Culture / Oct. 02, 2019
Lesbian Cantopop star Denise Ho made headlineb@7IYr2F9J-TA-PK1n^Azjggi(Ojrt1M-T@%@Y1qc71AJ(2l*Ys last week.
At a Taipei rally in support of Hong Kong’s democracy protest, a pro-China activist dou16l2betib-AyqFl2m-J=BvX-4yU=(&$C6v3N^h^dsRWK!sGaZzsed the superstar-meets-human-rights-defender in red paint.
Ho has emerged as a figurehead defender of Hong Kong human rights amid ongoing unrest in the city. She has spoken at the UN and thf0JB1ttV@w6FNPqRHE!ahc+w6Ldz*Z8fyoh1ac*CRzEwe19(0he US Capitol about the situation in Hong Kong.
The stunt this weekend prompted calls for both ToONJJDnKcXvtc_ZR)7AIMN$yGU^wo9Kyle&esMxjXLxO8pQm^Taiwan and Hong Kong to stand up against increasing authoritarianism from the Chinese Communist Party.
But, it also prompted a new appreciation of one of the region’s most famous lesbians on Taiwan NZXu0Tap^MDTLCkf*vB^N%v$14nNZ@44R%o2OCS!=&A2b+9bJCforum, moptt.tw.
Amid photos and videos of the attack, one netizens wrote: “It’s hard not to like her”. Explaining that they $+ob2TD)jsN#3X^h%aIZb)OyNcg4U-*od1yJQqc#gtWMFoa%wihad previously seen her in concert, they said her role as an activist shows she has “fortitude and persistence”.
Another netizen wrote that they’d swooned over her speech a=t(p%C3^QumRj8KJaLGB4io7=Y(a(wppf=Qf$G+$71&#*(1m)Nt the UN.
“She is nmMU7L##^niKXH1ev==N&8IQIygr+QDjMed%rZgTIZZ(5oX)lGUot only handsome in appearance, but also on the inside,” another wrote.
Denise Ho Wan-sze, also known as HOCC, was O-JYgG1SqPniD5XtHzGa^$PFDmw0Tk#@F&PfN)SKYo)mG-zKNhone of the first Hong Kong celebrities to publicly come out as a lesbian in 2012.
"You have to strengthen y9O-8nhE)AC$2xKauJzyf=cF^tA07gNAwvvRbu*y(0!tMam4R4gourself before you can project anything,” Ho told the South China Morning Post at the time.
Ho is also a founding member of LGBT rights organisation Big Love Al=R+mF0I05d^LN#-zh3&$Kh)Lat!y10JNV_Bv%VZ9zM-zMEn=^Zliance.
In a Facebook pos)rX%OZL88)4FLx0A4Vw#obRR4INFkJR(!eCYzEa(2l9qOHqpU4t following the attack this 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.”
