sign o' the times

The scene: drinks with co-workers & a few significant others after an all hands meeting. I had steered the conversation to matters queer, as I do so often. Co-worker B's girlfriend L, who can't be a day over 28, expressed surprise that violence against queers happens.

Me: Oh, yeah. Queer bashing is a thing. I have a friend up in Vancouver who's walking around with a reconstructed face.
L: O.O

On the one hand, it's good that violence against queers is becoming rare infrequent and socially unacceptable enough that some straights don't know it's going on. On the other, it's still a goddamn problem, especially for trans people, and it disturbs me to find out straights might be starting to think that everything's hunky dory.