Hey freshman

Pride parade

(In honor of the beginning of pride month 😌💅)

Y/n-
"Do we have glue that won't peel up the paint on my jeep?" I asked my mom. I was putting a pride flag on the hood of my car. Anna wanted to go to pride so I thought I'd gay out my jeep and bring her to a parade. The parade is in Detroit so we have to drive there though. I started decorating my car pretty early and it's now noon. Anna just got here and she's watching me.

"Why not just tape it down or like tie it with a flag pole on the back?" My mom asked. I looked at the jeep and started contemplating it. I nodded.

"Yea that's probably better" I said. I went into the garage and started looking for some kind of pole I can tie the flag to. I finally found it and started looking for rope.

"It's over there" Anna said pointing to a spot in the garage. I nodded and went over to grab it.

"Thanks love" I kissed her head and went back to the jeep. I stuck the flag pole in a little opening I found and started tying the flag around it with rope. Once I finish attaching the flag to the pole I wrapped the rope around the crash guard on the jeep. I shook it around a bit to make sure it was secure. It was. "Ok now are we doing the bi one for you too or just the rainbow one?" I asked looking down at Anna.

"I think the rainbow one is good" she said. I nodded and pulled her into a kiss.

"Ok well let's hit the road we got about a 50 minute ride ahead of us" I said. She nodded and got in the car. I ran in the house and upstairs, grabbing us each a pride pin and a flag that I bought a few days ago, knowing pride was coming up. I ran out of the house and said bye to my mom. I checked the flag one more time and then we hit the road. We blasted Sweater Weather and girl in red the whole ride.

Anna-
Me and y/n made it to the parade. We saw beautiful girls and guys dressed in rainbows, crop tops, suits, and dresses. There was some cops around but they weren't preventing us from having fun. There was big floats with drag queens dancing on them. There was people marching with big rainbow pride flags. There was people standing in the back of trucks holding big confetti canons shooting rainbow confetti into the crowd. There was music blasting and people dancing. The vibes were immaculate. Me and y/n went and stood up front in an empty space in the crowd. Y/n had brought extra pride flags for us. A bi- pride flag for me and a rainbow one for her. She wrapped mine around my shoulders and stood behind me then wrapping us both in her rainbow one. She pulled out her phone and picked up my chin for a kiss. I smiled and proudly kissed her as she took a picture. People were cheering and singing around us. People had their dogs dressed in rainbow and it was adorable.

There was star wars floats that came by in the middle of the parade, the stormtroopers had rainbow helmets and little rainbow fan things. Everyone was constantly waving they're pride flags. We talked to a few trans people, learning they're journey and hearing they're story of how they found out they were trans. We got our faces painted with them, getting rainbow flags on our cheeks. We ate some foot from one of the restaurants at the plaza, where the parade was being held. We met some people from TikTok that are very well known. We made some friends and overall just had an amazing time.

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For everyone that hasn't come out yet, take your time. There's no need to rush the process of telling people. Coming out is a very special and relieving thing. I personally have been out to my parents a year today and I'm so glad that they are supportive. If you are scared of coming out to your parents because you have a feeling or know they are homophobic then just know no matter what your feelings are valid. You have a right as a human being to love who you want to love. I think homophobic is the stupidest thing you can be. Like wtf is so scary about me kissing a girl- like bestie can you blame me they're hot.

Anyways if you have the opportunity you should go to a pride parade. I live in a small ass honky tonk town where like 90% of the population is homophobic. But yea I've seen parades on TikTok and they look really fun, and if you do go be safe. And also even though COVID restrictions are being dropped little by little, be safe and wash your hands, bring hand sanitizer, get vaccinated I don't know do something so you don't get covid we can't afford to lose you in this fucked up world 😩

Happy pride bestiessss
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