Organizers of the 25th Day of Silence hope to achieve the biggest online gathering of LGBT+ youth in history this evening. The annual student-led event protests the silencing and erasure of young LGBT+ people.
Last year, nearly 8,000 ‘GSA’ groups – LGBT+ and ally groups in US schools – took part. This year, organizers have taken the event online.
And they are expecting the virtual rally when they ‘break the silence’ to be massive. For the last quarter century, students have marked the event by