When I do a market my badges are sorted in themes in little boxes for easy searching and bc people tend to be a bit to shy to really dig into bigger containers, and a plus for me with that is that I can observe what peoples eye falls on without getting into their buisiness too much.
So of course the pride pins are grouped, and of course there are certain people I can spot walking over and think "Oh yes, One of Us." and they'll pass by and immediately 👀👀👀 to this box.
But the fun part is, as good as I am at spotting fellow queers, I can never for the life of me guess which button they will pick. My buttons are purposefully very specific (everyone has seen enough generic rainbow and love=love badges to last a lifetime I think) and it's just so fun to see which one people go with.
I especially love the dynamics when there's two people and one of them will pick up a badge and shove it in the other persons face without saying a word and the other person just goes "Ah yes, that's totally Anne"
This is without a fail always one of the cheeky slogans, like the "Pansexual and still not into you"
and people connect to me too. A trans woman bought some pronoun badges from me, leaned over the table and said "I made this for when people have difficulty understanding", and pulled out a stack of 3-fold calling cards that had a simple diagram for pronoun use printed out on them, and gave me one.
Also I just have to laugh with people's pairings with my other badges, like the person who spend some time rummaging in the boxes and slapped down a "Gender? No thanks!" and one where I just doodled a really crappy bloody knife. Nice combo, ads some flavour to the message.