Stories that often don't get covered by mainstream media

These include stories that involve people of colour, very poor people, or other disadvantaged people. The news editors who choose which stories to run often (consciously or not) run stories that remind themselves of situations in their own (usually quite white a privileged) lives.

Here is a story about a young gay black man in Brooklyn whose dismembered body has been discovered in the subway and in an industrial area. Thanks to towleroad for drawing my attention to it. There are a few more links on towleroad that give more background on the case.

Our lesbian/gay/bi/trans sisters and brothers need as much protection as everyone else, and when we are assaulted or murdered, the stories need to be as prominent as those for the assaults or murders of people of privilege.

Plea for help

Some time ago, I came across a way to add non-livejournal blogs to my friends page. This was wonderful! I did it for one person, and then, a bit later, wanting to add some more non-livejournal friends, found that I'd forgotten how to do it and couldn't lay my hands (electronic ones, of course) on the method.

I'm sure that among my friends is one kind soul who knows how to do this...please, pretty please, could you share the method with me? I'm finding a lot of blogstop blogs that I want to add, but can't do it.

Thank you, thank you, and thank you too!