Brandon Hoffman, a 17-year-old senior at Owings Mills High School, has been disturbed by the number of times he hears anti-gay slurs in his school and wanted to do something to raise awareness about how offensive those terms are to many people. He believes athletes are more prone to this kind of bad behavior. (He runs cross country, wrestles and plays tennis.) So he and other athletes at the school will be holding a No Homo Day at Owings Mills on Friday, Jan. 14. They are making posters, plan to show a short video, and are asking other students to pledge not to use slurs that day. "Every day you should be abstaining from using these hurtful slurs," he said, but he wanted to designate a day so that other students would think twice. What he didn't expect was the outpouring of support on Facebook. Today, there are over 12,000 people around the world who are making the pledge.