On February 15th, 2010, Yosi Sergant asked me to participate in Manifest Equality, a group show designed to bring awareness and policy change to laws affecting the LGBT community in America.

On February 16th, I sent out a call to everyone I knew that was part of that community, asking to photograph them, and their friends.

My goal was to humanize the abstracted idea of ‘gays’ in America with unposed portraits.

I asked for anyone on any end of the LGBT spectrum. I accepted everyone who emailed me, and made appointments, first come, first serve. I had ten days to shoot.

These are those faces.

See the whole project on my website: darlingdays.com

-iO Wright