🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Pride Month at PTMC 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Some hcs centered around pride month. I know I missed some characters, feel free to add your own hcs to the mix.
It starts with Emma who waltzes into the ED on June 1st with that big almost child-like smile of hers and a pride flag pinned to her backpack.
She’s gotten into a habit of leaving her backpack with Dana and the attendings’ things in central command. The pin sits there, mostly unnoticed, but a from time to time a patient or coworker will comment on it. Emma, bless her, smiles and tells them about her grandmother who actually came out of the closet in her late 50s.
Trinity starts a running joke that asking her to do anything she doesn’t want to do during Pride is homophobic. She tries it on Baran who lets the joke fly right past her. She immediately takes it to heart and pulls Trinity aside to ask her what gave Trinity that impression. Trinity has to immediately retract what she said and apologize because the look in her attendings’ eye is so earnest.
When she tries the joke out on Robby, “Don’t be so homophobic old man,” he just rolls his eyes and pulls up his pant leg, revealing his bi pride themed socks. “Don’t be so biphobic little girl.” He throws back. Uno Reverse.
Mel gets an emergency call from her sister who has been invited to a Pride parade. “But I do not know if I can go considering I’m a heterosexual Mel,”
Mel asks Parker for her take about the situation. Parker who looks at Mel like she’s grown another head. Because of course, “Allies are always welcome at Pride. Have you never been to one?” This is how Parker ends up inviting Mel and Becca to go with her and Shen this year.
Baran buys the ED a cake in the 28th to celebrate and commemorate the anniversary of Stonewall. Its a vanilla with a butter creme frosting and a pastel rainbow design. She has everyone swear to not tell any other floors or HR. Self expression isn’t exactly encouraged in the ED.
During the month of June, Shen likes to reprise his role as Moana Shenanigans, his drag persona. Most of the ED is unaware of his extracurricular activities, except for Jack Abbott who caught him doing a show one afternoon and was immediately sworn to silence. Now when they talk about her, anyone listening in just wonders why in the world Shen would call his sister “Moanica” when he mentions her.
Speaking of the people upstairs, not all of them are happy with Emma’s pin. Clark the Shark is one such attending, and unsurprisingly Gloria makes a trip downstairs to see what the hullabaloo is all about.
Gloria asks Dana about it who shrugs but also tells her it hasn’t been a problem with a single patient, but that Gloria should just let it go since it’s Emma who doesn’t have an offensive bone in her body.
When Gloria sees the backpack, and then sees nurse Emma wearing the backpack on her way out the ED, she calls the young nurse to talk with her. Within seconds Emma’s positivity and girl-scout energy stun locks Gloria. She didn’t know people as sweet and innocent like Emma still existed, and then she conveniently forgets to ask to remove the pin at all.
When Trinity asks Dana what she’s doing for pride it’s mostly in jest, so she’s surprised when she has an answer. “I’m getting dinner with my son,” she tells her. Dana and her son have an estranged relationship sure, but it was never about his sexuality and they both knew that. Every June they attempt to get dinner together somewhere.
Trinity hosts movie nights at her apartment and forces Victoria and Whitaker to watch wlw movies with her. Every week the movie changes. She shows them DEBS one week after a long shift when they could use a laugh. She plays Imagine Me & You at the beginning of a long weekend, and she even gets them to watch the Itty Bitty Titty Comittee when she’s curious about what Victoria’s reaction will be to the penis rocket at the end of the movie.
She mostly chooses these movies because they’re all without nudity. She hates watching sex scenes around Whitaker. He always goes all red and has to cover his face. Its so awkward. “But they didn’t consent Trinity.”
Victoria plays it off like she’s never seen any wlw movies to Trinity because she’s never really acknowledged her own sexuality out loud. On the outside she’s straight passing but sometimes it was hard not to let it slip. But not even her family knows, and she does still like guys so she lets them keep thinking she’s completely straight. She knows she’s at least bisexual, she saw the Half of It once during COVID and it changed her life.
Abbott casually mentions to Baran (who was not at all asking for this information) about a relationship he had with another man in medical school. It never really went anywhere he says, but he sees the appeal.
Baran is.. well Baran is conflicted. She’s a woman who wears many hats, sometimes shes an attending, sometimes she’s a mother, and sometimes she’s an ex-wife. An ex-wife who thought for the first 30-40 years of her life that she was completely straight.
For a long time she felt a lot of needless guilt, as if she had kept a secret from herself and hadn’t been honest. The divorce gave her time to process these thoughts and feelings.
She isn’t inexperienced by any means, she’s been divorced for well over three years now, but she is still new at this dating women thing.
McKay has it made for Pride. Working with the street crew has given her the opportunity to work as medic staff alongside the parade. She’s manned the tent for the past 5 years. She stands at the side of the road under a tent as the parade passes by and hands out cold waters to the dancers and strippers hired to be on the floats. Sometimes she has to treat a case of heat exhaustion, dehydration, or the occasional alcohol poisoning, but its worth it to be able to ogle the hot men passing by.
Victoria hears about this first and passes along the information to Whitaker and Trinity. They basically invite themselves and McKay regrets giving away her secrets. Nonetheless they all have a blast.
Speaking of Whitaker and Trinity, they consider hosting a pride party at their apartment. The place is way too small for it and their landlord is a grumpy old man, so they try to relocate it to Garcia’s instead.
Garcia agrees but has a bunch of stipulations on keeping the house clean and includes not being responsible for the set up or the clean up after.
So instead Trinity floats the idea past Baran who surprisingly agrees to host at her house. She also promptly invites the entire ED with an e-vite via an email with several crudely cropped pride gifs. (Again she’s a little insane)
The party goes well, if not a little tame because of the venue. Baran seems to love having company at the house and catered themed food for the party. The best part of the night is definitely the visit the guests get from Moanica Shenanigans complete with a round of karaoke that sets off Trinity and Mel to do a group rendition of Abracadabra by Lady Gaga that is both too aggressive and too raspy to stay in key.
