Whole community's in mourning today. Spent a few hours with my LGBT+ group talking to people on campus today about it. Main goal was raising awareness, I didn't really realise quite how little awareness there was. The few people who really listened thought of it as a terrible event, some thought the 'small' numbers meant that it wasn't that important, especially so close to Remembrance Sunday. It's prompted me to go and do more awareness campaigns this year, so that next year hopefully there'll be less reason to reach out for support and more people in the community to turn to. Today of all days I'd rather just be close to my friends.
It will be a great day when the US elects a transgender politician to a major office. It seems political acceptance is a good bellwether for the direction popular sentiment is heading. There is no doubt that there will always be haters and bigots, but I'd like to think we are heading towards acceptance, though not quickly enough.