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He was 41 at the time, and was publicly disowned by his parents, the Maharaja and Maharani of Raipla. </p><style data-emotn="css 18vfmjb">{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-size:1.1875rem;le-height:1.6;} em{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-style:alic;} strong{font-fay:Charter,Geia,Tim,Serif;font-weight:bold;}</style><p data-no-id="1" class="css-18vfmjb et3p2gv0">When he told them he was gay 2002<em>, </em>his parents soon subjected him to nversn therapy.<em> </em>"They thought was impossible that I uld be gay bee my cultural upbrgg had been so rich. 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<p><strong>Gareth McLean</strong> talks to Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil, India's first openly gay royal, about his luxur upbrgg, disastro marriage and unrver datg Brighton</p>

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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.

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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.

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The only openly gay prce India - where same sex relatns are illegal - is throwg open his palace doors to lbians, gays, transgenr and other Indians shunned for their sexualy. * royal gay in india *

Many around him believed that homosexualy was a mental disorr.

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Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil is a gay man, which mak life rather plited a untry where beg gay is illegal. Article 377 crimaliz the act of homosexualy between men. * royal gay in india *

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.

GAY INDIAN PRCE THROWS OPEN PALACE DOORS TO VULNERABLE LGBT PEOPLE

Same-sex marriag are illegal India spe the Supreme Court scrappg a lonial-era ban on gay sex 2018 . * royal gay in india *

Manvendra Sgh Gohil beme the first openly gay prce the world when he me out 2006.

INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE IS WORKG TO MAKE CONVERSN THERAPY ILLEGAL

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Queen Elizabeth's Lord Ivar Mountbatten me out as gay  September 2016. Philippe I, the De of Orléans, was known and often cricized for drsg women's clothg and his homosexualy was monly acknowledged. The younger brother of Kg Louis XIV, Philippe I was negatively scribed by the seventeenth-century memoirist Sat-Simon as effemate and "always adorned like a woman." While the terms gay, queer, or even bisexual were rarely directly ed to scribe the royal, his relatnships wh men were well-documented.Acrdg to Retrospect Journal, the urtier Madame Lafayette wrote her memoire that no woman uld ever "enflame [Philippe's] heart." It is also wily accepted that Philippe I had a number of queer relatnships, most notably wh the Chevalier Lorrae, to which his brother turned a bld eye to.

His first wife, Prcs Henrietta of England, died of peronis ed by a perforated ulcer, though an vtigatn nducted by Sat-Simon alleged that the Chevalier Lorrae and the Marquis d'Effiat, another of Philippe's supposed lovers, had poisoned her.Philippe later married Prcs Palate Elizabeth Charlotte, who slept separate bedchambers and was generally fivg of what she lled "the Italian vice," a lloquial term for homosexualy that era. Shortly after he took the throne followg the abditn of his father Kg Victor Emmanuel III, Umberto was outed the prs as homosexual.

YOUNG, ROYAL & GAY: THE LIFE OF AN INDIAN PRCE

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After they separated, von Furstenberg told New York Magaze that he and Diane had experimented wh another woman durg their marriage, but she had a distaste for .Acrdg to World of Wonr, he also told an Italian newspaper that gay clubs like the Flamgo were among his favore plac to spend time and equently partied on Fire Island, a known lotn for the LGBTQ+ muny to e together. Lord Ivar Mountbatten is the first extend member of the Brish royal fay to e out as gay.

Lord Ivar Mountbatten, who is related to both Queen Elizabeth and her late hband Prce Philip, married his partner Jam Coyle 2018 two years after g out publicly as gay.Mountbatten was prevly married to Penny Mountbatten, a Brish philanthropist, om 1994 until 2011.

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

A three-storey mosque and Islamic centre, named 'Picdilly Prayer Space,' is set to be tablished wh the Troro, a historic entertament plex London's entertament quarter. However, the cisn to build the mosque has also sparked a bate, wh crics qutng s lotn, also known for s bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots. * royal gay in india *

Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil publicly me out an terview to a lol newspaper 2006, beg the first openly gay royal the untry. He was 41 at the time.Until 2018, homosexualy was illegal India unr a lonial era law that mand up to life imprisonment for anyone mtg sexual acts "agast the orr of nature.""The day I me out, my effigi were burnt.

Today, Gohil is fightg to outlaw gay nversn therapy India and fight the stigma agast the LGBTQ muny the untry.

MEET INDIA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE WHO IS FIGHTG TO BAN CONVERSN THERAPYMANVENDRA SGH GOHIL, 55, BEME INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ROYAL 2006.QUT NEONPUBLISHED: 26 APR 2022, 1:40 PM ISTSOCIAL BUZZ2 M READISHARE THE QUT DAILY

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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. 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.

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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.

PRI AND PREJUDICE: INDIAN ROYAL MANVENDRA SGH GOHIL ON BEG THE WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE

” 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. 5 thgs to know about Prce Manvendra, India’s first openly gay royal.

His mother publicly disowned him by placg an advert the lol paper, and took almost a for them to rencile, a natn where LGBTQ+ activists only recently prevailed havg gay sex crimalised Published: 4:00pm, 10 Mar, 2020 Updated: 4:00pm, 10 Mar, 2020 Manvendra Sgh Gohil (left) and De DeAndre Richardson, photographed durg the Hong Kong Pri Para 2018, at Victoria Park, Cseway Bay. 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, Fürstenberg had a well-known fondns for gay nightlife.

The prce is gay. In a untry where gay sex is still crimalised, huge stigma is attached to homosexualy and the prsure to marry and have children orr to ntue the fay le is massive. "In fact, the prce's parents had known he was gay sce 2002.

OPENLY GAY INDIAN PRCE JOS CALLS TO BAN LGBT CONVERSN THERAPY

Eventually, the prce's parents begdggly accepted that he was gay but mand he keep his sexualy was a secret that the prce was only prepared to keep for so long. He also nurtured a growg sense of jtice at the treatment of gay men India.

Sectn 377 of the Indian penal , which dat back to Brish imperial le, crimalis gay sex and though 's rarely enforced, 's equently employed by the police to blackmail closeted gay men.

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