During a search for a page on facebook, 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, as hate speech is 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.
Stop-Homophobia has become a huge gathering of LGBT support from all over the world. We educate each other. We have a lot of "straight" supporters who learn a lot about us too. This is community engagement, resource sharing, discussion, encouragement, on a global scale.
The most important part of Stop-Homophobia is the membership, those people who click to report, share stories and help to build community spirit, they are what really matters.
