The Wipeout Homophobia On Facebook's own website www.WHOF.net has reached an amazing SIX MILLION hits.

The website which works in tandem with the 'Wipeout Homophobia On Facebook ' facebook group, and has been running for just 17 months, hosts a plethora of support and information pages.

The pages deal with such subjects as Suicide, Bullying, Sexuality, Gender, and Coming out, as well as monthly guest writer pages, a great page on Alan Turing Year and a hilarious page of replies to hate mail received by WHOF founder Kevin O'Neil.

"WHOF, all started on the 9th May 2010. During a search for a gay group I found two hate pages. They only had a few members , but all I could think was what if one of my family found this page and read  the hate speech. I decided to"report" both pages. Hate speech is illegal in most of the free world and is also against Facebook's own terms of use.

I sent links to the pages to some friends so they too could report them, they replied  with links to others  I thought that rather than 30 of us sending each other messages, I would collate the links on one Facebook page. An hour later there were hundreds of members and by the end of the day a thousand had joined, today there are over 310,000 members" says Kevin,from Durham in the North east of England, who later created the website to accompany the facebook page in September of 2010.

Wipeout Homophobia on Facebook (WHOF) hit an amazing 300,000 members this week with a staggering 63 MILLION post views over the past month.

The website www.whof.net alone has 6 million hits also. WHOF started on the 9th May 2010 during a search for a gay groups two hate pages were found.

Kevin O'Neil from WHOF comments, "They only had a few members, but all I could think was what if one of my family found this page and read the hate speech. I decided to"report" both pages. Hate speech is illegal in most of the free world and is also against Facebook's own terms of use. I sent links to the pages to some friends so they too could report them, they replied  with links to others  I thought that rather than 30 of us sending each other messages, I would collate the links on one Facebook page. An hour later there were hundreds of members and by the end of the day a thousand had joined."

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'Proud2Be' is a new Internet-based project, founded in June 2011 by gay twin brothers Matthew and Jonathan Price.

As children the overriding message they both received from their school and church, the media and society was that being gay was something to be ashamed of. The Proud2Be Project intends to let the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender youth know that there are people in the world like them who are proud to be who they are.

"We both feel there is a huge need for LGBT kids to see and hear a different message; so they grow up loving who they are rather than apologising for who they are- hence the Proud2Be project. We are hoping that a diverse mix of people send us their videos and not just from the LGBT community but from friends, teachers, parents and supporters of the LGBT community too"

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Google and Stonewall have partnered on a new Google Chrome TV ad to raise awareness in the UK of the urgent need to tackle homophobic bullying and to inspire young people. Using the slogan, 'the web is what you make of it', the ad aims to demonstrate how powerful campaigns can be made by bringing people and communities together online.

The advert, due to launch online and on television on June 4, brings the 'It gets better' anti-bullying campaign to British small screens for the first time, raising awareness of the urgent need to tackle homophobic bullying and inspiring young people.

The ad features contributions from Stonewall supporters including comedian Rhona Cameron and DJ Jodie Harsh as well as Stonewall Youth Co-ordinator Laurie Oliva and Stonewall volunteer Chantal Benjamin-Badjie alongside US stars Lady Gaga, Dan Savage, Kathy Griffin and Adam Lambert. The series of 'It gets better' adverts have been a viral phenomenon in the States.

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Wipeout homophobia On Facebook (WHOF) is celebrating its 1st birthday this week. 

Set up by Kel in response to finding homophobic groups on Facebook, the group has now had over 1,800 pages of homophobic hate removed from facebook and countless thousands of hate speech comments. There are currently 91,200 members in the group supporting the work and looking out for homophobic content on Facebook.

Kel, based in Durham, comments, "During one search for a local gay group I found a lovely little Facebook group called 'All gays must be burned alive' and another called 'Slit a f*ggo+s throat today'. The two groups only had a few members , about 30 or so, but all I could think was what if one of my nephews or nieces found this page and read some of the homophobic hate speech it contains."

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