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."

"Of course the most important part of WHOF is the membership, those lovely people who click on the report button, send us stories and articles and help us to build a real community spirit, they are what really matters."

Find out more by visiting www.facebook.com/WHOF1

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