I had a really sweet encounter a few days ago,I was at a mall,looking through CDs and there was a group of scouts,all about 12 or 13. One of them looked at me a few times and seemed to stick around me a bit. For context,I had my backpack on,and it has a Velcro progress pride flag patch on the back. Then she approached me after a while. She seemed a bit shy and said she really liked the patch on my backpack. I smiled,said thanks and she quickly went back to her group,cause they were leaving.
That encounter made me really happy,because it was just so sweet and pure and it shows again,how important it is to have openly queer people and representation. And just the fact that I maybe made a possibly closeted or out kid feel seen and show them that we exist,makes it worth it.