LAFAYETTE VALENTINE

they/them

birth date: 1999

183 cm

non-binary

amab

London



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photo: Carys Huws
photo: Carys Huws

what are you really good at?

improvisation, basketball, joking, physical activities (climbing, running, jumping etc)

what do you do besides modelling?

other than modelling, i act. i've been a professional actor for 12 years now, i do screen, stage, voice and movement in terms of performance. day to day, i work with children, i currently work in a school with young special educational needs children and help them to develop their social and academic skills. i dabble in writing and creating. i'm also a member of the ballroom community, i walk old way mainly but occasionally face

who are your lgbtqia+ role models?

so many. I discover new ones of yesteryear and today so often, especially the people who don't make it into the history books or more likely erased. at this point in my life i try not to hold people on pedestals but our perseverance as a community never fails to inspire me

what makes you get out of bed in the morning?

forging a good today and a better tomorrow! being free in a larger sense but also finding the time to be stupid and silly and happy in the present

anything else you want people to know?

i love cutesy domestic things, plants, cooking, candles. i aspire to have a pet turtle one day

photo: Cora Hamilton
photo: Cora Hamilton
photo: Cora Hamilton
photo: Cora Hamilton
photo: Cora Hamilton