For #LGBThistorymonth I will be posting an #lgbtq #womaninhistory every day. Today is Jean Chong, a Singaporean LGBT rights activist who co-founded Sayoni, the LGBT rights organization.

Chong “always wished there were lesbian role models” and this led her to became an LGBT activist. She volunteered with a gay Christian support network, Safehaven where she would later become the first female vice chairperson. She has since co-founded an inclusive church, Free (First Realize Everyone is Equal) Community Church and served as chairperson.

Chong is a part of the core team of the LGBT federation, People Like Us in Singapore as well as serving as one of the leaders of the ASEAN Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression Caucus, an activist collective which fights for the inclusion of LGBTIQ rights in the ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism.