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Jun 21, 2021 · 1995 was also the year Chung changed her name to Cecilia. She recalls the difficult conversations she had with her mother the days after the stabbing. Chung's mother came to the hospital after a ...
1965- By Mariana Brandman, NWHM Predoctoral Fellow in Women's History | 2020-2022. Cecilia Chung is a groundbreaking advocate for the transgender community and those living with HIV/AIDS. For decades, she has worked on the local, state, and national levels to end the discrimination and violence that her communities face.
Cecilia Chung (Chinese: 鍾紹琪) is a civil rights leader and activist for LGBT rights, HIV/AIDS awareness, health advocacy, and social justice. She is a trans woman, and her life story was one of four main storylines in the 2017 ABC miniseries When We Rise about LGBT rights in the 1970s and 1980s.
- 1965 (age 57–58), British Hong Kong
May 7, 2020 · News. Politics + Activism. Honor Trans Elders: Cecilia Chung Is the Mother We All Wanted. xoai pham May 7, 2020. 7. Welcome to Autostraddle’s APIA Heritage Month Series, about carrying our...
Jun 22, 2023 · An immigrant from Hong Kong, Cecilia has called San Francisco home since 1984. Cecilia has broken ground in a number of ways, including being the first transgender woman and first agent to be elected to the board of directors of the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Celebration.
Mar 7, 2024 · By Faith Gonia. “I would rather be trying really hard to survive than to look in the mirror and not see myself,” Cecilia Chung profoundly states. A transgender woman who immigrated from Hong Kong, she dedicates her life to fighting for transgender rights as well as HIV/AIDS awareness.
Cecilia Chung, a transgender woman living openly with HIV and Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives and Evaluation of Transgender Law Center, is an internationally recognized civil rights leader who advocates for HIV/AIDS awareness and care, LGBT equality, and social justice.
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