Today is the National Day of Silence. Girls' Life will be joining thousands of schools, organizations and individuals across the country to call attention to the continual silence forced upon LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people. For longer than we can remember, those society considers to be different have been shut out, mocked, bullied, discriminated against, minimized and marginalized. In a word, silenced. But no longer. We're taking a stand. How, you ask? We're going dark.