It is still unknown whether this legendary sger Prce was gay, bisexual, straight, or of any other sexual orientatn.
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- INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.
- THIS GAY TEEN ROMANCE FILM IS SENDG FAR-RIGHTERS INTO A RAGG FRENZYTHE PRINCE AND THE PETULANTDISGNTLED BY THEM THE UPG UKRAIAN MOVIE “MY YOUNG PRCE,” SOME FAR-RIGHTERS HAVE RORTED TO HURLG VILE THREATS AND SULTS AT EVERYONE VOLVED THE PROJECT. ANNA NEMTSOVAUPDATED NOV. 13, 2021 4:05AM EST / PUBLISHED NOV. 13, 2021 12:16AM EST IVAN TSUPKO/REAL PICTURKYIV—A UKRAIAN FILM DIRECTOR OF ARMENIAN ORIG, 29-YEAR-OLD KHACHATUR VASILIAN, IS FACG A WAVE OF VIC ATTACKS OM PRO-RSIA POLICIANS AND NEO-NAZI THUGS ALIKE FOR HIS NEW FILM, MY YOUNG PRCE, AN ARTFUL MOVIE ABOUT A GAY TEENAGER WHO FALLS LOVE WH ANOTHER MAN.WHEN THE FILM, WHICH IS SET TO BUT 2023, WAS ANNOUNCED EARLIER THIS YEAR, VASILIAN AND HIS TEAM WERE WELL AWARE THAT THEY MIGHT FACE BACKLASH—PECIALLY OM UKRAE’S FAR-RIGHT CIRCL. WHAT HE DIDN’T EXPECT WAS THAT HIS LIFE WOULD BE THREATENED, NOT ONLY FOR BEG THE FIRST UKRAIAN DIRECTOR TO FILM MEN MAKG LOVE, BUT ALSO FOR BEG ETHNILLY ARMENIAN AND NON-SLAV. ON MONDAY, VASILIAN WAS AT A CENTRAL KYIV THEATER WHERE CROWDS OF FANS HAD GATHERED TO WATCH THE TEASER FOR HIS MOVIE. WHILE HE WAS THERE, A FLOOD OF HATEFUL MSAG, CLUDG THREATS OF RAPE AND MURR, BOMBARD VASILIAN’S INSTAGRAM. “WHILE PEOPLE AROUND ME WERE ENJOYG THE PRENTATN OF OUR NEW MOVIE ABOUT A 17-YEAR-OLD UKRAIAN MAN, WHO IS LOST NER IMMIGRATN, I WAS READG AWFUL THREATS ON MY PHONE,” THE DIRECTOR SAID AN TERVIEW WH THE DAILY BEAST.WHILE VASILIAN N’T DISCLOSE TOO MUCH ABOUT THE FILM JT YET, IS CENTERED ON THE CHARACTER OF PL, A 17-YEAR-OLD UKRAIAN OM A WEALTHY FAY WHO HAS GROWN DISILLNED WH HIS LIFE. THAT IS, UNTIL HE FALLS LOVE—AND THE OBJECT OF HIS AFFECTN IS SUBSEQUENTLY VOLVED MURR. MY YOUNG PRCE IS SET TO BUT 2023."IVAN TSUPKO/REAL PICTUR MOST OF THE HATE MSAG VASILIAN RECEIVED ARE TOO AWFUL TO BE QUOTED. A LS EXTREME EXAMPLE ON INSTAGRAM READ: “THE SMOKED ONE IS FUCKED,” HTG AT THE LOR OF VASILIAN’S SK. ANOTHER MENT SAID: “THE HOUR OF THE MORAL URT IS G FOR YOU.” ONE INSTAGRAM ER SENT AN EVEN MORE CHILLG THREAT: HE SAID THE FILM HAD OFFEND “THE CHILDREN OF CATHARSIS.”THE FAR-RIGHT TELEGRAM CHANNEL “CATHARSIS” IS KNOWN FOR ATTACKG IMMIGRANTS, NON-SLAVIC UKRAIANS, DG ADDICTS, AND LGBTQ DIVIDUALS. “THIS TELEGRAM CHANNEL REFLECTS THE RADIL VIEWS OF ALL ULTRA-RIGHT UKRAIAN GROUPS, CLUDG TRADN AND ORR, THE RIGHT SECTOR, THE BAS FOR THE FUTURE, C14 AND A NUMBER OF OTHER GROUPS. MANY OF THEM EMERGED AFTER THE 2014 EUROMAIDAN REVOLUTN,” AN EXPERT ON UKRAE’S FAR RIGHT AT ZABORONA MEDIA, POLA VERNIGOR, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I AM A FORMER BOXER, I ULD REALLY PUNCH THE THUGS FOR SUCH DIRTY MENTS.” TERRIFYGLY, CATHARSIS’ RAGG SPRE SOMETIM TRANSCEND THE REALMS OF THE TER—AND TO THE REAL WORLD.ON SATURDAY, A IEND OF ME OM CHIGO WAS PLANNG TO CELEBRATE HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY HIS HOME CY OF KYIV AT A HIP NIGHTCLUB LLED CLOSER. HIS PLANS ME TO A HALT AFTER THE CATHARSIS TELEGRAM CHANNEL MA A LL TO S MEMBERS, ASKG THEM TO ENGAGE A “CSA” AGAST “DG ERS” THAT TARGETED NIGHTCLUBS, CLUDG CLOSER.THE TELEGRAM POST BROUGHT DOZENS OF FAR-RIGHT RADILS TOGETHER. CROWDS OF THEM DRSED BLACK WALKED THE STREETS OF KYIV HOLDG A LONG BANNER THAT READ: “DEATH.” THEY SHOT FIRECRACKERS AND CHANTED, “DEATH TO THE RICH!” AND PUT A SIGN ONT OF THE CLOSER NIGHTCLUB THAT READ “NAYEM SHOP,” A RACIST REFERENCE TO MTAFA NAYEM, A RPTN-FIGHTER, JOURNALIST, AND POLICIAN OF AFGHAN ORIG WHO SERV AS UKRAE’S PUTY MISTER OF ASTCTURE.THE FOUNR OF ZABORONA NEWS MEDIA, EKATERNIA SERGATKOVA, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT ONE OF THE KEY LEARS BEHD UKRAE’S ULTRA-RIGHT MOVEMENT IS EVGEN KARAS, THE FOUNR OF THE VLENT NEO-NAZI GROUP C14, WHICH HAS BEEN ACCED OF KILLG THE EDOR--CHIEF OF A PRO-RSIAN NEWSPAPER AS WELL AS A SERI OF VLENT ATTACKS ON ROMA PEOPLE. SHE ALSO MENTNED SERGEI KOROTKYKH, KNOWN AS BOTSMAN, AN EX-MEMBER OF THE RSIAN NSS (NATNAL-SOCIALIST SOCIETY) WHO HAS BEEN ACCED OF KILLG TWO MEN ONT OF A NAZI FLAG.“THEY ARE NEO-NAZI ACTIVISTS, PATG SWASTIKAS ON THE WALLS, ATTACKG ETHNIC MORI AND LGBT [PEOPLE],” SERGATKOVA TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. ”ON THURSDAY, CATHARSIS PUBLISHED THE ADDRS VASILIAN’S INSTAGRAM ACUNT ON TELEGRAM, LEADG TO A BARRAGE OF NEW HATE MSAG SO SEVERE THAT THE DIRECTOR HAD TO MAKE HIS PUBLIC ACUNT PRIVATE.THE SCREEN WRERS AND PRODUCERS BEHD MY YOUNG PRCE BELIEVE THAT IS IMPORTANT FOR GAY MEN TO BE REPRENTED UKRAE, WHERE, ACRDG TO A RECENT SOCIAL POLL, 47 PERCENT OF POPULATN ARE TOLERANT TOWARD THE LGBTQ MUNY. "THE UPG UKRAIAN MOVIE MY YOUNG PRCE.IVAN TSUPKO/REAL PICTUR “A FEW WEEKS AGO A PRO-RSIAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER, VADIM RABOVICH, WAS THE FIRST TO CRICIZE OUR FILM FOR S LGBT THEME AND IMMEDIATELY, RSIAN PROPAGANDIST TELEVISN JOURNALIST, OLGA SKOBEYEVA, MENTNED THAT HER SHOW, MOCKG UKRAE FOR S LOVE FOR GAY MEN,” ONE OF THE PRODUCERS, REGA MARYANOVSKA-DAVIDSON, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.EARLIER THIS YEAR, MY YOUNG PRCE WON A PETN AMONG HUNDREDS OF UKRAIAN MOVIE PROPOSALS AND RECEIVED ABOUT $770,000 STATE FUNDG. BUT SHORTLY AFTER THAT, MORE THAN 3,000 PEOPLE SIGNED A PETN LLG FOR THE FUNDS TO BE REVOKED AND CRICIZG THE FILM FOR SCEN FEATURG ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN SYMBOLS.“WE WERE SPIRED BY MICHELANGELO’S PIETà, BY RENE MAGRTE’S KISSG FIGUR, WHICH SEEMED PROVOTIVE FOR OUR HATERS,” VASILIAN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I AM A FORMER BOXER, I ULD REALLY PUNCH THE THUGS FOR SUCH DIRTY MENTS,” THE DIRECTOR ADD AFTER TAKG A GLANCE AT THE HATEFUL MSAG HE RECEIVED ON INSTAGRAM. “BUT THAT ISN’T GOG TO STOP OM PRODUCG THIS FILM UKRAE, AS THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO CHANGE THE SHORT-SIGHTED PUBLIC VIEWS AND STOP ATTACKS ON LGBT,” OLEKSO GLADHEVSKY, ANOTHER PRODUCER, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.MYKHAILO PODOLYAK, A MUNITNS ADVISER WH THE PRINTIAL ADMISTRATN, ADMTED THERE WAS AN ISSUE WH TOLERANCE UKRAE AND SAID THAT RABOVICH AND THE CRICS ARE TRYG TO “DISCRED ALL ELEMENTS OF LIFE THE NTEMPORARY WTERN WORLD—LIBERAL MOCRACY AND OPEN SOCIETY,” AS WELL AS TOLERANCE.“OF URSE, UKRAE SHOULD NOT BE VOLVED ANY SORT OF CENSORSHIP AND MANUALLY MANAGE FILM PRODUCTN,” PODOLYAK TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “AND THE CURRENT ERNMENT IS NOT DOG THAT.”THE STAR ACTOR PLAYG YOUNG PL’S PART, PETER NOVSKY, SISTED THAT HE HAD NO TENTN OF OFFENDG THE FEELGS OF ORTHODOX BELIEVERS.“I SAY THIS AS A BELIEVER. ON THE NTRARY, OUR FILM FEATUR THE PLITED ROAD TO GOD OF A MAN WHO GENUELY WANTS TO FD HIS WAY,” NOVSKY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “THE PETN SIGNED BY 3,000 PEOPLE AGAST OUR FILM MONSTRAT THAT THERE IS A PAFUL SPOT, BUT FOR A UNTRY WH A 40 LN-PERSON POPULATN, THIS IS NOT A HUGE NUMBER.” ANNA NEMTSOVA
- WAS PRCE GAY? HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.
He told a Gujarati daily newspaper about his sexualy 2006, makg him the first openly gay morn monarch the world — but then his fay quickly disowned him.
THIS GAY TEEN ROMANCE FILM IS SENDG FAR-RIGHTERS INTO A RAGG FRENZYTHE PRINCE AND THE PETULANTDISGNTLED BY THEM THE UPG UKRAIAN MOVIE “MY YOUNG PRCE,” SOME FAR-RIGHTERS HAVE RORTED TO HURLG VILE THREATS AND SULTS AT EVERYONE VOLVED THE PROJECT. ANNA NEMTSOVAUPDATED NOV. 13, 2021 4:05AM EST / PUBLISHED NOV. 13, 2021 12:16AM EST IVAN TSUPKO/REAL PICTURKYIV—A UKRAIAN FILM DIRECTOR OF ARMENIAN ORIG, 29-YEAR-OLD KHACHATUR VASILIAN, IS FACG A WAVE OF VIC ATTACKS OM PRO-RSIA POLICIANS AND NEO-NAZI THUGS ALIKE FOR HIS NEW FILM, MY YOUNG PRCE, AN ARTFUL MOVIE ABOUT A GAY TEENAGER WHO FALLS LOVE WH ANOTHER MAN.WHEN THE FILM, WHICH IS SET TO BUT 2023, WAS ANNOUNCED EARLIER THIS YEAR, VASILIAN AND HIS TEAM WERE WELL AWARE THAT THEY MIGHT FACE BACKLASH—PECIALLY OM UKRAE’S FAR-RIGHT CIRCL. WHAT HE DIDN’T EXPECT WAS THAT HIS LIFE WOULD BE THREATENED, NOT ONLY FOR BEG THE FIRST UKRAIAN DIRECTOR TO FILM MEN MAKG LOVE, BUT ALSO FOR BEG ETHNILLY ARMENIAN AND NON-SLAV. ON MONDAY, VASILIAN WAS AT A CENTRAL KYIV THEATER WHERE CROWDS OF FANS HAD GATHERED TO WATCH THE TEASER FOR HIS MOVIE. WHILE HE WAS THERE, A FLOOD OF HATEFUL MSAG, CLUDG THREATS OF RAPE AND MURR, BOMBARD VASILIAN’S INSTAGRAM. “WHILE PEOPLE AROUND ME WERE ENJOYG THE PRENTATN OF OUR NEW MOVIE ABOUT A 17-YEAR-OLD UKRAIAN MAN, WHO IS LOST NER IMMIGRATN, I WAS READG AWFUL THREATS ON MY PHONE,” THE DIRECTOR SAID AN TERVIEW WH THE DAILY BEAST.WHILE VASILIAN N’T DISCLOSE TOO MUCH ABOUT THE FILM JT YET, IS CENTERED ON THE CHARACTER OF PL, A 17-YEAR-OLD UKRAIAN OM A WEALTHY FAY WHO HAS GROWN DISILLNED WH HIS LIFE. THAT IS, UNTIL HE FALLS LOVE—AND THE OBJECT OF HIS AFFECTN IS SUBSEQUENTLY VOLVED MURR. MY YOUNG PRCE IS SET TO BUT 2023."IVAN TSUPKO/REAL PICTUR MOST OF THE HATE MSAG VASILIAN RECEIVED ARE TOO AWFUL TO BE QUOTED. A LS EXTREME EXAMPLE ON INSTAGRAM READ: “THE SMOKED ONE IS FUCKED,” HTG AT THE LOR OF VASILIAN’S SK. ANOTHER MENT SAID: “THE HOUR OF THE MORAL URT IS G FOR YOU.” ONE INSTAGRAM ER SENT AN EVEN MORE CHILLG THREAT: HE SAID THE FILM HAD OFFEND “THE CHILDREN OF CATHARSIS.”THE FAR-RIGHT TELEGRAM CHANNEL “CATHARSIS” IS KNOWN FOR ATTACKG IMMIGRANTS, NON-SLAVIC UKRAIANS, DG ADDICTS, AND LGBTQ DIVIDUALS. “THIS TELEGRAM CHANNEL REFLECTS THE RADIL VIEWS OF ALL ULTRA-RIGHT UKRAIAN GROUPS, CLUDG TRADN AND ORR, THE RIGHT SECTOR, THE BAS FOR THE FUTURE, C14 AND A NUMBER OF OTHER GROUPS. MANY OF THEM EMERGED AFTER THE 2014 EUROMAIDAN REVOLUTN,” AN EXPERT ON UKRAE’S FAR RIGHT AT ZABORONA MEDIA, POLA VERNIGOR, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I AM A FORMER BOXER, I ULD REALLY PUNCH THE THUGS FOR SUCH DIRTY MENTS.” TERRIFYGLY, CATHARSIS’ RAGG SPRE SOMETIM TRANSCEND THE REALMS OF THE TER—AND TO THE REAL WORLD.ON SATURDAY, A IEND OF ME OM CHIGO WAS PLANNG TO CELEBRATE HIS 60TH BIRTHDAY HIS HOME CY OF KYIV AT A HIP NIGHTCLUB LLED CLOSER. HIS PLANS ME TO A HALT AFTER THE CATHARSIS TELEGRAM CHANNEL MA A LL TO S MEMBERS, ASKG THEM TO ENGAGE A “CSA” AGAST “DG ERS” THAT TARGETED NIGHTCLUBS, CLUDG CLOSER.THE TELEGRAM POST BROUGHT DOZENS OF FAR-RIGHT RADILS TOGETHER. CROWDS OF THEM DRSED BLACK WALKED THE STREETS OF KYIV HOLDG A LONG BANNER THAT READ: “DEATH.” THEY SHOT FIRECRACKERS AND CHANTED, “DEATH TO THE RICH!” AND PUT A SIGN ONT OF THE CLOSER NIGHTCLUB THAT READ “NAYEM SHOP,” A RACIST REFERENCE TO MTAFA NAYEM, A RPTN-FIGHTER, JOURNALIST, AND POLICIAN OF AFGHAN ORIG WHO SERV AS UKRAE’S PUTY MISTER OF ASTCTURE.THE FOUNR OF ZABORONA NEWS MEDIA, EKATERNIA SERGATKOVA, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT ONE OF THE KEY LEARS BEHD UKRAE’S ULTRA-RIGHT MOVEMENT IS EVGEN KARAS, THE FOUNR OF THE VLENT NEO-NAZI GROUP C14, WHICH HAS BEEN ACCED OF KILLG THE EDOR--CHIEF OF A PRO-RSIAN NEWSPAPER AS WELL AS A SERI OF VLENT ATTACKS ON ROMA PEOPLE. SHE ALSO MENTNED SERGEI KOROTKYKH, KNOWN AS BOTSMAN, AN EX-MEMBER OF THE RSIAN NSS (NATNAL-SOCIALIST SOCIETY) WHO HAS BEEN ACCED OF KILLG TWO MEN ONT OF A NAZI FLAG.“THEY ARE NEO-NAZI ACTIVISTS, PATG SWASTIKAS ON THE WALLS, ATTACKG ETHNIC MORI AND LGBT [PEOPLE],” SERGATKOVA TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. ”ON THURSDAY, CATHARSIS PUBLISHED THE ADDRS VASILIAN’S INSTAGRAM ACUNT ON TELEGRAM, LEADG TO A BARRAGE OF NEW HATE MSAG SO SEVERE THAT THE DIRECTOR HAD TO MAKE HIS PUBLIC ACUNT PRIVATE.THE SCREEN WRERS AND PRODUCERS BEHD MY YOUNG PRCE BELIEVE THAT IS IMPORTANT FOR GAY MEN TO BE REPRENTED UKRAE, WHERE, ACRDG TO A RECENT SOCIAL POLL, 47 PERCENT OF POPULATN ARE TOLERANT TOWARD THE LGBTQ MUNY. "THE UPG UKRAIAN MOVIE MY YOUNG PRCE.IVAN TSUPKO/REAL PICTUR “A FEW WEEKS AGO A PRO-RSIAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER, VADIM RABOVICH, WAS THE FIRST TO CRICIZE OUR FILM FOR S LGBT THEME AND IMMEDIATELY, RSIAN PROPAGANDIST TELEVISN JOURNALIST, OLGA SKOBEYEVA, MENTNED THAT HER SHOW, MOCKG UKRAE FOR S LOVE FOR GAY MEN,” ONE OF THE PRODUCERS, REGA MARYANOVSKA-DAVIDSON, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.EARLIER THIS YEAR, MY YOUNG PRCE WON A PETN AMONG HUNDREDS OF UKRAIAN MOVIE PROPOSALS AND RECEIVED ABOUT $770,000 STATE FUNDG. BUT SHORTLY AFTER THAT, MORE THAN 3,000 PEOPLE SIGNED A PETN LLG FOR THE FUNDS TO BE REVOKED AND CRICIZG THE FILM FOR SCEN FEATURG ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN SYMBOLS.“WE WERE SPIRED BY MICHELANGELO’S PIETà, BY RENE MAGRTE’S KISSG FIGUR, WHICH SEEMED PROVOTIVE FOR OUR HATERS,” VASILIAN TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “I AM A FORMER BOXER, I ULD REALLY PUNCH THE THUGS FOR SUCH DIRTY MENTS,” THE DIRECTOR ADD AFTER TAKG A GLANCE AT THE HATEFUL MSAG HE RECEIVED ON INSTAGRAM. “BUT THAT ISN’T GOG TO STOP OM PRODUCG THIS FILM UKRAE, AS THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO CHANGE THE SHORT-SIGHTED PUBLIC VIEWS AND STOP ATTACKS ON LGBT,” OLEKSO GLADHEVSKY, ANOTHER PRODUCER, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST.MYKHAILO PODOLYAK, A MUNITNS ADVISER WH THE PRINTIAL ADMISTRATN, ADMTED THERE WAS AN ISSUE WH TOLERANCE UKRAE AND SAID THAT RABOVICH AND THE CRICS ARE TRYG TO “DISCRED ALL ELEMENTS OF LIFE THE NTEMPORARY WTERN WORLD—LIBERAL MOCRACY AND OPEN SOCIETY,” AS WELL AS TOLERANCE.“OF URSE, UKRAE SHOULD NOT BE VOLVED ANY SORT OF CENSORSHIP AND MANUALLY MANAGE FILM PRODUCTN,” PODOLYAK TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “AND THE CURRENT ERNMENT IS NOT DOG THAT.”THE STAR ACTOR PLAYG YOUNG PL’S PART, PETER NOVSKY, SISTED THAT HE HAD NO TENTN OF OFFENDG THE FEELGS OF ORTHODOX BELIEVERS.“I SAY THIS AS A BELIEVER. ON THE NTRARY, OUR FILM FEATUR THE PLITED ROAD TO GOD OF A MAN WHO GENUELY WANTS TO FD HIS WAY,” NOVSKY TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “THE PETN SIGNED BY 3,000 PEOPLE AGAST OUR FILM MONSTRAT THAT THERE IS A PAFUL SPOT, BUT FOR A UNTRY WH A 40 LN-PERSON POPULATN, THIS IS NOT A HUGE NUMBER.” ANNA NEMTSOVA
Style was at the fore of the Prce’s life and he later published two books about fashn and terr sign: The Power Look 1978 and a follow-up, The Power Look at Home: Deratg for Men, Fürstenberg had a well-known fondns for gay nightlife. In 2006, Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil me out to a lol newspaper, beg India's first openly gay prce.
WAS PRCE GAY? HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HIS SEXUALY
Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil, the 39th direct scendant of India's Gohil Raut dynasty, knew he was gay at age 12.
But he uld only live his tth three s publicly me out an terview to a lol newspaper 2006, beg the first openly gay royal the untry. He was 41 at the 2018, homosexualy was illegal India, punishable unr Sectn 377, a lonial-era dranian law that mand up to life imprisonment for anyone mtg sexual acts "agast the orr of nature.