"Some days, you just have to embrace the absurd." Hal rubs his thumb across Bolaire to make a little mustache 🥸 (C4E23)

Pride events are all ages. It is very likely that you will find men and women wearing booty shorts/bikinis and harnesses or collars at Pride parades, but anything remotely NSFW will take place at 21+ bars and clubs, or 21+ events. Most children at Pride are the children of LGBTQ families or queer and trans themselves.

Folsom, the country's most famous kink/fetish festival is NOT Pride, and is NOT family friendly. They're pretty explicit about this.

You will see a lot of queer PDA at Pride events, and two adults kissing each other isn't NSFW and doesn't make Pride unsafe for children.

New York state law, for instance, is actually pretty chill about toplessness in public, so NYC Pride tends to see a lot of topless folks of all genders frolicking in the fountain at Washington Square Park in the unbearable summer heat. It is one of my very favorite things to do at Pride, it's beautiful and affirming and I fall in love with my community all over again every time.

I bring this up because last year, some photos of this frolicking made their way into culture war spaces, being labeled like "zomg look at these nude women* having a sex bacchanal in a public park in full view of children" but I promise you, there is no sex bacchanal; it's just some people playing in the fountain on a hot day and some of them take their tops off. Everybody's shorts are still on.

Well, except for this coconut I saw last year. Brazen, shameless stuff.