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Tue Jun 25, 2019, 04:04 PM Jun 2019

GoFundMe shuts down Israel Folau's homophobic $3 million fundraiser

GoFundMe just deleted the campaign of Israel Folau because the crowdfunding website doesn’t like helping homophobic jerks raise money on their platform. Imagine that.

Is GoFundMe single? Because we wanna marry it.

The former Australian rugby player had reportedly raised $485,234.99 of his $3 million campaign before it was shut down. He had launched the campaign to help pay for his lawsuit against Rugby Australia after the sports authority fired him for making homophobic posts on social media.


After it terminated his four-year $5 million contract with the New South Wales Waratahs team, Folau published a video (below) in which he explained why he needed strangers to give him $3 million to sue his former bosses despite his already being a millionaire.

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