Being a part of the LGBT+ community is a beautiful experience on the whole. Even online spaces can sometimes be a great place to connect and learn from each other.
But on the ground, in our day-to-day lives, it can be a different story entirely. To say that LGBT+ people, wherever they may place themselves on the initialism, are completely safe and should act like it, is a bold and simply false statement. To piece together just a fraction of the evidence, I used a pretty common resource. The internet.