iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay

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Check out this great talk from TEDxWomen by iO Tillett Wright, a cool, queer photographer from New York. She talks about her experience growing up as part of the LGBTQ community and references an amazing LGBTQ themed project she’s been working on.

Photographer iO Tillett Wright grew up between genders and sexualities. She’s shot 2,000 people who consider themselves somewhere on the LBGTQ spectrum and asked many: can they assign a percentage to how gay or straight they are? Most people consider themselves to exist in the grey areas of sexuality, which presents a real problem when it comes to discrimination. Because where do you draw the line?