Love loudly — then make it legal

It’s Pride, and St. Pete does Pride right. 🏳️‍🌈 The whole city tips over into rainbow — flags off every balcony, glitter that survives three rinses, the waterfront packed shoulder to shoulder, music spilling down Central. For one bright, loud, sweaty stretch of June it feels like the future already showed up early and decided to dance. So let’s not be shy about it: today, we celebrate.

I’m here as an ally — showing up loud and proud for the people I love. So I want to use this little corner of the internet for two things: to throw my whole heart into the party, and to shout out my friends over at Life Plan Law, right here in St. Petersburg.

Most of what I build lives upstream of a courtroom: tools for the people who make the record. What my friends at Life Plan Law do lives upstream of something even more personal. When life does the hard thing, they make sure the right people are standing exactly where they’re supposed to stand. Wills. Healthcare directives. Powers of attorney. The unglamorous paperwork that decides who gets to make the call, who gets to be in the room, whose name is on the line.

For a lot of families — chosen families especially — that paperwork isn’t a formality. It’s the difference between being recognized and being turned away at the door. The law has not always handed those protections to everyone by default; plenty of people fought, and are still fighting, for the plain right to take care of each other. So the documents matter. Quietly, they’re one of the most underrated love languages there is.

That’s the part of Pride that doesn’t fit on a float: love is also logistics. It’s making sure your person can sit at your bedside. It’s making sure your wishes stay yours. It’s getting the boring stuff exactly right so the beautiful stuff is protected. Joy and paperwork are not opposites — the paperwork is how you keep the joy safe.

So here’s to my friends at Life Plan Law — for doing that work, doing it with heart, and being exactly the people you’d want in your corner. And here’s to everyone out in the street this month: every color in the flag, every chosen family, every person who refused to be quiet about who they love. Take up space. Be loud. Wear the glitter.

Love loudly. Then make it legal. 🏳️‍🌈