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Contents:

• INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.
• FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE SPEAKS OUT ON MISSN TO END CONVERSN THERAPY: 'I HAVE TO KEEP FIGHTG'
• IN INDIA, A GAY PRCE’S COMG OUT EARNS ACLAS, AND ENEMI
• PRCE: GAY IN, WHETHER HE WANTED TO BE OR NOT
• GAY SDI PRCE PICTURED HAPPILY WH THE MANSERVANT HE BEAT TO ATH
• DISNEY ANNOUNC 'PRC,' FIRST FILM WH OPENLY GAY CHARACTERS.
• THE WCHER STAR HUGH SKNER STRS SIGNIFINCE OF PLAYG GAY ROLE HUGE FANTASY SHOW AS PRCE RADOVID MAK RIVETG SEASON 3 BUT
• WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE OPENS HIS PALACE DOORS TO INDIAN LGBT COMMUNY
• EDOR’S COLUMN: THE POSSIBILI LOST TO A DEAD GAY PRCE
• THE FIRST GAY PRCE EVER IS HERE AND HE SEEMS PRETTY AWOME

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.

FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE SPEAKS OUT ON MISSN TO END CONVERSN THERAPY: 'I HAVE TO KEEP FIGHTG'

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.

IN INDIA, A GAY PRCE’S COMG OUT EARNS ACLAS, AND ENEMI

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.

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.

PRCE: GAY IN, WHETHER HE WANTED TO BE OR NOT

"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.

GAY SDI PRCE PICTURED HAPPILY WH THE MANSERVANT HE BEAT TO ATH

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. Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil me out 2006 when homosexualy India was still illegal.

Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil of India is speakg out agast gay nversn therapy, openg up about his own subjectn to electroshock treatments and other practic an effort to fd a "cure" for his sexualy.

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

The 56-year-old prce, who me out 2006 and is believed to be the world's first openly gay royal, is fightg for a ban on the practice of nversn therapy India, where homosexualy was illegal until 2018. When Prce Manvendra told his parents that he was gay 2002, "They thought was impossible that I uld be gay bee my cultural upbrgg had been so rich. Manvendra, who married his hband 2013 after a failed arranged marriage wh a woman, relled how his untry reacted when he me out as gay, cludg his parents publicly disowng him.

1, 2020NEW DELHI — Born to a royal fay that once led the kgdom of Raipla India, he was raised the fay’s palac and mansns and was beg groomed to take over a dynasty that go back 600 then he gave an terview that prompted his mother to disown him and set off protts his hometown, where he was burned g out as gay that 2006 terview, Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil has faced a torrent of bullyg and threats, and was dishered by his fay for a he has also earned global aclas for his L. Advocy, beg one of the few gay-rights activists the world wh such royal part of his efforts, Prce Manvendra, 55, has appeared on “The Oprah Wey Show” three tim, swapped life stori wh Kris Jenner on “Keepg Up Wh the Kardashians” and is workg to tablish a shelter for L.

Among gay Manvendra and his hband, Andre Richardson, have spent the last few months lockdown gettg the shelter ready. ShutterstockWhen the prce shared that he was gay that ont-page newspaper terview 14 years ago, created a storm of mostly negative publicy.

THE WCHER STAR HUGH SKNER STRS SIGNIFINCE OF PLAYG GAY ROLE HUGE FANTASY SHOW AS PRCE RADOVID MAK RIVETG SEASON 3 BUT

Beg gay was a crimal offense India unr the archaic Brish law effect at the time. ”Beg gay was not a possibily that ever crossed his md, he said, bee he knew nothg about . I saw an article about Ashok Row Kavi and his gay magaze Bombay Dost.

I cid to get touch wh him and ask him if I uld possibly be gay, ” he Kavi is a father of India’s gay-rights movement. In 1977, he me out publicly and went on to found Bombay Dost, India’s first gay magaze, 1990.

He found the Humsafar Tst, the first group to provi health servic and advocy for gay men, Kavi troduced Prce Manvendra to other people the muny and traed him as a unselor. He said the prce quietly fund the first telephone help le for gay people 2000, wh Mr.

WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE OPENS HIS PALACE DOORS TO INDIAN LGBT COMMUNY

Kavi’s enuragement, the prce started the Lakshya Tst Gujarat to help the gay muny work was fulfillg, but as a closeted gay man, the prce said, beme creasgly difficult to do the advocy work need for Lakshya. ’”But every doctor his parents nsulted told them the same thg — homosexualy was not a disease or a mental disorr. ” Loke for The New York TimOver the past 14 years, the once-shy royal has grown acctomed to the spotlight and bee a vol activist for the gay rights movement.

” Loke for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 9 of the New York edn wh the headle: In India, a Prce Be a Gay-Rights Champn. Prce: Gay In, Whether He Wanted to Be or NotHow to rencile his later nservatism wh the sexual liberatn he stood for earlier life?

EDOR’S COLUMN: THE POSSIBILI LOST TO A DEAD GAY PRCE

Mike Blake / RtersIn 2008, the New Yorker wrer Claire Hoffman asked Prce what he thought of social issu like gay marriage and abortn.

THE FIRST GAY PRCE EVER IS HERE AND HE SEEMS PRETTY AWOME

The “homophobe” label attached self to him, acpanied by the bter shock of many fans.