India's First Openly Gay Prce Turned His Palace Into a Safe Haven for the LGBTQ+ Communy

Contents:

• INDIA'S GAY PRCE MANVENDRA SGH OPENS HIS PALACE TO LGBT PEOPLE
• Y, KEIR MATHER IS GAY: MEET HIS PARTNER AND FAY
• LILLY SGH AND YOEF ERAKAT RELATNSHIP TIMELE- GAY RUMORS AND PARTNER EXPLORED
• INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.
• IN INDIA, A GAY PRCE’S COMG OUT EARNS ACLAS, AND ENEMI
• IS LILLY SGH GAY? ІSUреRWоMаNІ SHOCKG LIFE AND CAREER!
• WHO’S MICKEY SGH? WIKI-B: SON, BROTHER, WIFE, PARENTS, GAY, DATG, MARRIED

INDIA'S GAY PRCE MANVENDRA SGH OPENS HIS PALACE TO LGBT PEOPLE

He is also gay - a fact that he has kept mostly private until now. From them I have received ath threats for beg gay, I have been acced on a TV statn of beg an fil and I have even had dividuals ll me up and threaten to expose me.

He wanted to tell his story on his own terms, and also to send a msage to gay Sikhs facg difficulti. "Jasvir says that the Sikh relign which he grew up wh his fay, was very foced on a central te of equaly, and says he has never felt his fah to be nflict wh his homosexualy. Though many Sikhs see thgs differently, Jasvir says he never saw any nflict the relign's teachgs and scripture between his fah and his sexual Gu Granth Sahib, the re Sikh relig text, do not refer to homosexualy at all, but do make mentn of hbands and wiv.

This has allowed Sikhs on different sis of the bate to pot to scripture as backg up their own posn on homosexualy and on same-sex unns. "Sadly I know gay Sikhs who have given up their fah, or who feel their only optn was to cut their hair, and to bee ls fahful, or jt foc on their ner fah rather than spend time at the gurdwara.

Y, KEIR MATHER IS GAY: MEET HIS PARTNER AND FAY

I'm not gog to waver om my fah but I'm also not gog to be ashamed of my sexualy, " Jasvir of Jasvir's reason for speakg out is also bee he says he had never had gay Sikh role mols, particularly upl and those who nsired themselv to be relig.

LILLY SGH AND YOEF ERAKAT RELATNSHIP TIMELE- GAY RUMORS AND PARTNER EXPLORED

"When that weddg vio was leaked and malicly spread around social media, was the way one of my elrly relativ found out I was gay, " he says.

How many south-asian ppl the public eye n u name who are gay/bi and out?

INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.

But the fay’s reactn was right out of a handbook, bee beg gay is still related to shame most South Asian South Asian fai the Wt still fd difficult to even talk about sex, and would rather have believe babi are born om holdg hands, let alone discs sexualy outsi of a tradnal heterosexual relatnship.

It was around this time she actually found Sgh’s vios and even though they weren’t anythg to do wh beg gay, they were about self-love—exactly what Hunter need at the time.

And that’s ually what a lot of LGBTQI South Asians also discs among themselv—how to e out when they’re unsure whether their parents even know what beg gay Nagra, a 34-year-old Canadian wh Punjabi herage, me out to her parents 10 years ago.

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

The Vanuver illtrator scrib her g out as an “impactful experience”, a nversatn which fished wh her mother givg her the tightt hug of her gay is almost a taboo the subntent—lack of tn, awarens, and the fact that no South Asian public figure, at least no one wh Sgh’s profile, has acknowledged their sexualy. Nagra relled her iend’s g out to his mother, who thought he wanted a sex change when he told her he was Bollywood, which produc hundreds of movi watched by lns around the world, until as recently as this year has never openly clud homosexualy as a part of s ma storyle, but rather only picted facetly through movi like Dostana, starrg the middle of such tightly packed silence, when a world popular role mol like Lilly Sgh forward, she’s almost forcg people to have a much need nversatn.

IS LILLY SGH GAY? ІSUреRWоMаNІ SHOCKG LIFE AND CAREER!

A recent high school graduate India, who intifi herself as queer and gay, has been followg Sgh’s vios sce 2013.

“If and when I e out, I’ll be able to show my parents that… beg gay don’t stop me om havg all—I n be succsful and have a full life, ” the 18-year-old told, too, thks Sgh’s public acceptance of her bisexualy is “huge” for the muny bee will help give nfince to people tryg to e out to their fai and they n show her as an example of someone livg a pletely normal and succsful life.

I didn’t know any other Indian Punjabi gay person then, ” she s ago, Canadian-Indian Director, Deepa Mehta’s movie, Fire, about two women fallg love, was met by vlence and vandalism India.

WHO’S MICKEY SGH? WIKI-B: SON, BROTHER, WIFE, PARENTS, GAY, DATG, MARRIED

But thgs are fely improvg for the LGBTQI muny through yearly gay pri march across the untry and the fact that a recently released movie, Ek Ladki Ko Dekha To Aisa Lagha, about a lbian g out to her fay, starrg a popular Bollywood face, was met wh zero year, the Indian Supreme Court stck down a lonial era law crimalisg gay sex, a historic moment for gay rights the largt South Asian untry. Dpe a vast rerve of rourc beg available on the ter to pore over and learn om, a large sectn of the populatn believ that bisexual dividuals are simply “gog through a phase”, that they are more promiscuo and therefore require a wir range of “optns”, or more trimentally, that bisexualy is a gateway to homosexualy.

Capta Sgh is gay?

Gay Indian prce Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil, the probable heir of the Maharaja of Raipla Gujarat, has opened up his 15-acre palace grounds to vulnerable LGBT muny members and is said to be nstctg more buildgs to hoe visors. Ostracised by his fay after g out publilly 2006, Prce Manvendra started the muny-based anisatn to support gay men and te people about the preventn of HIV/Aids. The anizatn works on var issu addrsg and advotg the social, enomic, legal, psychologil, spirual and health aspects of sexual mori (Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr populatn) the wtern Indian state of Gujarat.