“I became fond of everyone who lived there but particularly close to the House’s owner, who I can’t name for safety reasons. She’s one of the boldest and most courageous people I have ever met, and refuses to let fear compromise her identity,” he says. And while that may be a dangerous attitude to have in a place in which LGBT people are so frequently preyed upon, I can’t help but feel a huge amount of admiration for her fearlessness in the face of animosity.” “On my last day at the house, she said to me ‘If they had a knife to my throat, I would still say I am a gay’.
While the images in the series strike a somewhat juxtaposing chord in their recognition of a hostile outside world, House of Kings and Queens ultimately responds to the notion of a beautiful kind of unity in the face of such oppression a call-to-arms for that solidarity to transcend borders.
