About the Cover
Cover. On the cover this month, Cecilia Chung poses for a photograph in San Francisco, California, on February 16, 2001, just before the city that symbolizes liberalism and sexual openness extended its health insurance to cover sex-change operations for municipal employees. Chung, currently the deputy director of the Transgender Law Center (see http://www.transgenderlawcenter.org), is an immigrant from Hong Kong and has been a San Francisco resident for close to 20 years. An openly transgender and HIV-postive woman, Chung was a member of the Transgender Discrimination Task Force in 1994 that lead to a groundbreaking report by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. She has worked as an HIV test counselor for the University of California, San Francisco, AIDS Health Project and as a residential counselor for Ferguson Place, a residential treatment program for people living with HIV, where she successfully increased agency sensitivity toward transgender people. In 1998, Chung joined the board of directors of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee. In 2001, she became the first Asian and the first transgender woman elected as president of the board, and led the organization to a new standard of inclusion and excellence. Chung was one of the producers of Transgender March, among San Francisco's largest transgender events, and in 2005 produced the first ever Trans Stage at San Francisco Pride. Chung was a writer for the HIV Life Channel of Gay.com and was appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission in 2004, where she co-chairs the San Francisco LGBT Advisory Committee and was recently elected as Commission Vice-Chair.
Photograph by Ben Margot. Printed with permission of AP Images. Cover concept and selection by Aleisha Kropf.
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