All She Wanted For Christmas Was A Pride Flag

And her dad's response was just perfect.
From: NewNowNext

After his bisexual daughter asked for a rainbow flag for Christmas, this dad decided to surprise her with a touching gesture of acceptance.

 20-year-old college student Dakotah Whitcomb accidentally came out to her father as bi earlier this year when the two were out to dinner with her brother.

“We were in a restaurant and the waitress was flirting with me, and my dad goes ‘Wow, she likes you!’” Whitcomb told BuzzFeed. “And my brother says, ‘Well, it’s not like Dakotah minds.’”

“[My dad] just gave me this look, and I said, ‘Yeah, I like girls too.’ And he said, ‘That’s so cool!’”

Though she’d been nervous to come out to her father, she said he accepted her “fully and immediately.”

“We were raised with the concept that being gay is okay,” she explained. “We have a lot of LGBT family members and friends.”

 A few months later, Whitcomb asked her dad for a Pride flag for Christmas. Admittedly, she asked for the present last minute, so wasn’t expecting to receive it in time for the Holidays.

However, come Christmas morning, her father had quite the surprise waiting for her.

In addition to gifting her the rainbow flag, Dakota’s dad also included a letter promising that he’d fly the pride symbol alongside the family’s many military flags in the front yard.

My dad got me the best Christmas present I have ever received this year. pic.twitter.com/uGcvWdsUxI

— BadBee 🌵 (@SatanKotah) December 25, 2016

“When I saw that a Gay Pride flag was on your list, at first I thought it was an odd request,” he wrote. “But after thinking about it, I think I know why.”

“I reckon that you feel that everyone else in the family…has a flag that represents something we were/are a part of,” he continued. “I have the Marine Corps, Grandpa and Mom have the Navy, and Darr has the Army. So it makes sense that you would want a flag to represent something you are a part of.”

He concluded: “I present you with this flag, to display how you would like. In the spring, when I hang the flags up, I would be proud to hang yours up.”

“Military has always been part of my family and I can’t join because of medical issues,” Whitcomb remarked. “So the fact that my dad would fly my pride flag next to everyone’s military flag just made me feel even more loved and included!”

Whitcomb was so touched by her father’s gesture that she cried and marched around the house with the rainbow flag tied around her shoulders.

“I knew I was accepted by everyone in my family,” Whitcomb said. “But this just drove it home.”