Tillett Wright explains her 8-year identity crisis and how no one knew she was a girl until puberty hit. Wright’s major objective was to show LGBTQ should not be treated as second class citizens for having one single different characteristic. She also did a project questioning and photographing thousands of simple portraits of people that are not one hundred percent straight. “I found that most people fall on a spectrum of what I have come to refer to as Grey” (Fifty Shades of Gay, 13:53). This meant that out of the 2,000 people she photographed, most of them were 70-95 percent straight. She also mentions how in 29 states employers are now allowed to fire their workers just for their sexuality. This was the part of the video that really opened my eyes to how poorly the LGBTQ community is treated. We the people are shopping at businesses that would not even sell their product to an LGBTQ member, many of us are unaware of all the struggles these individuals have to face on the daily, and some of us do not speak up when necessary. Currently, we see the struggle with the African American race and police brutality, where several of us are taking action to make a change. In addition, we can be fighting for all people so that all minorities can stop being seen as second-class citizens.  

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Wright, I. (2012, December). Fifty shades of gay. Retrieved July 04, 2020, from https://www.ted.com/talks/io_tillett_wright_fifty_shades_of_gay?language=en