Lesbian Can0UBTOly$)nSzS1)l1WQQlO8IQMl=S$ltKVhG&SN&%FYE7@jDw6topop star Denise Ho made headlines last week.

At a Taipei rally in s1mZh7dyxKC2Yrv$*pg6%G-bFtLtFp1Ca^Y(vLU0m5#+laz=XYoupport of Hong Kong’s democracy protest, a pro-China activist doused the superstar-meets-human-rights-defender in red paint.

Ho has emerged as a figurehealW2&dgrJElO9X%B@tc$s7sg&W$DhHTg2xoX^jZH_@K036DjzQ%d defender of Hong Kong human rights amid ongoing unrest in the city. She has spoken at the UN and the US Capitol about the situation in Hong Kong.

The stunt this weekend prompted calls for both TaiwHCgks-L@YJ^@9YBicMSgKK3Bwcdbs6iY3H5O(y@JH0FCIKLXIZan 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 H-1=zZQqGoko3FRf+IIa$6QYDz#lw9i6HFgl8Yo7s3WRQ$ZFi=on Taiwan forum, moptt.tw.

Amid phot%2lJR@Q(h2JkpQtI&d_1C-huGvF2xv(VR#4bv-sgkxjt3ONvwtos and videos of the attack, 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 that they’d swooned over IhJU6jOTLyc0Eb5q9NjzEt6y48bK3o^J!fjvKhSr-mjQvkzJG#her speech at the UN.

“She is not only handsome in appearance, but als51n#Y07riyfRRaT8G^YzZikWXMRv5Gjvqdv^i^Dkj5G&Nj+Z)uo on the inside,” another wrote.

Denise Ho Wan-sze, also known as HOCC, was o@QsGbF6h$Qw+lQxKQRVY+nLp7Q+du@4w2!wIZY#Ms=lOg&ImB=ne of the first Hong Kong celebrities to publicly come out as a lesbian in 2012.

"You have to strengthe&6u)P2&*8KM*#GR@_lCWxvpZp&p&52^iBla3#%FCnxj4$KVlFxn yourself 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 AlYJ=+h6fXUfW8k_M_U(aUu%my97mVtUvtQKm#(kd@OYomcUhpMOliance.

In a Facebook post following the attack this weekend, Ho said: “So^v(j)mCZ5G%qpX!Q^vcD^r*D=INLy4b4g@4&z-$9U&7TkWJRThis 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.”
 

Yi-min lives alone with her son, as her husband works away from home. She meets Tinting at a wedding, a girl she once had some history with back in highschool. Back in the days, Yi-min denied their relationship out of fear of living as a lesbian woman, but meeting Tingting again reignites something in her, a possibility to escape her dull married life. Now that Taiwan has leagalised same-sex marrige, can Yi-min find the courage to admit her feelings? With the future of a child in her hands and under the pressure of her husband, her family-in-law and her own family, will she follow through with this new chapter in her life?