Gigi Chao

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Gigi Chao ( Chinese  趙 式 芝 , Pinyin Zhào Shìzhī ; * 1979 ) is a Chinese architect , model agency boss and helicopter pilot.

Life

Chao is the daughter of entrepreneur Cecil Chao and actress Kelly Yao Wei . She graduated from the University of Manchester and now works as a director in her father's company. She gained international fame after publicly admitting her homosexuality and after a public conflict with her father. He does not accept his daughter's homosexuality and after she married her long-term partner, he publicly offered an amount of 65 million US dollars in 2012 for the man who manages to court his daughter. In 2013 he doubled the amount to 1 billion Hong Kong dollars for “the perfect man for his lesbian daughter”. This matter has been referred to as the "culture war in the center of Hong Kong's money nobility."

Gigi Chao is seen as a lesbian role model and campaigns for the rights of homosexuals in China . After the first "bounty" from her father, there was a demonstration in Hong Kong , where Gigi Chao and her mother appeared as speakers. The demonstration was organized by evangelical groups that campaign for the rights of minorities. The organizers said there were 50,000 participants, with the police assuming 5,000 demonstrators. Government officials also spoke out on this affair and against discrimination based on sexual orientation. Even afterwards, she marched in demonstrations for same-sex marriage, campaigns for homosexual rights and advises well-known Hong Kong figures on their coming-out plans. Gigi Chao wrote an open letter to her father in 2014 via the media asking for tolerance.

The South China Morning Post reported that Sacha Baron Cohen was working on a film project called The Lesbian that was inspired by the affair.

Private life

Gigi Chao has been in a relationship with her partner Sean Eav since 2005, who she married in France in 2012 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cecil Chao Sze-Tsung, Hong Kong Tycoon, Offers $ 65 Million To Man Who Can Woo His Lesbian Daughter . The Huffington Post of September 26, 2012 (English).
  2. ↑ Hong Kong tycoon's daughter defends sexuality in letter . BBC of January 29, 2014 (English).
  3. ↑ Tycoon's lesbian daughter Gigi Chao shakes up conservative Hong Kong . CNN of February 21, 2014 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c The lesbian millionaire daughter resisted . Tages-Anzeiger online from February 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ Eddie Luk: Same-sex talk ( memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The Standard (Hong Kong) of January 14, 2013 (English). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thestandard.com.hk
  6. ↑ Dear Daddy, you must accept I'm a lesbian: Gigi Chao pens plea in open letter to tycoon father . South China Morning Post of January 28, 2014 (English).
  7. ↑ Lesbian tycoon daughter asks father for tolerance . Die Welt online from January 29, 2014.
  8. ^ "I'm not forcing Gigi," stunned Cecil Chao says of marriage bounty . South China Morning Post, October 7, 2012.
  9. ↑ Two Danish comics to write Sacha Baron Cohen's film of Gigi Chao's story . South China Morning Post, May 10, 2013.
  10. ↑ Gigi Chao's father makes an indecent proposal . The Australian dated June 15, 2013.
  11. ↑ 'Marry my gay daughter, I'll give you £ 78m': Tycoon doubles reward for man who will marry his lesbian daughter . Metro from January 24, 2014 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Chao, Gigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 趙 式 芝 (Chinese); Zhào, Shìzhī (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese architect, daughter of a millionaire
DATE OF BIRTH 1979