#/j but its still wild to me how pride will gather people youve never seen in your life even when its the middle of nowhere

[redstonedust]

one of the most fascinating aspects of pride events is the fact that like. okay. idk if this is universal but personally i live in a rural area where on an average day outside you will encounter 60% old white women with little dogs, 30% middle class families with toddlers who wanted to settle down in the countryside and maybe the occasional extremely british teenage boy.

yet without fail, every pride, the event is STACKED with the most visibly queer people youve seen in your life. entire goth friend groups covered in pride patches. gay and lesbian couples carrying their kids on their shoulders. middle aged drag queens and balding men in leather sharing a smoke in the corner. multiple visably disabled teens hanging every flag possible off the back of their wheelchairs. etc.

and every single time without fail i cant help standing in the middle of it and going who are you people. where did you come from. this is surely not my local demographic. what is going on. i feel like i tripped through a wormhole into a major city with like. actual people in it.

sure the logical explanation is that they all keep to themselves on a normal day and are dressing up for pride, but im choosing to believe in the conspiracy theory that every pride event contains a secret portral in one of the untouched porta-potties that summons people from the gay dimension to scare conservative debbie who's busy glaring out of her balcony window at the event. you cant fool me. i know your secrets. and i WILL find a way in.

#/j but its still wild to me how pride will gather people youve never seen in your life even when its the middle of nowhere #some of them arent even white. thats a miracle where i live /lh