Summary: Gabriel finds themself the victim of discrimination while at Pride but a man he doesn’t know stands up for them and calls out his friend’s toxic behavior. Turns out that’s the just start of it all.
Pairing: Sabriel (cisgender Sam x nonbinary Gabriel)
Rating: teen and up
Warnings: blatant transphobia/nonbinaryphobia and discrimination, some curse words, hurt/comfort, angsty start with a happy middle and ending, explicit mentions of sex but no mentions/depictions of explicit sex (if you don’t want to read that, stop before the time jump)
Word Count: 1239
A/N: This is my entry for the June @gabriel-monthly-challenge. I loosely used both aesthetic prompts for inspiration. I also didn’t go straight for one of the Pride story prompts but took inspiration from the spirit of them, writing a fic set at Pride. I was also inspired by two short text posts I saw floating around on tumblr – a couple people reblogged them – that I could just hear Gabriel saying as I read them. I was supposed to be packing for a trip and, instead, I wrote this. Gabriel agrees that packing is terrible.
One final note: I am not trans or nonbinary however I based a lot of Gabriel’s story on the real story of a friend of mine who is (with their permission).
They/Them –
Gabriel put their head down and kept walking. Growing up knowing they were different in a small town in the deep south meant that they had heard every slur in the book – and even some that weren’t in there – hurled at them. They had a thick skin by now but this time it hurt worse. This time, the abuse was coming from within the walls, or fences really, of Pride. Gabriel had moved to the city almost a year ago, leaving their small minded town behind. They had found a great group of friends and had assumed the positivity and support they had experienced would extend to the rest of the revelers they would meet during Pride but that was, apparently, not the case.
I Aim To Misbehave 