Red elsewhere on the web A trans/gay/ace British guy in his 40s who is owned by a black void in the shape of a tiny cat. He loves vampires, Clint Barton, Leon Kennedy, Joe & Nicky and many other things that flit through his ADHD-addled brain. He is an avid reader of books and fanficton, especially of the m/m variety. Crafting is his passion, he has a shop on Etsy. Homophobes, transphobes, racists, misogynists and other fine examples of pointlessly hateful cockwombles, please note the exits and vacate the premises.
Extremely correct response, leaving out the inevitable debacle over citizens declaring counterfeit genders in order to have rarer pronoun pins to sell to collectors in the underground pronoun market.
Dibbler, only mildly discouraged, eventually realizes he can sell embellishments for your pronoun pin, which he claims will upgrade your gender.
Also of note is that there are no cops present at Ankh-Morpork Pride. This is not because they aren't welcome (everyone knows Nobby is as kinky as they come), but because the festivities include throwing bricks at the City Watch building and they are busy trying to make sure they still have a place to work the next day. The Night Watch prepares each year with a barricade, and pre-marriage Vimes always collects the good bricks so he can save for a house. Nobody is really sure where the tradition came from, but it's good fun and usually nobody gets hurt too badly.
The bricks are provided by Vetinari, who considers it a good test of city infrastructure and training for the Watch.
Cheery would 100% march in the parade. She'd get Nobby to go with her, but Nobby would be completely oblivious as to why (he assumed she just wants company).
Moist von lipwig would have pride-themed stamps made; these would inevitably have some kind of issue, which would create some outrage and ultimately make the stamps more valuable as collectors' items.
I don't get the impression that Ankh Morpork ever had anti-sodomy or crossdressing laws, so I don't think the queer community's history with the police would be the same as it is in the real world. Especially because Cheery Littlebottom literally started the Dwarf trans/feminism movement as an officer of the Watch, with the Watch's support.
Dibbler would totally sell pride flags with the wrong colors (and then insist it was the "new, updated version" if anyone questioned him)
The nobility are all scandalized, meanwhile the Seamstresses Guild has a float in the parade
Adora Belle Dearheart is deeply involved with at least one queer organization and is one of the main organizers of the Pride festival, but refuses to answer any questions about why
Ridcully decides the wizards should be involved, and Ponder Stibbons should make a float and organize the refreshments for them to eat while riding on the float. Ridcully's concept of allyship is loudly saying, "Well done, that man!" and pointing at anyone he thinks is exhibiting particularly queer behavior.
Madam Sharn and Pepe release a whole new line of Pride-themed chainmail
Bengo Macarona is embraced as a gay icon
Reg Shoe decides the main pride event is too corporate, and organizes an alternative pride parade for the same time and place; this immediately gets subsumed by the main pride event. Some Omnians show up to Pride to protest and Reg is delighted to have someone to fight with.
I have an Etsy shop, and I sell badges that are designed as a giant Fuck You to JKR, because I fucking hate the bigoted wizard lady.
A few years back, it became obvious that she'd descended into a deep pit of transphobic bigotry and she was was determined to tunnel even deeper. There was I, left with a pile of Harry Potter books that I didn't want to own. I was going to chuck them in the recycling, but then I had An Idea.
I would repurpose them into something She Who Must Not Be Named would hate, that would give trans people and allies a giggle, and cause a random transphobe to spontaneously combust. I printed the trans flag and pro-trans statements on the pages, slapped them in my badge machine, and the Trans Harry Potter badges were born.
If you want one, there's 15% off on my whole Etsy shop for Pride Month. I don't currently ship to the USA via Etsy because President Fart fucked shit up and it's a headache when you're a hobbyist and not a business. If you're interested, message me on here and we'll work something out to bypass the bullshit.
I am now going to be a grumpy old queer and splat some words out about a few things that I feel very strongly about, and frankly anyone who is a decent human bean should, too. Except for number 3, because I respect other people's trauma. I will die on the hill of number 4, though.
1) LGB[insert your letter here] with the T. 🏳️⚧️ No exceptions. There should be no pride in being a bigot. None. Trans people have been in the fight from the beginning, and are at the front lines right now. They start taking trans rights, and then they come for the L, the G and the B , and then women, and then everyone who is different in any way from the hetero-normative, white, cis male 'ideal' (barf), and then we're all up shit creek and they've taken the fucking paddle. Solidarity is the only way to fight this. So buck your shit up, be a good ally, and support trans rights.
2) Don't tell people what the fuck they should be identifying as. Yes, I'm referring to the Bisexual vs Pansexual bullshit (but it applies across the board with all genders and sexualities). Implying bisexuality means you only like people based on a binary of sex traits is biphobic as fuck. Many bisexuals love people for who they are on the inside, and gender does not matter to them, same as pansexuals. Bisexual people absolutely can and do love trans people. I know trans people who identify as bisexual in relationships with both cis and trans people who also identify as bisexual. Bisexual is not a rigid binary, it has always been flexible. If you're more comfortable identifying as pansexual, then that's great! Just don't shit on bisexual people because they feel feel more comfortable identifying as bisexual, and you're making giant fucking (awful) assumptions about people based on your assumptions about bisexuality. Also, the bisexual flag is the best flag, it's okay for us all to admit we're jealous. No one would want to give that magnificence up.
3) I identify as queer, and it is important to me. I know there's controversy and plenty of people don't like it, but I am in the reclaim camp. However, if you've been harmed by it (especially the older generations, because it was, and still can be, a slur), then I'll respect that and not use it in your space. I won't even try and say that you should just get over it because the world is shitty and that's not how trauma works (and anyone who does say that is callous and needs a recalibratory slap upside the head). I won't even be offended if you block me over it, you gotta take care of your noggin, right? But in my own space? I'm queer and proud. It is what I am comfortable with, it's the best way to explain my everything. I'm trans masc, he/him, probably non-binary (I just had the wrong body, I don't care about gender), gay, asexual, aegosexual, homoromantic, and more (because I will throw my ADHD and my probable autism in there, too). What better way to express all of that about me than queer? Also, I just love it as a word.
4) Leon S. Kennedy and Christopher Redfield are married. I will be taking no questions. Make it canon, Capcom, you cowards.
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