donation to the Russian LGBT network

[redbird]

As denise suggested at the beginning of this Dreamwidth news post, I have donated to the Russian LGBT Network, to help gay men who are being detained and tortured in Chechnya. That link is for donations from inside Russia; those of us in the rest of the world can donate via All Out.

Specifically, this is what I have done with the $20 that I won't be spending for another year of paid LiveJournal time; I had already decided it should go to some LGBT cause, and this one seemed particularly appropriate.

Yes, I am cross-posting this entry to LJ. Right now, posts on LGBT and other political topics are most likely to be cross-posted, along with DW and LJ meta. If that gets this account removed, so be it.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

Icon love!

(And when, if ever, I have spare money, I'll send a check.)

[redbird]

Thanks. I picked the icon up from someone random on LJ years ago; if you want to use it, help yourself.

[onyxlynx]

Thanks!

[conuly]

Were the last two paragraphs supposed to be a link? If so, it doesn't work.

[redbird]

Thanks for catching that; I made one of the annoying HTML typos, leaving the / off a </a> tag. (And that in turn probably comes from hand-typing everything instead of using any sort of formatting editor. What can I say, I'm old.)

[erik]

I always hand-type the html because the auto-format editors sucked when they first started appearing. And I keep doing it because I've seen too many professional pages with all but the last letter or two of a word linked, or bolded, or whatever, because some sloppy person failed to select the whole word when they were applying the markup.

(Also, I don't know if this has been deprecated, but in the early days of html, bold and italic tags were actually deprecated in favor of <em> and <strong>, bcause they made more sense for screenreaders.)

[minoanmiss]

Thank ou for this information, a lot.