Contents:
- GAY DGHTER OF HONG KONG BILLNAIRE TELLS HIM: 'I WILL MARRY A MAN WHEN YOU DO'
- HONG KONG BILLNAIRE TO DOUBLE DOWRY FOR GAY DGHTER
- GAY DGHTER TO BILLNAIRE DAD: TREAT MY GIRLIEND LIKE A HUMAN BEG
- HONG KONG BILLNAIRE OFFERS $65 MILLN TO ANY MAN WHO CAN WOO HIS GAY DGHTER
- SUORS BOMBARD HONG KONG TYON'S GAY DGHTER AFTER DOWRY
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". 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.
HONG KONG BILLNAIRE TO DOUBLE DOWRY FOR GAY DGHTER
“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. 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.
Property and shippg tyon Cecil Chao publicly promised the "marriage bounty" after reports emerged that his dghter had wed her long-term Chao, who has never married himself, told the BBC his dghter was still sgle and need a "good hband" unns are not regnised Hong Kong, although homosexualy was crimalised Chao, a bswoman and graduate om the Universy of Manchter, is said to have married her female partner of seven years, Sean Eav, a ceremony France earlier this her flamboyant father rejected the claims as false, addg that his genero offer had already generated many repli om potential ptn, Gigi Chao: "My father thks is worth the money as a matter of social standg" "It is an ducement to attract someone who has the talent but not the pal to start his own bs, " Mr Chao said.
GAY DGHTER TO BILLNAIRE DAD: TREAT MY GIRLIEND LIKE A HUMAN BEG
4%, of the globe's 1, 645 billnair openly intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. Among the openly-gay hyper-wealthy are Domeni Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, the duo behd fashn power hoe Dolce & Gabbana.
Some of the bsmen and women have ed their fortun to advote for gay rights. 5% of Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr; statistilly, 19 of Ameri’s 492 billnair should intify as such. Billnair have exprsed their allegiance for their gay dghters and sons fancially: hedge fund billnaire Pl Sger has given more than $10 ln to support marriage equaly – his gay son, Andrew, tied the knot – while Progrsive surance’s Peter Lewis, recently ceased, donated $250, 000 to the Gay & Lbian Victory Fund 2008, as my lleague Clare O’Connor noted.
His son, Jonathan, is also gay. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban ss on the advisory board of Athlete Ally, a nonprof targetg homophobia sports. Beg wealthy do not necsarily make easier to publicly intify as gay.
HONG KONG BILLNAIRE OFFERS $65 MILLN TO ANY MAN WHO CAN WOO HIS GAY DGHTER
“Do you know how many people the fancial world are openly gay?
By our reckong, Thiel is the only one who is openly gay. Of urse, some untri are more equal than others terms of gay rights, which might expla why natns wh the send- and third-hight number of billnair – Cha, 152, and Rsia, 111 – do not list a sgle LGBT billnaire. A week after Hong Kong tyon Cecil Chao doubled his 2012 offer of $64 ln to any man who uld marry his gay dghter, Gigi Chao has publicly rebed him and urged her dad to accept her partner of ne years.
SUORS BOMBARD HONG KONG TYON'S GAY DGHTER AFTER DOWRY
S., someone om Addis Ababa Ethpia, om Istanbul, South Ameri, Portugal, really jt om all over the world, ” said Chao, siftg through emails on a whe Apple laptop her father’s high-rise office suor om the Uned Stat wrote: “I’m terted your offer to wed your dghter, who also happens to be gay.
I am a male person, who also happens to be gay.
It crimalized homosexualy has gay social venu, film ftivals and gay pri paras, makg a bastn of liberalism pared wh Cha, where homosexualy was fed as a mental disorr until 2001. “I’m not able to generalize about the experienc of all people the gay muny, but I thk we Hong Kong at the moment, are the middle, we’re not punishable by ath for beg gay, but ’s not celebrated and obvly never enuraged, ” said Chao. ”Some hope the edy value of the whole high-profile father dghter drama uld help start a nstctive dialogue about gay attus the regn.