Fun little list of working my local pride event.

For starters, I broke my foot a couple months ago chasing after my kid so I'm not exactly the most helpful person in the world rn. Anyways, I worked our pride group's booth and invited people to join us or donate so that we can do more events like that one in the future. I'm, relatively passing and a lot of people in my day-to-day don't know I'm trans, but yesterday I was decked out in trans colors. Gotta represent ✊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

So some highlights:

• After asking me a ton of questions and me giving her a ton of answers, a like, I dunno 12ish year old girl noticed the trans flag on my person and gasped, asked me if I was 'a transgender' (not like, appreciated but whatever we'll chalk it up to ignorance of the youth) I told her yes, she said she'd never seen 'a transgender' before and was shocked. I told her while chuckling that there were quite a few of us walking around this event right now. Her jaw quite literally dropped.
• I mentioned to some passerby's that my wife was walking around in cosplay. Some of the reactions I got were surprise that she was MY wife, and some were surprised that I had a WIFE. Like, y'all are at a pride event. There's gays here. 💅
• I had quite a few teenagers gush over the fact that the town we're in has so many queers and I passed info about the highschool's GSA to them.
• I was praised for my sociability by our group's president. I am apparently both very talkative and good with the teens (she said I'm at the same maturity level 😑)
• The furries came over to talk to me a lot. Not sure why 🤷‍♀️
• I'm finding that my children had all sorts of adventures at the park while I was working, they're popping up in photos from the event all over the place. Posing with furries, passing out candy, dancing to music, running around with bubbles, helping setup tents (despite being far too short to help). They were referred to as great managers.
• I got to talk to a guy and girl who happened to be walking through as they asked me if there was some sort of gay convention going on.
• I was given the opportunity to explain a BUNCH of queer related trivia to an older lady who seemed hella interested in learning more because her grandkid came out as nonbinary.
• I had the best time being the first openly trans person many parents met as they were there doing their best supporting their lesbian/gay kids. It's fascinating seeing people give the approving 'huh' expression. You know, the "Oh, the rumors are wrong. They seem nice." look.