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 help people put their wishes into words and documents. Wills. Healthcare directives. Powers of attorney. Different documents for different jobs: recording wishes, naming trusted decision-makers, and planning for the people you love.
For a lot of families — chosen families especially — that paperwork isn’t a formality. It’s a way to make wishes and responsibilities explicit before a crisis. 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.
Clarification — September 4, 2026: Visiting someone and making healthcare decisions for them are different rights. For hospitals covered by the CMS visitation rules, patients can designate partners or friends as visitors, subject to permitted clinical restrictions; a legal document is not a general admission requirement. Florida’s healthcare-surrogate law separately addresses designating someone to make healthcare decisions or receive health information. A local attorney can explain which documents fit a family’s wishes and circumstances.
That’s the part of Pride that doesn’t fit on a float: love is also logistics. It’s talking about who you want beside you and who you trust to speak for you. It’s making sure your wishes stay yours. It’s getting the boring stuff right so the people you love have something clear to work from. Joy and paperwork belong together.
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. 🏳️🌈