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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. 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.

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

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. "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.

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

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. 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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. 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.

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

” 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? 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.

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

“The pop star who ma his name on his effete, androgyno ‘Is he GAY or not?

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 qutn of how someone whose art once seemed to preach the very ia of “stickg wherever and dog wh whatever”—wh magaz, etc.

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. “Controversy, ” famoly, sniffed at the simplistic qutns directed at him: “Am I black or whe, am I straight or gay? ’ Gay marriage, whatever.

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

Gay Sdi prce who beat his manservant to ath is jailed for life... Then we'll probably offer him asylum A gay Sdi prce has been jailed for life today wh a mimum term of 20 years for beatg and stranglg his servant to ath the culmatn of a mpaign of 'sadistic' Abdulaziz b Nasser al Sd was found guilty at the Old Bailey of murrg Bandar Abdulaziz a 'btal' asslt at their five-star hotel prce was fuelled by champagne and 'sex on the beach' cktails when he b the 32-year-old hard on both cheeks durg the attack was also revealed he uld seek asylum upon release, bee homosexualy is punishable by ath his home untry. The 34-year-old, a member of one of the world's richt and most powerful dynasti, was found guilty of murr by the jury after jt one hour and 35 mut of sentence means end to his luxury playboy liftyle, fund by his wealthy fay, which he ded fe rtrants and secretly entertaed gay rts his plh hotel room.

Convicted: Gay killer Sd Abdulaziz b Nasser al Sd was fuelled on Champagne and 'sex on the beach' cktails when he attacked his servantSentencg him today, Mr Jtice Bean said: 'It is very unual for a prce to be the dock on a murr charge. 'The prce, standg the dock wh his arms crossed, showed no emotn as the sentence was hand urt his lawyers had tried to ver up evince of his he ever returns to his home untry he fac the possibily of executn - not bee of the killg but bee beg gay is a pal offence the trial, the Foreign Office warned the royal uld be prosecuted by his fay unr sharia law for g them 'shame' nfirmed he would be 'entled to apply for asylum' if he was emed at risk after beg released om human rights laws, a prisoner nnot be ported to a untry allowg the ath penalty unls assuranc have been ma to prevent the murr of Mr Abdulaziz was the fal act a 'eply abive' master-servant relatnship which the prce rried out equent attacks on his ai 'for his own personal gratifitn' heard that by the early hours of Febary 15, Mr Abdulaziz was left so worn down and jured - havg suffered a 'uliflower' ear and swollen eye om prev asslts - that he simply let Sd kill him whout a prce then spent hours on the phone to a myster ntact Sdi Arabia tryg to work out how to ver up what he had lmly orred two glass of k and bottled water on room service as he set about draggg the body to the bed and tryg to clean up the was only about 12 hours later, after chffr Abadi Aballa received a ll om Sdi Arabia tellg him to go to the hotel, that the body was disvered room 312.

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

Detectiv took him to the area to try to retrace the route but as they did so other officers were reviewg CCTV at the hotel - and found disturbg footage of Sd mercilsly attackg his ai a lift on January he was then taken to Paddgton Green police statn and arrted, Sdi officials tried to claim he had diplomatic immuny but this was stched by a check of Foreign Office tried to ver up the te nature of his relatnship wh his servant, claimg they were 'iends and equals' but a porter at the £259-a-night Landmark Hotel where they were stayg said Mr Abdulaziz was treated 'like a slave' prce also claimed he was heterosexual and had a girliend Sdi Arabia, but he had booked appotments wh at least two male rts and one gay massr, and looked at hundreds of imag of men on gay webs. He llapsed urt Before g to Bra on January 20 they had been the Maldiv where pictur of the pair were taken, later shown to the urt, which seemed to be 'perfectly ordary holiday snaps' prce was scribed by wns as pole, well-mannered, charmg and genero, said Jonathan Laidlaw QC, assumed that he and the shy Mr Abdulaziz were gay lovers but none seemed to be aware of the sister si of the prce's treatment of his Laidlaw said: 'Beneath the surface this was a eply abive relatnship which the fendant exploed, as the asslts the lift so graphilly monstrate, for sadistic reasons, for his own personal gratifitn.

'GAY PRINCE FACES THE DEATH PENALTY IN HIS HOMELANDPrce Sd fac the ath penalty over his gay sex life if he ever returns to his home untry and may have to apply for asylum when he is eventually lawyers failed a last-dch attempt to stop sordid tails of his enunters wh male rts beg revealed durg the Kelsey-Fry QC, fendg, said Al Sd had already faced abe om Islamic fundamentalists beg held alongsi him at Belmarsh urt heard that homosexualy remas a pal offence Sdi Arabia, wh the untry which the acts take place havg ltle relevance to the prosecutn, unr the untry's sharia law .

Fai of those acced have been known to ph for the most severe penalti bee of the perceived shame ed to them by natnals have been granted asylum the UK on the basis they were Kelsey-Fry had unsuccsfully argued before the trial started to exclu evince of the gay relatnship om the evince put before the a sign of the anxiety about his sexualy beg public, the prce's lawyers had even ially argued that this legal argument should be held behd closed add: 'There have been difficulti Belmarsh prison already whereby there are Islamists - Islamic fundamentalists - who have already ed difficulti wh this fendant. Meanwhile, the prce booked appotments wh gay rt Pablo Silva, a Brazilian stunt, and a send man ll Brad - who did not speak to police. Elsewhere, Eduardo Parente, a gay barman at the Purple Bar of the Sanrson Hotel, said the prce flirted wh him and suggted they meet socially.