Miley Cyrus launches #InstaPride campaign to help support transgender youths
Miley Cyrus has teamed up with Instagram to launch a brand new social justice campaign aimed at helping to support transgender youths.
The pop star is fronting Happy Hippie Presents #InstaPride to try and raise awareness of issues facing the LGBT community by focusing on a number of people across the gender spectrum.
Proving just how hands-on she is with the new project, Cyrus actually got behind the camera herself this week to take portraits of the people who are fronting the campaign.
Speaking to Time about the new launch, she said: "Anyone should be able to express how they feel, without question, and be able to live. And use the f***ing public restrooms."
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Happy Hippie is Cyrus' own non-profit group, launched last year after the tragic death of transgender teen Leelah Alcorn, who took her own life.
Cyrus, 22, said: "People like Leelah are not living their lives because people are telling them what to be.
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"And there are women miles away from me right now that are only allowed to show this much of their eyes. I can stand on a stage with my t**s out."
Cyrus added: "It’s so unfair that I’m allowed to be like this and there are two men that can’t get married in f***ing Nashville right now."
The #InstaPride campaign is set to run for two weeks.
