"I took the train to pride" sounds like the first line of the refrain of a 1980s pop song
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Reminded me of "Yesterday" by the Beatles because of the quotidian lyrics and the iambic meter:
I took the train to pride
I saw a film to-day, oh boy
it was very gay and I saw a lot of titties
God bless queer women 
I'm marching today in my parade as part of queers for Palestine.
Pride USED to be a radical political event and not just a corporate ad fest. Today I'm gonna try to help take it back a bit. We'll see.
I do feel like more people are starting to get political again in pride so it's good to see you got to be a part of it too
o7
hell yeah
Nice! Glad you had a great day!
More queer train drivers!
Awesome! I'm doing the same today with Toronto pride. The people I normally go with can't make it so it'll probably be a solo trip. But those can be fun too.
I didn't take the train but otherwise same 
None of my friends went with me (one I'd usually go with is getting into the party scene this year instead), but I got a special pride bus pass and ran into someone I've done mutual aid work with selling their art. Genuinely a lot of cool radical queer people around (like pretty close to saying "death to america", not just anti-war activists or radlibs), it was very inspiring. I even bought some punk patches, though I don't know what I'll put them on. not sure I can pull off that kind of jacket, but also I kinda want to try it
There's so much more I want to share but I don't want to doxx myself any worse, its pretty city specific. suffice to say while my extremely shy ass didn't make a lot of new connections, I had a nice time soloing pride and fell more in love with my city/our queer community than ever.