia Saint James is an internationally known artist whose illustrations are on over 60 book covers including the literary works of African American women authors like Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Iyanla Vanzant and Julia Boyd. With her paintings running in the thousands of dollars Saint James most noted work costs no more than 37 cents when the United States Postal Service commissioned her to create the first Kwanzaa Stamp in 1997.

The bakers claimed they were victims of discrimination based on their religious beliefs.

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A high school student in Birmingham, Ala., is free to wear a gay-supportive T-shirt after the Southern Poverty Law Center threatened to sue her school district because administrators found the shirt offensive. Sara Couvillion's "Gay? Fine By Me" shirt landed her in trouble with school officials. The SPLC told a CBS News affiliate that she wore the shirt to school several times during the last school year. However, an official eventually told her to stop wearing the shirt because administrators feared for the 15-year-old student's safety, even though Couvillion said she never experienced or reported violence against her. After the SPLC threatened to sue for her right to wear the shirt, the school administrators backed down from their original position.