“Yeah,” came the unison agreements.

*

A half an hour later they were all piling into a store they had somehow never seen before, Alice was clearly flabbergasted.

“How in the ***** can this be here and it just flew under the radar of-” She paused briefly to count, “9 *****’s with raging hormones and spending money!” Everyone was clearly just as confused, but it was probably because this store, ‘GayMart’, was not in ‘the village’. Strangely it was on a street where straight couples shopped regularly, that was the only excuse they could come up with for not having seen it before.

“You can’t really count me since I arrived yesterday,” Moira said fairly, but everyone else was still in wonder.

“Well lets get our shop on!” Dana said and dragged Alice to a corner of the store. It was a splash of rainbow. There was pride memorabilia everywhere. In everything you could think of, clothes, jewellery, art, stickers, toys, wallets, bathrobes, and household accessories. Shane was actually gaping.

“Wow!”

“Yeah, it’s like kids in a candy store, except it’s dykes in a ***** store,” Carmen replied, in awe. Drew was taking it in and then shocked them out of their wonderment.

“Let’s go before these ***** take all the good stuff!” The three of them realized their friends were scattered around the store diving into racks of clothes and snorting their laughter or putting on hats and making faces. The store owner looked on happily as if it happened everyday maybe it did but it was still funny. They rushed over to the racks and smiled happily.

Bette and Tina got Angelica a little tiny baby beanie in rainbow colours that said ‘American Girl’, in big black letters on the side. Alice got a rainbow cell phone cover, Dana got a ‘coming out’ bear, it was a cute white teddy bear with a flag and a hat, both sporting the pride colours. Drew bought a cake mould that was shaped like a woman’s torso, *****’s included. Moira bought a rainbow striped antenna ball for a car that didn’t exist.

“It’s in Iowa still,” she told them after she was shot strange looks.

Jenny got a pride flag mouse pad with the silhouette of a naked lady on it in black. She was going to use it on her computer that was in the studio, that’s where her and Moira where staying now, and Drew had her old room. And Shane and Carmen had gotten necklaces. They were made with all sterling silver beads except for 7 beads at the front, a red one, an orange one, a yellow one you get it. The in the centre of the rainbow of beads where two symbols, the ‘female’, the one that looked like a circle with a ‘cross beneath it. They were matching.