Hong Kong’s Big Love Alliance, a coalition of LGBT rights campaigners, held a ‘bed-in’ for same-sex love in a hotel room earlier this week.

Lesbian socialite Gigi Chao booked a room at five-star Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay for an art exhibition and political statement inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s ‘bed-in’ for peace in 1969.

The Give Love a Chance exhibition, part of Hong Kong Contemporary art fair, was open from Saturday to Monday this week (25 to 27 May). Artists Beryl Foo, Mak Ying Tung, Vivian Ho and Yan Yung exhibited and sold work to raise money for Big Love Alliance.

Visitors also got the chance to send postcards to their loved-ones and old buy Give Love a Chance tote bags.

A statement from Big Love Alliance said the event aimed ‘to promote the spirit of love and peace… and equality’. The exhibition included a placard that said ‘Don’t hate what you don’t understand’.

Big Love Alliance was formed by gay popstars Anthony Wong and Denise Ho and legislative council members Cyd Ho and Raymond Chan in January in response to anti-gay rights demonstrations.

Watch musicians Ming Gor (Wong) and Ho Shan singing John Lennon songs in the Give Love a Chance exhibition bed here: