Hollywood and Wolfman have gone to every single pride parade since they got together at the start of the 80s and didn't care about the consequences.
All they cared about is that for one glorious day they could show their love for each other freely and stop living in fear of a court martial.
Ice went to his first Pride a couple of years after DADT was repelled.
He loved it and for the first time in his entire life he felt free to be himself.
He brought so many Pride things including tshirts, enamel pins, flags and even a poster displaying the gay man flag.
Hollywood and Wolfman wanted to make fun of him but Ice couldn't stop smiling and was completely overjoyed about being free that they just couldn't bring themselves to do it.
Maverick went to his first Pride the year after Ice due to conflicting schedules and much to everyone's surprise Maverick was really shy and didn't really know what to do with himself.
Maverick gained a bit of confidence when Ice surprised him with a bisexual flag pin and put it on his jacket but he still didn't really feel like he fit in, especially since most of the crowd was young and he was in his late 50s.
It was only when a 22 year old male came up to them and said that he is also a pilot in The Navy and the fact they made it is inspirational and gives him hope that he will too, did Mav really start to feel like he belonged.
Said 22 year old male was actually Jake Seresin who wanted to tell Ice and Maverick while he had the chance, not knowing that in the future they'd become his father in-laws.
Slider joined Ice, Mav, Hollywood and Wolfman the year after for 'moral support' and started loudly telling 'inspiring' stories from his friends relationships.
He told the story of the time where Wolf didn't look who was entering his office and said 'this gives me a hard on, Wood wanna do something' to Viper, when Hollywood stared at Wolf for a full 2 minutes straight and didn't hear Jester yelling at him, when Ice and Mav became 'wingmen' and of course the story of the Ice's bite in the locker room.
The story of Ice's bite in the locker room was so popular that was a rotation of people coming to listen.
After the 3rd retelling and the 3rd amount of harassment Ice had suffered for his 'desperation' Ice covered his best friend's mouth and dragged him away from the parade before he could reveal anything else (like his poetry book.)
Phoenix, Halo, Rooster, Hangman, and Bob all went to Pride together and wore handmade shirts from Coyote.
Natasha and Callie's shirts had a picture of a Phoenix and a halo in the Lesbian flag colours.
Bradley and Jake's had a picture of a Rooster in the bisexual flag colours and a cowboy hat in the gay man flag colours (Jake also managed to write 'my boyfriend is better than me' on the back of Bradley's shirt in permanent marker)
Bob wore a shirt that had a pictures of all the flags and had two pins on his jacket of the transgender and autistic flags.
Coyote also brought a speaker and started loudly playing 'In the Navy' by The Village People whenever they walked somewhere.
Halo proposed to Phoenix at San Diego Pride.
