Lily-Rose Depp, the daughter of chameleon actor, Johnny Depp, and his former girlfriend of 14 years, Vanessa Paradis, posted an inspirational post to her Instagram account today in hopes of spreading awareness about the Self Evident Truths project. The social awareness is project is to show people that members of the LGBTQ community come in all shapes, sizes, races and economic standing, whether you're 100 percent straight, 100 percent gay, or somewhere in between. By including herself in the project, Lily-Rose revealed she falls somewhere on the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) spectrum, making her sexually fluid.
According to the official website, "The Self Evident Truths project is a photographic document of 10,000 people in the USA that identify as ANYTHING OTHER than 100% straight - as in, if you are anywhere on the LGBTQ spectrum in ANY way, even 1% gay, we want to take your picture! This project exists to spread awareness and understanding about a broader spectrum of human sexuality. We want to bring human stories from within the LGBTQ community to the world, so that we can begin to erase the boundaries between 'Gay,' 'Trans,' 'Straight' and 'Other.'"
A photo posted by iO Tillett Wright (@iolovesyou) on Aug 22, 2015 at 2:46pm PDT
The 16-year-old Chanel model and actress will be a part of the photo series which will include 10,000 photographic documents of people from the United States who don't identify as completely straight. The project was created by artist and activist, iO Tillett Wright.
Wright plans to create an installation with the 10,000 portraits on the lawn of the The Washington Monument, most likely in 2016, before the presidential election. He hopes to fully portray the human spectrum of sexuality by allowing each participant to answer questions using units of measurements of 1-100. The questions will include: masculine to feminine, attraction to males or females, and hyper-sexual to non-sexual. Each question is asked to the participant the day that they're photographed. Wright confirms the questions are not meant to define a person, but to show how broad the spectrum truly is.
Along with the many portraits Wright has accumulated already, he also posts images to show how many celebrities identify with the LGBTQ community like Zoe Saldana, Caitlyn Jenner, Miley Cyrus, Willow Smith, Ruby Rose, Amber Heard, Laverne Cox, Sam Smith and Cara Delevingne.
The purpose of the project is to not only teach people about how diverse the LGBTQ community is, but to also teach the members of the community to truly embrace themselves for who they are.
