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THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE FIGHTS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS INDIA

Prce Manvendra, the word's first openly gay prce, opens up about his fight for equal rights India. * oprah gay prince *

Prce Manvendra had stepped out of the closet and to a firtorm of ntroversy when he announced to the world he was gay.

At that time, India had revoked the law that ma homosexual acts punishable by 10 years to life prison. In recent years, however, Prce Manvendra says the gay rights movement India has faced many challeng.

25 YEARS OF GAY ISSU ON THE OPRAH SHOW

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In 2014, Prce Manvendra lnched Free Gay India, a grassroots mpaign to raise awarens about India's anti-gay laws. "When I say that the homosexuals are not ee India, we don't have the eedom to love, " he says.

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One of the most memorable of the shows was 1995, when Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis spoke publicly for the first time about beg gay and HIV-posive. "When I was 12 years old, I knew I was gay. "I was fely aaid if my parents found out I was gay, they were gog to disown me.

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"Michael says seeg Greg speak openly about beg gay was a first step his g out procs. "My mother sat me down and asked me, did I thk I was gay? "So I told my mother, 'No, I don't thk I'm gay.

TYLER PERRY AND OPRAH WEY FELL OUT OVER HIS GAY-THEMED SHOWS AND TYLER TAKG CRED FOR TURNG OWN AROUND

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I know I'm gay. "I'd never seen another gay person. In 2006, Chris, a wife and mother of two boys, explaed how she me to realize she was gay.

"One of the ma reasons I believe that I supported Christe through her g out is bee I myself was gay, " he said. Chris and Joe's sons Alex and Mil, who were 14 and 12 at the time, said the harst thg about havg two gay parents was weatherg bullyg ments at school. Alex says havg gay parents don't change anythg at home bee he knows they love him and his brother.

If you're gay, you're still gog to love your children the same amount as if you were heterosexual.

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

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When Chris returned home after revealg the tth about her sexualy on natnal televisn, she says she felt like a "gay rock star. "Two gay people g together and jt kd of knowg that they have this fluidy.

"'How did they go through the marriage whout knowg that they were gay?

Jodie says she had never thought she was gay until meetg Kriste.

PRCE MANVENDRA, THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE, FIGHTS FOR LGBT RIGHTS IN INDIA

Charlie says he had spected that he might be gay for some time. "But I had never talked about [beg gay] wh anyone, " he says. In 2007, Prce Manvendra Sgh Gohil of Raipla, India stepped out of the closet and to a firtorm of ntroversy when he announced to the world he is gay.

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At the time India, beg gay was legal, but homosexual acts were punishable by up to 10 years prison.

Today, Prce Manvendra works wh the Lakshya Tst, an anizatn he started, to advote for the rights of gay Indians and has worked to crease HIV/AIDS awarens his untry. Homosexual acts are no longer illegal, and gay Indians have started assertg their rights.

In 2007, a gay pri para India would have been unthkable—now they are regular fixtur the untry. In 2005, Kim and Amanda—a mother and dghter—appeared on an Oprah Show episo lled "When I Knew I Was Gay. " Amanda said she had known she was gay for as long as she uld remember.

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At 10 years old, Amanda told her mother she was gay, but Kim dismissed . "I asked Libby to speak to Kim and Amanda bee I wanted you, pecially, to see that Libby was a happy and succsful gay woman, " Oprah says to Kim.

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