The Self Evident Truths project is a photographic document of 10,000 people in the USA that identify as ANYTHING OTHER than 100% straight

Created by artist iO Tillett Wright, the aim of the project is to humanize a vast community through the simplicity of their faces, showing that we come in all shapes, sizes, races, and social strata, thus making it harder for people to discriminate against us.
 

How did the project come about?

For the best explanation, we invite you to watch iO's TED talk.

In 2010, stunned by the Prop 8 debacle, iO started to ponder where the real disconnect was between queer Americans and those voting against them, and he surmised it was an issue of fear. Unfamiliar with the realities of queer life, and bombarded with misinformation, conservative voters are in the dark about what it means to be queer, so he decided to introduce people to each-other. Thus the portrait project was born!

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