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????珍妮佛?常：勇敢出柜做自己

????年齡：32歲

????職務：高級產品營銷經理

????任職公司：eBay

????地理位置：圣何塞，加利福尼亞州

????珍妮佛?常是第一代亞裔美國人，在芝加哥一個保守的家庭長大。她說，自己二十五歲左右出柜，結果“差點毀掉我的生活”。但在eBay工作期間，她從同性戀同事中找到了自己的榜樣。他們告訴她：“你也可以成功；你也可以有自己的家庭，”她說。在遇到自己的愛人（現在已經成為她的妻子）之后，常希望在發展中國家的同性戀社群尋找關于希望的故事。在休假一年期間，常和愛人走遍了亞洲、非洲和南美洲的16個國家，在博客上記錄和拍攝各地的普通人，例如尼泊爾的一位變性人政治家，以及一位在柬埔寨邊遠地區創立女性支持網絡的年輕人等。一部與她們的項目有關的紀錄片《走出來，走出去》（Out and Around）也在籌備當中。常說：“我希望，不論是同性戀還是異性戀，都能把這些故事看成是單純的、非常人性化的故事。”

????Jennifer Chang

????Age 32

????Occupation Senior Product Marketing Manager

????Company eBay

????Location San Jose, Calif.

????Coming out as gay in her mid-twenties “rocked my world,” says Jennifer Chang, a first-generation Asian-American who grew up in a conservative household in Chicago. But while working at eBay, she found role models among her gay colleagues who showed her that “you could be successful; you could have a family,” she says. After meeting her partner (now wife), Chang wanted to capture stories of hope among the LGBT community all across the developing world. In the course of a year-long leave of absence, Chang and her partner traveled to 16 countries across Asia, Africa, and South America, blogging about and filming people such as a transgender politician in Nepal and a young man who started a support network for women in rural Cambodia. A documentary about their project, “Out and Around,” is in the works, too. “I hope that people, whether they’re gay or straight, see these as very human stories,” Chang says.