Lesbian Cantopop star Denise Ho maOPUoYxw5tstysM0hS!CFO+xd5u=@+wC*MyR_I-$8wl*Jc-CIF7de headlines last week.

At a Taipei rally in support of Hong Kong’s democracy protest, IjeQDX#T#d%B9lg7_pliisDeoL4fKwuBVnKVoO0ym*oIKjXWvIa pro-China activist doused the superstar-meets-human-rights-defender in red paint.

Ho has emerged as a figurehead defender of Hong Kong human rights amid ongoing unrest in the city. She has spoken at the UN and the US Capitol about the situ%C5*idZS3^-NA_F)JmRUMe7Bpf(o9l($eECyQKU^jJKe&(Jqc2ation in Hong Kong.

The stunt this wee6yX&VUWvIOZ1e@F6KUIxcb^))AW_x8WRay+=j%cnRU5g_imK)(kend prompted calls for both Taiwan and Hong Kong to stand up against increasing authoritarianism from the Chinese Communist Party.

But, it also prompted a new appreciation of one Zcr(IHhLmQaGP_0!sAc=vJLlR)dGp6JWcrkekD2(Tr+WGkfl99of the region’s most famous lesbians on Taiwan forum, moptt.tw.

Amid photos and videos of the attack,xTzbH#pxH+)*9E!y@YF6g-(stiS(jSM=(*tZE0W2Fr10#Lf!K# one netizens wrote: “It’s hard not to like her”. Explaining that they had previously seen her in concert, they said her role as an activist shows she has “fortitude and persistence”.

Another netizen wrote thatift*a%-cI0NKs9ZJ-I3A4URb=DASSlZYkQd#EN=5s3!_PQ-np- they’d swooned over her speech at the UN.

“She is not only handsome!r0eYTJtaGJm%*u_UK#yY3RWaY@g%bokbooMtQENOr7MrVa9+o in appearance, but also on the inside,” another wrote.

Denise Ho Wan-sze, also known as HOCC, was one of the first Hong Kong celebrities to pub(xrDytNms#Q5zHPdS10gTniFrAw6RLim-f56DE)N%I*T=1ngM-licly come out as a lesbian in 2012.

"You have to strengthen yourself before you can project HXT8+l4Cm99%c-2sP+-V=u9a3A#1Z0jTt9o&k0Su(V&gl8jV1zanything,” Ho told the South China Morning Post at the time.

Ho is also a founding member of LGBT rights organisation Big LoVtPQQj9s=b5Aib8H5)Xdl1NJ_8(vG08GYrCUJb0wG-c7*$qhwHve Alliance.

In a Facebook post following the attack this)(pSkO0pZJf_e6F-B0L_07@iQO^fum&lKuvv$^+8wwq%=4W0)g weekend, Ho said: “This is just the tip of the iceberg.”

"Every day in Hong Kong, there are countless students, citizens and members who are attacked and beaten by the police.”