Think terms such as “fag” and “that’s so gay” are not being commonly used anymore? Think again.

In fact, a recent study by GLSEN, the leading national education organization focused on ensuring safe schools for all students, found that over half of students reported hearing homophobic remarks often—8 out of 10 LGBT students reported being verbally harassed at school in the last year.

We’ve just released a fascinating Twitter tracker that keeps real-time statistics on the number of times anti-gay slurs are used each day on Twitter. Together we can bring this count down to zero.

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