Post-Pride
Jun. 30th, 2024 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daemonlunaI love you, excited teens in flag capes, and kids on roller blades with pride flags taped to their bike helmets who first came to Pride in strollers, and mountain of a guy with the Free Dad Hugs t-shirt and two toddlers.
I love you, gossiping university students in crocheted halter tops and beaded earrings, butches in tank tops and baseball caps, and queens in spiked boots complaining about heat but wearing the sequined gloves and gown regardless, kid in the fur mask and spiked collar with their mom hovering protectively, my co-worker's child in the t-shirt from their elementary school with the logo in rainbow pride colours, shy teen whose face lit up when they found a button with the right pronouns.
I love you, grandma with the t-shirt that said "be gentle, it's my first Pride," elderly gay man who says with unshakeable confidence that he and his friends put up up rainbow decorations at their seniors' lodge and it drives everyone else NUTS, person with nonbinary flag coloured streamers tied to their walker, moms trading an exhausted preschooler back and forth, friends reuniting and wishing each other "Happy Pride."
And every year, EVERY year, it's the kids in the flag capes with their giddy joy and bright faces that get me right in the heart, and I want this for each and every one of them, and I want it all year and everywhere.
I love you, gossiping university students in crocheted halter tops and beaded earrings, butches in tank tops and baseball caps, and queens in spiked boots complaining about heat but wearing the sequined gloves and gown regardless, kid in the fur mask and spiked collar with their mom hovering protectively, my co-worker's child in the t-shirt from their elementary school with the logo in rainbow pride colours, shy teen whose face lit up when they found a button with the right pronouns.
I love you, grandma with the t-shirt that said "be gentle, it's my first Pride," elderly gay man who says with unshakeable confidence that he and his friends put up up rainbow decorations at their seniors' lodge and it drives everyone else NUTS, person with nonbinary flag coloured streamers tied to their walker, moms trading an exhausted preschooler back and forth, friends reuniting and wishing each other "Happy Pride."
And every year, EVERY year, it's the kids in the flag capes with their giddy joy and bright faces that get me right in the heart, and I want this for each and every one of them, and I want it all year and everywhere.
