Sheley Secrest, a vice president for the King County NAACP, stands among demonstrators on February 25, 2016 at a rally for for Che Taylor, who was shot and killed Sunday by Seattle Police. Photographed for The Seattle Globalist.

A member of Rancho Viejo Charro Association waves during the 56th annual Sunfair Parade on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, in downtown Yakima, Wash. 

Iftan Hagimohamed, 32, poses for a portrait at the New Holly Gathering Hall on November 12, 2016.

Tamara, an undocumented woman from Africa, whose legal status has recently expired, and whose name has been changed in this piece to protect her against possible enforcement action by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, poses for a portrait on Saturday, April 15, 2017, in the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire. Tamara has lived in and out of status in New England for about 14 years, while studying, working as a nurse, and taking care of her three children. Photographed for the Valley News.

Capt. Simratpal Singh, who has been granted an exemption by the Army to wear a beard and turban, near his parents' home in Auburn, Wash. in November 2015. Photographed for The Sikh Coalition, published in the New York Times on April 1, 2016

Olivia Lhundup-Zebo, 15, on Thursday, May 18, 2017, at Howe Library in Hanover, N.H. Lhundup-Zebo, who is non-binary, said, “A lot of people are very uncomfortable with people either switching genders, being both genders or being ambiguous. Ambiguity is most scary for people because they need to know: ‘Are you a boy or are you a girl?’ But why do you need to know? Are you going to treat me differently?” Photographed for the Valley News.

Jorge Cuellar, a queer immigrant from Mexico, at Red Square on the University of Washington campus on November 14, 2016 in Seattle, Wash. during an anti-Trump rally on campus.

Lara McLeod in her Seattle apartment. Virginia police arrested McLeod in 2011 after she reported her assault.

Rudy Maag. New Brunswick, NJ

Marielle Sales. New Brunswick, NJ

Bill Austin at his North Seattle home. Austin fought for more than 10 years for justice — treatment, not prison — for his son, Nathan, who struggles with drug abuse and mental disorders. Photographed for the Seattle Weekly.

Zane Mohamed, left, and Sami Ahmed, right, pose for a portrait at the New Holly Gathering Hall on Saturday, November 12, 2016. “I’m proud to be a Muslim and I always will be,” Ahmed said for a Seattle Weekly 2016 election reaction piece. “I won’t change for anybody. FDT, that’s all I have to say.”

Isaiah McNeill of hip-hop duo I.O.U. at the New Brunswick Transit Center in New Brunswick, NJ. 

Hawi Ali poses for a portrait on June 4, 2016 before the Rainier Beach High School senior class prom at Club Sur in Seattle, Wash.

Mary Otto reflected in the shadowbox of a white-robed “Weihnachtsmann,” the German Santa Clause from her dad’s childhood, on Monday, March 13, 2017, at her home in Norwich, Vt. Otto has saved family heirlooms, which she considers treasures and burdens. Photographed for the Valley News.

Spring Lacy, a Prudential Financial VP, outside the Prudential building on September 15, 2016 in Newark, NJ. Lacy has an open-door policy for young women seeking professional guidance. (For the Wall Street Journal)

My partner, Ramon Dompor, poses for a portrait in North Bend, WA.