I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave a rainbow flag proudly, but I am not a singular identity. I think a singular identity isn't very interesting, and I'm a little bit more multifaceted as a person than that.

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

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