Cecil Chao, the Hong Kong billnaire who offered lns to any man who uld succsfully woo his lbian dghter Gigi, told "20/20" an exclive new terview that he wouldn't force her to change her "gay tenncy" but seems to hold out hope that she will anyway.
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- GAY DGHTER OF HONG KONG BILLNAIRE TELLS HIM: 'I WILL MARRY A MAN WHEN YOU DO'
- HONG KONG BILLNAIRE OFFERS $65 LN TO ANY MAN WHO N WOO HIS GAY DGHTER
- HONG KONG BILLNAIRE TO DOUBLE DOWRY FOR GAY DGHTER
GAY DGHTER OF HONG KONG BILLNAIRE TELLS HIM: 'I WILL MARRY A MAN WHEN YOU DO'
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Ms Chao is now nsired as a LGBT activist and has bee closely volved Big Love Alliance, a gay rights group that lobbi the ernment to pass anti-discrimatn legislatn. Gay dghter of Hong Kong billnaire who offered £80ln to any man who married her tells him: ‘I will marry a man when you do’Property magnate Cecil Chao offered a HKD$1bn 'dowry' for dghterGigi Chao, 34, fend off 20, 000 suors after the ial offer 2012She has now wrten a letter askg her father to accept that she is gayGigi married her partner of ne years France 2012 Published: 08:59 BST, 29 January 2014 | Updated: 14:56 BST, 29 January 2014 The lbian dghter of a Hong Kong billnaire who has offered HKD$1bn (£80ln) 'dowry' to the man who married her, has told him that she will marry a man when he Chao, 34, prevly lghed off her father's scheme to fd a man for her, but has now gone public wh her plea for him to unrstand that she is gay, and that if is as easy as he thks to change her sexual orientatn, he should lead by example.
Scroll down to read the letter full Daddy-dghter day: Gigi Chao has wrten an open letter to her father Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, who offered HKD$1bn(£80ln) 'dowry' to any man who marri her, askg him to accept that she is lbian Happy uple: Gigi, right, asks her father to 'not be terrified' of her partner Sean, left, whom she married a civil ceremony two years ago, and to 'treat her like a dignified human beg' Followg the publitn of an open letter to her father, Ms Chao went even further sayg she will enter a straight marriage, when her father enters a gay one.
HONG KONG BILLNAIRE OFFERS $65 LN TO ANY MAN WHO N WOO HIS GAY DGHTER
'Sce Dad thks 's so easy for me to swch om gay to straight, I should jt leave for him to monstrate. I am a male person, who also happens to be gay".
The two reportedly were married Paris and not Hong Kong, where gay rights are limed. In a recent South Cha Morng Post article, the tyon’s dghter cricized the terrory’s nservative views toward homosexualy, sayg that lagged behd the U.
(Homosexualy was officially crimalized Hong Kong 1991, but same-sex unns are still not regnized. As absurd as sounds, a billnaire om Hong Kong is offerg £40 ln ($64 ln) to man who n who n flatter his gay dghter to marryg him. Billnaire who offered £40ln to anyone who uld 'turn' his lbian dghter straight doubl his offer after 20, 000 would-be suors failedProperty magnate Cecil Chao now offers HKD$1bn 'dowry' for his dghterGigi Chao, 34, fend off 20, 000 suors after the ial offer 2012She may ply, if 's donated and he accepts that she already has a wifeGigi has been married to her long-term partner for nearly two years Published: 10:35 BST, 23 January 2014 | Updated: 08:24 BST, 24 January 2014 Hong Kong billnaire playboy who offered nearly £40ln to any man who uld turn his homosexual dghter straight, has now doubled the 'dowry' Chao raised the reward to HK$1billn (£80ln) after thoands of eligible bachelors failed to nvce his dghter Gigi to marry any of 77-year-old property magnate sists that 34-year-old Gigi is 'still sgle' spe the fact that she married her long-term partner Sean Eav two years ago.
HONG KONG BILLNAIRE TO DOUBLE DOWRY FOR GAY DGHTER
Defely not sgle: Gigi Chao, right, and her partner Sean Eav, have been together for ne years and married Paris 2012 In nial: Hong Kong billnaire Mr Chao, who claims to have slept wh 10, 000 women, still wants his dghter to marry a man - although he won't force her Lovg dghter: Ms Chao says she do not thk her father is offerg the bounty out of evil or spe, but rather that he do not unrstand that homosexualy nnot be changed as he is 'om another time' 'Alternatively, I would be happy to beiend any man willg to donate huge amounts of money to my chary Fah Love, provid they don’t md that I already have a wife. '‘I'm not sayg that she's not okay to be gay, ’ Cecil Chao told ABC News 20/20 October 2012.
Gigi is well-rpected activist for LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) rights Hong Kong and is a foundg member of the lol gay rights group Big Love Alliance. HONG KONG (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - When Hong Kong property tyon Cecil Chao offered $65 ln to any man who uld w over his lbian dghter and make her straight, he advertently laid the ground for her to bee one of Asia’s most proment gay rights mpaigners.
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