Before planning and undergoing a  shoot based on LGBTQ youth I wanted to educate myselfmore on how it was a form of activism and is the reason there are more rights today and  youth are more comfortable with their sexuality, in the hope I would be able to execute this through the right models and portraits. The stonewall riots was an important historical moment which documented activism and  the power of protesting. I learnt that the riots also helped black power and how it made a big difference to the lives people are able to live today. I also think the riots showed how politcally and socially wrong and judged people were to be gay. Researching this inspired me to want to do a shoot of a young queer couple or LGBTQ activists. Studying in Brighton I think a shoot couple be excuted in a gay bar to link to riots or intimate street portaits to depict how it is slightly more socially acceptable and overall create an empowering series.