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At the beginning of the Justice Leagues creation there were not many holidays they celebrated due to the diverse nature of the members alongside the amount of tension that had been created between some of them due to lack of communication and normal activities that they hadn’t been able to do. However, when the Martian Manhunter joined the Justice League he had requested that he could share his culture alongside StarFire who longed to include their friends in what they found comforting from their native planets. This ignited the love for celebrations within the League, celebrating every important day for all. It varied from christmas to National diversity week that they invited all those within the watchtower to bring food or recipes over the entire week to be shared among them to understand and love the differences within one another. When Captain Marvel joined they hadn’t celebrated Pride Month before because a lot of the members either weren’t out publicly and didn’t want to be or went to their respective pride parades in their usual areas. A year after he had joined, he suggested the idea as a member of the community which had been immediately accepted by the members with excitement. They all had decided to decorate the WatchTower from stem to stern with pride flags; a main communal living room had been converted mainly for those wanting to participate. The plan was to livestream the room with members to raise money for the Trevor Project alongside with donating money themselves as they dressed in their respective pride flag versions of their costumes.
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Billy was anxious to say the least, the pride parade had been in planning for so long and it was his idea! He just didn’t want it to go wrong especially with the amount of members that were planning on showing up. Captain Marvel had moved the sofas into a triangle-like position with the camera against the window facing towards the sofas and the rest of the room that had a large pride flag behind the two sofas and memorabilia for donating to the cause. Lastly, there was a table between the camera and sofas with MANY colourful objects and sweets that varied from skittles to brownies with sprinkles on them. The tall hero wasn’t the only one here early though, Batman was typing on his phone while doing something to the camera while still in all black (Hopefully, he will change?) while WonderWomen was dressed in a soft gradient from a deep to pale orange with a harsh white line of her belt to the sunset pink that covered her boots. He will always love the Lesbian flag, it is gorgeous. Captain Marvel also had his pride colours on with a slightly muted orange but similar to Diana with the white belt before it delved into a gentle blue that got darker. Billy and Captain Marvel are Aromantic and Asexual, something he knew from a very young age. Before he even suggested the Pride Parade Billy researched all known sexualities of his co-workers mainly out of fear incase any weren’t exactly accepting, even if that was a impossible thought, and found Superman as openly as Bisexual for the past few years and attending Metropolis own pride parade alongside with The Flash and Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) and some of the Justice League Dark such as John is pansexual while Raven is also bisexual. There are also some of the sidekicks and other heroes who have been invited such as the bat-family.
Thankfully, the overwhelming answer was yes, everyone was incredibly supportive or a part of the community itself. This led to what's happening now: A fun livestream doing many different activities while promoting the Trevor project in hopes that they can spread the message and support to others around the world.
The First section was for the main 3 of the Justice League: Superman, Wonderwomen and Batman. They were all in their pride costumes with Wonderwomen in lesbian colours, Superman is bisexual ones and Batman in omnisexual ones. They introduced the livestream and what would be happening with Batman being the supervisor of any inappropriate donations or negativity within viewers while other members hosted games throughout the day. But to start with, Superman and Wonderwomen began to bet who based on vibes alone would be wearing. A lot of the donations during that time chimed in, Batman reading them off, on who they also thought would be certain sexualities. As the hour went on as they went through members of the community Flash had arrived eating crackers as he sat on the back of the sofa and watched in his own bisexual colours.
The second section was Flash and a Green Lantern, (Hal) in a matching bisexual costume, who thought it was hilarious to rate who celebrities and Superheros were the hottest in a tier list. (If you asked who had brought it, Billy could not tell you as it was not prepared beforehand) with Batman very begrudgingly reading off suggestions on where who should go or adding Villains to the list from donations over the very long 2 hours with loud laughter and slightly uncomfortable compliments given out by the duo.
The third section was meant for the three Green Lanterns, Guy who was in the transgender colours, Hal still in his bisexual ones and Kyle in the Pansexual ones but Flash decided to stick around as he always got on too well with the Green Lanterns. Poor Batman . They decided that they wanted to do karaoke of pride songs for their full 2 hours while the donations gave suggestions on what songs to do next. It was extremely loud and fun the entire time but eventually had to come to an end.
The fourth section was Aquaman, Cyborg and Martian Manhunter who all wore black and white with rainbow bracelets for the ally flag. They had decided to do a quiz on the community to test their knowledge and show their support even if they weren’t apart of them, this tested them on which flag represented what, Word used within the community and trivia on the LBTQ history. Unsurprisingly, Cyborg got the highest score with his general knowledge with Aquaman falling behind by 4 points and Martian Manhunter being last but very happy to have learnt so much about all of his friends. Overall, it was a very fun and sweet game.
Lastly, some of the bat family decided to come to the watchtower to join but only 3 of them were able to make it. Nightwing was in bisexual colours which was expected as one of the first very openly bisexual superhero, Red Robin in the gay mlm flag which not many of the viewers had expected for some reason and Robin in Aromantic and Asexual colours which Captain Marvel was very happy about to have someone to relate to. They decided to move to the kitchen on the watchtower and bake a cake, which Billy thought was so cool before realising that Nightwing was banned from any kitchen and had almost burnt the entire place down instead of making the rainbow cake they had intended to. Robin was the only one following the recipe while Red Robin was trying to ‘wing it’ with Nightwing adding anything he found sweet or suitable which ended up in a large mess. But everyone had fun so Captain Marvel counted it a win in his books?
To end the day, anyone who stuck around or was free went back to the sofas and sat around, eating the sweets as they answered questions that had been asked throughout the livestream and piled into a file for the end. It was an incredibly fun day that everyone participated in no matter if they were or not in the community and raised funds for the project to help young people in need within their community.
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This had created a fun tradition for every Pride Month of doing fun events streamed online with the Justice League members alongside with a lot of the younger groups such as Young Justice and Teen Titans who all did their own versions just with their members. It also helped raise lots of money for those in-need within their community and brought support to those who found they could relate to the heroes, especially those closer in age.