Hello again friends. Queued posts will continue as normal, but I’d like to just make a quick post about the situation in Orlando.
But incorrectnhlquotes, you’re thinking, there’s no teams in Orlando? Why is this relevant with hockey at all?
I personally live in Orlando. I personally am apart of the LGBT community in Orlando. I personally know a good number of people that were shot and killed last night. As such, I’m using this platform to spread awareness of how you can help my friends, and how you can help everyone else that was affected by this tragedy. I promise that after this post, I won’t post any more ‘personal’ posts or bother you with anything other than really poorly executed quotes-- but these are my friends, these are people I know and I love and I want to help them as much as possible.
Below are links and ways you can support:
- if in the Central Florida region, donate blood in the coming week. They are currently asking for O-, O+, and AB bloodtypes, and while there’s been an outpouring of support this morning, they will need continued support throughout the week. To look up blood buses and locations near you, please click here. (NOTE: bloodbanks in Orlando are at capacity as of 1:30 PM. They ask that you continue to donate later in the week.)
- if you cannot donate blood, consider donating water, juice, snacks, or other supplies to OneBlood or other blood donation locations. With over 600+ people donating blood today alone, locations were running out of food items to give donors.
- if not close enough to donate blood, consider donating money. Equality Florida has set up a gofundme for those affected, and you can find that here.
- contacting your legislators/govt officials. Whether you contact about gun legislation, anti-LGBT legislation, or anything else, a continued effort to hold govt officials accountable helps immensely. I’m not going to advocate one over the other or make any stances save that anti-LGBT legislation is garbage, so call about what matters to you.
- keep your friends safe, keep yourself safe, spread the word, make sure nobody forgets that we as a community will always be here, no matter how many of us you gun down.
Thank you so much for any help you can give. Please know that these upcoming weeks will be very hectic for myself and those I know, so all submitted quotes during that time might sit for a few days before being added to the queue.
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