September 7, 2011
Limited-Edition T-Shirt Series Supports LGBT Photo Project
Robert Doyle READ TIME: 2 MIN.
WASHINGTON - Musicians, artists, and designers are lending their faces and voices to Human Rights Campaign's newest limited-edition T-shirt series to help support photographer iO Tillett Wright's Self Evident Truths project, a photographic documentation of the LGBT community across 25 cities in an effort to raise awareness about equality.
"The concept behind Self Evident Truths is simple; it's impossible to deny the humanity in a face. We are all human, we all have hearts and emotions and eyes that speak to them, whether we're gay, straight, bisexual, transgender, black, white, Latino, Asian... You get the picture," Wright said on the project's website.
Wright began the project last spring, shooting 300 portraits in New York City on 35 mm film in black-and-white, in natural light without any makeup or styling. She now hopes to expand her project nationally with as many as 5,000 people.
To help advance the project, HRC will release T-shirts featuring musicians Tegan Quin from Tegan and Sara
The unisex T-shirts will sell for $29 and $5 from each shirt will go directly to the Self Evident Truths project. Only 250 of each limited-edition T-shirt will be produced. Previous designs have been released by Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, Perry Ellis, Kenneth Cole, Alex & Chloe, Christian Siriano, Heatherette, Nike and American Apparel.
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For more information about the project, please visit: http://www.facebook.com/SelfEvidentProject.
The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
Long-term New Yorkers, Mark and Robert have also lived in San Francisco, Boston, Provincetown, D.C., Miami Beach and the south of France. The recipient of fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo, and Blue Mountain Center, Mark is a PhD in American history and literature, as well as the author of the novels Wolfchild and My Hawaiian Penthouse. Robert is the producer of the documentary We Are All Children of God. Their work has appeared in numerous publications, as well as at : www.mrny.com.
