However with Gigi growing up and Gaston's current mistress being caught up in scandal can these two escape the inevitable roles their two worlds seemed determine to place on them and perhaps explore the true feelings that lie beneath their friendship? All this takes place under the eye of Honore Lachaille (played by the legendary Maurice Chevalier) Gaston's charming, cheery and youthful Uncle who doubles as the movie's narrator and Gaston's mentor in the story. Her respite from her lessons comes in the form of her good friend Gaston - a wealthy aristocrat and playboy who is bored by the decadent but superficial world he inhabits. Both try to teach her the ways of good manners, first class diamonds and rolling cigars however the vivacious and idealistic tomboy is resistant. She is mentored by her kind but firm Grandmother who has raised her and her glamorous, flamboyant Aunt Alicia. Gorgeous, a Canadian with nearly three million YouTube followers who documented her transition from male to female on the platform in 2014, said trans people needed a higher profile in the media.Gigi, living in the Belle Époque era of Paris, is training to be a courtesan- a highly educated and cultured woman who will become a society darling and mistress to wealthy men. it normalizes it to people that don’t see it as normal,” added Nats, who runs lifestyle brand Strike Oil, a nod to the origin of her family’s fortune. “When you see someone who’s transgender, who’s gay (or) in a gay or lesbian relationship. “Ads to me are more important because that is just real life replicated and shown back to people,” said Nats, citing a Gillette advert by Procter & Gamble last year that featured a father helping his transgender son shave for the first time. His sister, with whom he shares a design studio in Los Angeles, said increasing the visibility of LGBT+ people in advertising was even more important. just part of life like having a white person or an Asian person in a movie,” said August. “It is super important to have a movie that incorporates an LGBT character that isn’t the storyline, that isn’t the plot, that isn’t the trend. The Gettys’ activism began with Ariadne, who sits on the board of advocacy group GLAAD to which the Ariadne Getty Foundation pledged $15 million in 2018 to push for stories of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to feature more on TV and in films. We educate people with our story, and speak in front of cameras reaching millions of people,” Gigi Gorgeous - the professional name of Giselle Lazzarato - told the Thomson Reuters Foundation “We schlep our arses to town every day and we sit on panels. In an interview at the Gettys’ chalet overlooking the upmarket ski resort, Gigi Gorgeous said it was “beyond important” to get more world leaders and companies to address LGBT+ rights and hoped their presence at Davos would do that. 24, there were two official panels and various side events. Paul Getty, has become a leading LGBT+ activist since her two children Natalia, 27 - who is known as Nats - and August, 24, both came out as gay in their teens.įor years LGBT+ discussions were not included at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in Davos but that began to change with a panel in 2016 and at the 2020 meeting, that ended Jan. The couple, who married in a lavish ceremony in California last July, have teamed up with Nat’s fashion designer brother August and their mother, Ariadne Getty, to push for LGBT+ equality from within the Getty oil dynasty.Īriadne Getty, granddaughter of billionaire oil tycoon J. DAVOS, Switzerland (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gay power couple Gigi Gorgeous, a transgender YouTube star, and her wife Nats Getty are clear about why they were in Davos in the Swiss Alps for the annual meeting of the global elite - to ensure LGBT+ rights were on the agenda.
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