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."

WHOF has become a huge gathering of LGBT support from all over the world. The site has a lot of "straight" supporters who learn a lot about it too. This is community engagement, resource sharing, discussion, encouragement, on a global scale.

Kevin adds, "The work WHOF does could not be achieved without the admin team. They help anyone who needs it, they have a wealth of experience and are more than willing to share it. The most important part of WHOF is the membership, those people who click to report, share stories and help to build community spirit, they are what really matters. Long may it continue."

http://www.facebook.com/WHOF1 < Click here to join WHOF (Wipeout Homophobia On Facebook)

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