As a founding producer of the San Francisco Trans March, Cecilia helped organize one of the world’s first and largest annual transgender events, which has since been replicated in cities across the U.S. He continues to advocate for LGBT refugees around the world and is currently working with a group of LGBT refugees in Turkey, called “Tea and Talk.” RELATED: Gay Syrian Refugee Helps Other LGBT Refugees Find Asylum – WATCHĬecilia Chung is an internationally recognized leader who has been advocating for HIV/AIDS awareness and care, LGBT equality, and social justice, for more than 30 years. Security Council on the plight of LGBT people under persecution in his home country. Subhi Nahas is a Syrian refugee who co-founded the first LGBT magazine in Syria, Mawaleh. Her memoir, Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen, will be published by Random House Children’s Books and hits bookstores on June 7.

Jazz currently stars in the TLC docu-series I Am Jazz, returning on June 8. Since her first appearance with her family at age 6 on 20/20, Jazz has become one of the nation’s best known voices on the experiences of trans young people. Jazz Jennings is the 15-year-old honorary co-founder of the Transkids Purple Rainbow Foundation and the youngest Grand Marshal in NYC Pride history.