How The World's First Openly Gay Prce Is Fightg For LGBT Rights In India
Contents:
- THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE FIGHTS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS INDIA
- 25 YEARS OF GAY ISSU ON THE OPRAH SHOW
- IS OPRAH GAY? FALLY, CONFIRMATN
- OPRAH & GAY RUMORS -- PICTUR TELL STORY
- TYLER PERRY AND OPRAH WEY FELL OUT OVER HIS GAY-THEMED SHOWS AND TYLER TAKG CRED FOR TURNG OWN AROUND
- IN INDIA, A GAY PRCE’S COMG OUT EARNS ACLAS, AND ENEMI
- PRCE MANVENDRA, THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE, FIGHTS FOR LGBT RIGHTS IN INDIA
- WATCH OPRAH POWERFULLY STAND UP FOR GAY RIGHTS THIS 1997 CLIP
- GAYLE KG ON ROMANCE RUMORS WH OPRAH: ‘IF WE WERE GAY, WE WOULD TELL YOU’
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
The Oprah Show looks back at 25 years of gay issu featured on the show. * oprah gay prince *
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.
IS OPRAH GAY? FALLY, CONFIRMATN
Oprah says she's not gay -- perd. Wey says she felt pelled to proclaim to the world – the Augt issue of O Magaze -- that she and longtime bt iend Gayle Kg are not lovers. * oprah gay prince *
In 1992, Oprah Wey was home watchg televisn wh her bt iend, Gayle Kg. In 25 years, The Oprah Show has vered jt about every gay issue imagable—homophobia, gay marriage, even a whole fay who is gay. 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.
"Michael says seeg Greg speak openly about beg gay was a first step his g out procs.
OPRAH & GAY RUMORS -- PICTUR TELL STORY
Entertament Tans Tyler Perry and Oprah Wey were once tighter than a pair of panty hose 2 siz small. But the media moguls recently parted ways over creative and profsnal differenc. Rumor has that Oprah grew tired of the gay directn that Perry was takg all of his shows . Acrdg to the Daily * oprah gay prince *
"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. I know I'm gay.
"I'd never seen another gay person.
TYLER PERRY AND OPRAH WEY FELL OUT OVER HIS GAY-THEMED SHOWS AND TYLER TAKG CRED FOR TURNG OWN AROUND
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In 2006, Chris, a wife and mother of two boys, explaed how she me to realize she was gay.
IN INDIA, A GAY PRCE’S COMG OUT EARNS ACLAS, AND ENEMI
In a 1997 Oprah Show segment, Oprah fends her cisn to terview Ellen DeGener, who at the time, ma the historic cisn to publicly e out as gay. * oprah gay prince *
"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. 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?
PRCE MANVENDRA, THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE, FIGHTS FOR LGBT RIGHTS IN INDIA
Jodie says she had never thought she was gay until meetg Kriste. 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.
WATCH OPRAH POWERFULLY STAND UP FOR GAY RIGHTS THIS 1997 CLIP
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. 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.
GAYLE KG ON ROMANCE RUMORS WH OPRAH: ‘IF WE WERE GAY, WE WOULD TELL YOU’
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. 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.
I knew my whole life that I was gay.