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How a HK$1 billion manhunt led Gigi Chao to a role as LGBTQ ...
Gigi Chao: The businesswoman fighting for LGBTQ equality in Hong Kong and beyond
In 2012, Gigi Chao made headlines around the world because her billionaire father offered a huge cash reward (around £40 million) to any man who would marry her, even though she was already married to a woman.
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Shipping magnate and property tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung then doubled his offer in what was basically a bid to turn his gay daughter straight – prompting Gigi to pen an open letter, published in the Hong Kong press, asking him to accept both her sexuality and her wife, Sean Eav.
“As for my father’s cash offer, it affected Sean more”, says Chao.
“She found it more intimidating and upsetting because tens of thousands of men – some quite strange ones – wrote in or waited for us at the entrances of our buildings and our home. I thought about it and decided my response should definitely be to support her, first and foremost.”
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