Saturday marks the first day of pride month (my favorite month), so it’s only right I use my very intelligent brain to formulate a list of activities to inspire you to be extra gay this month. Plus, they’re a bit more interesting than “go to pride,” although that will be the first option on this list because come on, that’s part of the point. But maybe pride isn’t your thing, or you’re not at a place in your life where pride is something you can, or even want, to do. So, these are smaller things you can do to celebrate your pride.

Existence is protest! Happy pride!

1. Go to Pride

Duh. Now listen, you don’t even have to go to a big city pride event. You could go to a small city block party instead! 

2. Make Friendship Bracelets

Make bracelets in the colors of your pride flag, or your friends flags! They could be traditional knotted string bracelets, made with beads, or both! 

3. Make a Pride Playlist

Curate a playlist of all your favorite gay songs, or listen to mine! 

4. Have a Dance Party to Your Pride Playlist 

5. Decorate Clothes for Pride 

You could paint rainbows on your pants, embroider a flag on a jean jacket, or bedazzle a cowboy hat! 

6. Do Drag Makeup

Drag makeup will instantly make you cooler and hotter. 

7. Go to a Drag Show

Maybe you’re not that into makeup, so you could watch people in drag makeup instead! Plus, you’d be supporting your local queer community.

8. Make Gay Cards

Make pride cards for your gay friends, or make posters and deliver them to all the gay people you know. This could be a whole adventure. You could surprise your friends, or gather them all up and make it a group activity. Go to the craft store, get supplies, decorate all day! 

9. Add Your Pronouns to Your Social Media Bios 

10. Bake a Rainbow Cake 

Or bake a cake in the colors of your pride flag!

11. Watch a Gay Movie 

Paris is Burning, But I’m a Cheerleader, The Life and Death of Marsha P. Johnson, the options are endless. It could be a fun movie, or a documentary and you could study up on your queer history. Get a blanket, make some popcorn, cozy up, and be gay!

12. Have a Pride Picnic 

Gather your friends and put each person in charge of bringing a food the color of the rainbow, or, bake your pride cake together and eat it at the park!

13. Write a Short Story About a Little Gay Person 

I do this all the time anyway, but if you’re not an English major blog owner like me, this could be a fun challenge!

14. Host a Talent Show 

Gather all your gay friends and make them perform their unique talents. Or, if your only talent is being gay, lips sync for your life! 

15. Dress up as Your Favorite Gay Icon

You’ll catch me as Chappell Roan. 

16. Have a Slideshow Night 

Recently my friends and I have done slideshow nights discussing our types, and assigning songs to each other. Next, we’re describing our gender as objects, so you could really do anything! 

17. Tie Dye Clothes

18. Embroider Clothes 

Or you could crochet, sew, do something crafty! 

19. Make Earrings Out of Clay

Take another trip to the craft store for earring posts and clay, and create fun little shapes. There’s nothing gay people love more than funky earrings. 

20. Give me $20

If you’re an ally, it’s mandatory to give all your gay friends money. I don’t make the rules. Or, if you can’t spare any change, you can read my blog and send it to your friends. 

21. Donate 

Okay, I’ll make this list have 21 ideas since the last one was kind of a fake. A super easy way to support the queer community is by donating. You could donate to small local organizations near you, or you could donate to The Trevor Project or other larger LGBTQIA+ organizations. 

Okay. That’s all. Have a lovely pride month. I can’t believe we get to be gay for thirty days. 

In honor of pride month (the best month of the year) I thought it would only be fitting to enlighten my hetero readers and laugh with my queer ones on things that are just honest and true aspects of gay culture. 

Here’s a mandatory disclaimer: obviously there’s no one way to look or be or act queer…this list is simply things that a lot of the members of the queer community relate to and find funny/relatable/true for themselves and their friends in the community. If these are relatable to you, yay! And if they’re not, that doesn’t make your identity any less valid. 

The following is a list of things that I, a queer, Gen Z, asexual, agree are 100% a part of gay culture: 

1. Tattoos

Specifically left and right hand tattoos as well as any and all tarot card tats. 

2. Trader Joe’s

Trader Joe’s is for every type of gay. The vegans. The vegetarians. And the gays with stomach issues who need dairy free or gluten free products. 

3. Oat Milk

The gays love saving the planet, and oat milk is the most environmentally friendly milk, and is claimed to be the creamiest. (I personally think soy and cashew are the creamiest but that’s another conversation). 

4. Dyed Hair, Piercings, and Unconventional Haircuts

This is just like the tattoo thing, anything that will set your appearance apart from the norm is inherently queer in a gay way and a different/odd/other definition of queer way. Having fashion colored hair, lots of piercings (especially lots of face piercings and nose rings), and haircuts that scream androgyny or shaggy/skater boy/mullet are so queer. 

5. Cuffed Jeans

If you’re queer you cuff your jeans. End of discussion. 

6. High Top Converse

Low rise Converse are for straight people and high top are for the gays. I don’t exactly know why, but probably because high tops are cooler and they cover your exposed ankle after cuffing your jeans. 

7. Walking Fast

Gay people walk fast. It’s in our blood and gives us less time to be hate crimed! 

8. Brunch 

Gays either love or passionately hate brunch. I am a gay who loves brunch. If someone was walking fast for no apparent reason I might say “Wow! They’re walking faster than a gay late for brunch!” (I’m dead serious this is in my vocabulary and gays also are always on time if not early). 

9. Being Good at Everything 

Now. No one is good at everything (besides me). But gay people have nothing if not the audacity to tell themselves they can do anything. Painting a house? Sure. Building a table? Easy. Running for mayor? I’m gay, aren’t I? 

10. Theatre 

Gays love a performance. They love the theater. Drag. Drama. Camp. Glitz and glitter. We love a theme. We love an event. 

Plus, are you really queer if you didn’t do theater in high school or love your English teacher? 

11. Being Incredibly Indecisive 

Gay people cannot make decisions. Ask a group of gays where you want to go for lunch and you’ll never go anywhere. Plus, think of all the bisexual, pansexual, agender, and non-binary people out there. They don’t even have to choose their gender or who to date! You think a genderfluid pansexual is going to make a choice? Think again. 

12. Grandmother Hobbies 

Ask a gay how old they are and they’ll tell you. Ask a gay how old they mentally are and they’ll say 75. Gays love hobbies that your grandmother would do at the retirement home. This includes, but is not limited to; crocheting, knitting, baking, sewing, gardening, and jewelry making. 

13. Having Very Niche Collections 

Very niche interests is a queer thing, and a neuro-divergent thing as well, since a lot of members of the LGBTQIA+ community are also nuero-divergent! This could include, but is not limited to collecting crystals, plants, records, stuffed animals, and figurines (of cats, frogs, or dragons).

14. Thrifting 

With the way oat milk is being charged at coffee shops in this economy you better believe the gays are thrifting and saving their money buying second hand clothes. We gotta save money for our $8 oat milk matcha lattes and hair dye. Plus, it’s environmentally friendly and you can find unique pieces or customize things yourself! 

15. Vegetarian or Veganism

This one goes hand in hand with the oat milk saving-the-environment and gays-have-stomach-issues thing. I know a lot of vegetarian and vegan people, and I’m pretty sure all of them are queer. 

16. Layering Clothes 

Tank top. T-shirt. Long sleeves. Pants. Belt. Funky socks. Jewelry. Hair clips. It’s a difficult time for the gays in summer when they can’t wear twenty pieces of clothing. Once again it’s for the aesthetic. It’s camp. 

17. Rings and Funky Earrings 

This goes hand in hand with the layering clothes because gays love accessories. Want to tell if someone’s gay? Check to see if they have a ton of rings (especially thumb rings) and/or hand tats.

18. Having Gay Friends 

The only unrealistic thing about movies starring LGBTQIA+ people in the 21st century is that they have straight friends. Gay people have gay friends. Somehow you all started out straight in middle school but slowly came out. The gays subconsciously find each other. 

19. Tumblr 

Tumblr is for the niche topic gays as well as the emo ones. Additionally, the gays love other websites where one can post memes and other things – to me this has the same energy as Pinterest and fan accounts on Insta.

20. Eyeliner 

If a gay person could only choose one makeup product it would be eyeliner. So many colors. So many shapes. It adds so much to a look and it truly looks good on everyone. 

Here’s a list of the ones I relate to: 

Tattoos, Trader Joe’s, oat milk, dyed hair, cuffed jeans, high top Converse, beng good at everything (duh), being indecisive, having grandmother hobbies, having niche collections (nail polish), being vegetarian, wearing rings and funky earrings, having gay friends, and loving eyeliner. 

I also somewhat relate to walking fats, brunch, theater, thrifting, and layering clothes. However I don’t walk incredibly fast, feel very passionately about brunch (although I enjoy it), I didn’t do theater (but I loved all my English teachers), I only thrift occasionally, and I don’t layer my clothes too heavily. 

The only thing on this list that doesn’t apply to me is Tumblr. I was never an emo Tumblr kid back in like 2012 or whenever. 

Okay that’s all. I hope you found this educational and so so funny as always. Happy pride month!!! Yay gay!!