Weng Yu Ching

Weng has been fighting for LGBT rights since she was 17, when she saw a pride parade for the first time in her home city of Kaohsiung. Interest piqued, she made friends in the LGBT community and worked at an LGBT support hotline, chatting with closeted people who often "fear rejection due to their sexuality."

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Weng Yu Ching, 24, has been campaigning for LGBT rights in Taiwan since she was a teenager.