iO Tillett Wright

At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing…

— iO Tillett Wright

Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays…

— iO Tillett Wright

For me, photography is not just about exposing film, it's about exposing the viewer to something new, a place they haven't gone…

— iO Tillett Wright

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you…

— iO Tillett Wright

I was part of a show called 'Manifest Equality' in Los Angeles in 2010, and I realized there was a disconnect between…

— iO Tillett Wright

All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

— iO Tillett Wright

I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest…

— iO Tillett Wright

It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get…

— iO Tillett Wright

“Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.”

— iO Tillett Wright

We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know…

— iO Tillett Wright