Was Prce Gay? Here’s What We Know About His Sexualy

Contents:

• INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.
• DISNEY ANNOUNC 'PRC,' FIRST FILM WH OPENLY GAY CHARACTERS.
• 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.

In 2006, Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil me out to a lol newspaper, beg India's first openly gay prce. 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. He turned the palace grounds he was once thrown out of to a shelter for the LGBTQ+ had expected the homophobic uproar.

The society he grew up around was strongly nserative, and the untry he grew up didn't legally regnize gay rights. Many around him believed that homosexualy was a mental disorr.

DISNEY ANNOUNC 'PRC,' FIRST FILM WH OPENLY GAY CHARACTERS.

Much of his advocy for LGBTQ+ rights ntu to primarily revolve around cimatg the stigma around homosexualy. In 2018, the year that the Supreme Court crimalized homosexualy a landmark lg, Gohil opened up a 15-acre palace grounds to build a shelter for vulnerable members of the muny.

"They thought was impossible that I uld be gay bee my cultural upbrgg had been so rich. 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. 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, 1980.Von Fürstenberg had a well-known fondns for gay nightlife.

WAS PRCE GAY? HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HIS SEXUALY

Prce: Gay In, Whether He Wanted to Be or NotHow to rencile his later nservatism wh the sexual liberatn he stood for earlier life?Mike Blake / RtersIn 2008, the New Yorker wrer Claire Hoffman asked Prce what he thought of social issu like gay marriage and abortn. The “homophobe” label attached self to him, acpanied by the bter shock of many fans.

“The pop star who ma his name on his effete, androgyno ‘Is he GAY or not?’ persona—now he hat .” Reprentativ for Prce would tell Perez Hilton that the New Yorker misquoted him: “What His Purplens actually did was gture to the Bible and said he follows what teach, referrg maly to the parts about lovg everyone and reag om judgment,” Hilton wrote. But the years after that saw Prce actively avoid talkg about gay rights, and some wrers saw subtle homophobia a few of his later lyrics and actns.The qutn of how someone whose art once seemed to preach the very ia of “stickg wherever and dog wh whatever”—wh magaz, etc.—uld bee so nservative is both fundamentally unanswerable and very simple.

A Prce.Stewart go on to wre about how even though Prce’s lyril viewpot was almost always heterosexual—his songs were about men wantg women and women wantg men—he was unaaid of beg lled feme, gay, or perverted.