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. “Any way that you can increase visibility of the LGBTQ community expands the rainbow flag here at Davos.” “For us it is part of our life, part of our DNA and it will be a constant vehicle and movement for us,” said August, who has his own haute couture fashion label August Getty Atelier. Globally same-sex relations remain illegal in about 70 countries. Sitting side-by-side on a sofa in the chalet’s living room, Gigi and the Getty siblings talked about the need to up the pressure on those making decisions on LGBT inclusion and laws. and it’s fabulous for our community,” she added, wearing a huge furry magenta hat and sipping an expresso martini. “It’s really nice Davos in general is taking us in little by little and it is growing. 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, Jan 25 (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. There are fine lines by Colette though "we 're not ordinary people!-Who are they? -They are married " and a funny "lesson in jewels". It is somewhat better than Minnelli's remake : a musical,none of the songs is memorable and Maurice Chevalier is as unbearable as Jean Tissier. I must confess I do not like Gigi's story ,I cannot feel "the coquettish child who develops into a warm ,loving woman" this is old hat stuff ,straight from the Ark. You can hardly call "Gigi" woman's lib: a young girl trained by her aunt to be a courtezan ,two men who are not particularly handsome,even French buck Frank Villard Audry will be used with better results in Sartre 's "Huis Clos". Jacqueline Audry was the first real female French director in history some will argue and say the Germaine Dulac and Alice Guy came before but it was in the silent age and Audry was the first modern woman Metteuse En Scene ,ten years before Agnes Varda both Audry and Varda were interested in woman 's psychology both were sometimes ambiguous though. to shield her eyes from the klieg lights ,and dramatically pointed at Audrey (Hepburn) "Voilà ,she said.That's my Gigi! (Diana Maychicks ,A.H.,an intimate portrait) It was not to be Hepburn told writer Colette she could not act,could never play a leading act and finally they cast new-comer Danielle Delorme as Gigi.
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