Filmmaker Quentin Lee of QueerComrades.com has written and directed a pro-LGBT PSA for mobile devices, and it’s actually really great. The two-minute video tells the story of a lesbian and a gay man who plan to get married to ease the pressure from their parents, who don’t approve of their gayness. The “problem” is that the gay man’s mother knows he’s gay and doesn’t want him to live a lie.

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Gigi Chao, right, with partner Sean.

BY TRISH BENDIX
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You might not know Gigi Chao by name, but you most likely heard about her not so long ago when her father promised to make a millionaire of a man who could turn his lesbian daughter straight. 33-year-old Gigi talked with “The Hong Kong Tatler” recently about being outed by her dad very publicly, as he is a well-known businessman in China, and the offer of $500 million to marry his beautiful daughter that didn’t fall on deaf ears. Luckily, Gigi knows who she is and that nothing will change her, exuding a graceful confidence in her cover story interview.

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A Hong Kong billionaire has offered up a staggering, if bizarre, “marriage bounty” to any man who can woo his married lesbian daughter.

Business Insider reports that Cecil Chao Sze-tsung publicly announced the $65 million “reward” after hearing that Gigi Chao had eloped with her long-term female partner to France.

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The latest edition of one of China’s most authoritative dictionaries contains a glaring omission. Gay rights advocates say that, amid the 69,000 entries, 13,000 Chinese characters and more than 3,000 new phrases in the newly revised sixth edition of the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary, a definition for a commonly used word for “gay” in Chinese has been excluded.

The word in question, tongzhi, is a colloquial term equivalent to “gay.” As Ding Xueliang, a social sciences professor from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, tells the BBC, tongzhi has another definition, “comrade,” with political associations:

“The use of ‘tongzhi’ to describe homosexuality started in Hong Kong and Taiwan to make fun of the mainland’s communist terminology because Chinese leaders address each other using ‘tongzhi’ meaning ‘comrade’ – for instance, ‘Hu Jintao tongzhi’ or ‘Wen Jiabao tongzhi.’

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In a quiet reversal of stigmatizing legislation, China lifted a law which barred homosexual women from donating blood this week. The original legislation, which was enacted in 1998, prohibited anyone who was sexually active with the same sex from giving blood, CNN reports.

The ban still applies to men who are sexually active with other men. In this regard, China is not far different from the United States and the United Kingdom, which both have prohibitions in place against men donating blood who are sexually active with other men.

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