《财富》500强平民英雄大盘点

    珍妮佛•常：勇敢出柜做自己

    年龄：32岁

    职务：高级产品营销经理

    任职公司：eBay

    地理位置：圣何塞，加利福尼亚州

    珍妮佛•常是第一代亚裔美国人，在芝加哥一个保守的家庭长大。她说，自己二十五岁左右出柜，结果“差点毁掉我的生活”。但在eBay工作期间，她从同性恋同事中找到了自己的榜样。他们告诉她：“你也可以成功；你也可以有自己的家庭，”她说。在遇到自己的爱人（现在已经成为她的妻子）之后，常希望在发展中国家的同性恋社群寻找关于希望的故事。在休假一年期间，常和爱人走遍了亚洲、非洲和南美洲的16个国家，在博客上记录和拍摄各地的普通人，例如尼泊尔的一位变性人政治家，以及一位在柬埔寨边远地区创立女性支持网络的年轻人等。一部与她们的项目有关的纪录片《走出来，走出去》（Out and Around）也在筹备当中。常说：“我希望，不论是同性恋还是异性恋，都能把这些故事看成是单纯的、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.