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• GAY DGHTER OF HONG KONG BILLNAIRE TELLS HIM: 'I WILL MARRY A MAN WHEN YOU DO'
• $64M TO MARRY MY 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'

"In a separate terview wh The Tim, she said: "Sce Dad thks 's so easy for me to swch om gay to straight, I should jt leave for him to monstrate. 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. '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". 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. The bizarre reward 2012 grabbed ternatnal headl and his dghter, Gigi Chao, was bombard wh thoands of marriage proposals om across the world – om war veterans to a body double of Gee Clooney a sports was the first time the issue of acceptance of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny had played out such high-profile way Hong Kong – a cy morn many ways but where social attus rema nservative.

$64M TO MARRY MY GAY DGHTER

”Such a public fd a well-known fay would have been remarkable anywhere but was particularly unual Asia when no untry the regn at that time regnised same-sex was only last year that the Taiwan’s nstutnal urt paved the way for the island to bee the first place Asia wh gay marriage after led favor of same-sex Chao is not only the heir to her father’s property bs and one of Hong Kong’s richt women, she is also the most regnizable face mpaigng for LGBT rights the bswoman has been g her fluence high society to fe a aln of alli to mobilize support for the LGBTQ muny. Bobby Yip / RtersENGAGING BUSINESSESHomosexualy has been crimalised sce 1991 Hong Kong, a former Brish lony which returned to Che le 1997.

The cy has an annual pri para and lively gay spe the cy enjoyg eedom of speech and assembly, do not regnise same-sex marriage and mpaigners say LGBT people still face wispread discrimatn and often e unr fay prsure to marry and have children. Bobby Yip / RtersTOP LGBT EXECUTIVEThere have been other signs of growg Kong is set to bee the host of the 2022 Gay Gam, a sports and cultural event dubbed the “Gay Olympics, ” after fightg off bids om ci the Uned Stat and a rare victory, a Hong Kong urt last year led that a Brish lbian whose partner worked the cy should receive a spoal chary Big Love Alliance - of which Chao is a foundg member - anis an annual Pk Dot gatherg to mpaign for LGBT rights and has attracted sponsorship om embassi and vtment also works wh the Uned Natns on LGBT rights and beme the first Asian to be named as the top LGBT executive on an annual OUTstandg list piled by the Fancial Tim which ranks LGBT role mols bs.

HONG KONG BILLNAIRE TO DOUBLE DOWRY FOR GAY DGHTER

But by g out, Gigi Chao has touched off a society-wi nversatn about the difficulti facg lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr-intifyg Hong Kongers as they try to fd acceptance wh their own fai.

“It’s a belief that g out as gay is a blatant disrpect for your parents, ” says Chao, speakg about Che culture. Most gay people I know rpect their parents very much.

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.