Dress For Your Dream Prom — Not By the Gender Rules

Photography by Colin Gray

The American high school institution known as prom is a dilemma for many LGBTQ students: do you conform and try to pretend it's a night to remember or reject it completely. For its new feature, It's Our Prom: A Night to De-Gender, MTV invited 12 young people with diverse gender identities to imagine fantasy looks they'd create for their ideal prom night with the take away message:

Our hope is to spread a message about compassion and inclusion that can be heard from the streets of Lebanon, Ohio, to the gymnasiums of Charlotte, North Carolina: No one deserves to be told what to wear to the party.

SLIDESHOW | Prom Styling Images by Photographer Colin Gray

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