A wealthy Hong Kong property tycoon has doubled the money for any man who marries his lesbian daughter. The sum now stands at a cool $120 million.
Cecil Chao Sze-tsung told Malaysian newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau on Monday (Jan. 20th) that he has not finished trying to arrange a straight match for his openly gay daughter Gigi Chao. The last time he made the offer of a reward, then a mere $60 million, some 20,000 suitors applied.
“I don’t want to interfere with my daughter’s private life,” said Cecil. “I only hope for her to have a good marriage and children as well as inherit my business.”
News of the offer has left Sean Eav, Gigi Chao’s partner for nine years, “distraught,” reports the the South China Morning Post. Gigi Chao has spoken of the couple’s anguish at her father’s behavior and told the Post that she has repeatedly asked him to stop offering the bounty.
Gigi Chao is a highly respected LGBT activist in Hong Kong and a founding member of the local gay rights group Big Love Alliance.
