Gigi Chao (right) and her partner "Since Dad thinks it's so easy for me to switch from gay to straight, I should just leave it for him to demonstrate,” the lesbian daughter of a billionaire property tycoon has responded to his unending public attempts to find her a husband. “I think I'll marry a man when he marries a man," Gigi Chao says. The daughter of Hong Kong shipping magnate and property developer Cecil Chao Sze-tsung has written an open letter to her father, asking him to accept her for who she is. He hasn’t let up since his 2012 offer of a reward to any man who could persuade his daughter to marry him, despite the fact she had already entered into a civil partnership with her partner of almost nine years, Sean Eav. He’s since doubled the amount of the reward to HK$1billion after his first offer attracted 20,000 unsuccessful responses. In a letter to her father published by two Hong Kong newspapers, Ms Chao says she understands it may be "difficult for you to understand, let alone accept" how she could be romantically attracted to a woman. “It would mean the world to me if you could just not be so terrified of her, and treat her like a normal, dignified human being." She adds: "I'm sorry to mislead you to think I was only in a lesbian relationship because there was a shortage of good, suitable men in Hong Kong. "There are plenty of good men, they are just not for me." Ms Chao is an executive director of luxury property development company and has become a lgbti rights activist since her father’s reward story hit.
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First published: Thursday, 30th January 2014 - 9:10am