I’d read about this elsewhere and was saddened, but your use of “silence” and “calm” is palpable. Here in the US it is perhaps less quiet, but I fear no less for my LGBT friends. We’ve made great strides in supporting them on a national level — indeed, across the first world — but as is generally the case with forward movement, there is painful backlash. Indeed, the pace of change (dare I say progress?) in so many areas is so swift these days that the response from fundamentalists / traditionalists / evangelicals / etc. is more violent and deadly than ever.