India's First Gay Prce Talks About His Inial Stggl Of Beg A Homosexual In India

Contents:

• INDIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE ENDURED YEARS OF TORTURO NVERSN THERAPY. NOW, HE'S FIGHTG TO MAKE THE PRACTICE ILLEGAL.
• PRI AND PREJUDICE: INDIAN ROYAL MANVENDRA SGH GOHIL ON BEG THE WORLD’S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE
• IN INDIA, A GAY PRCE’S COMG OUT EARNS ACLAS, AND ENEMI
• INDIA’S FIRST GAY PRCE: PRCE MANVENDRA SGH GOHIL
• INDIA’S FIRST GAY PRCE TALKS ABOUT HIS INIAL STGGL OF BEG A HOMOSEXUAL IN INDIA
• A GAY INDIAN PRCE TALKS ABOUT HIS LIFE AND IT'S JT AS FULL OF PRIVILEG AS IT IS OF CHALLENG
• WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE OPENS HIS PALACE DOORS TO INDIAN LGBT COMMUNY
• FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE SPEAKS OUT ON MISSN TO END CONVERSN THERAPY: 'I HAVE TO KEEP FIGHTG'
• PRCE MANVENDRA, THE WORLD'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PRCE, FIGHTS FOR LGBT RIGHTS IN INDIA
• YOUNG, ROYAL & GAY: THE LIFE OF AN INDIAN PRCE

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.

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

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.

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

Many around him believed that homosexualy was a mental disorr.

INDIA’S FIRST GAY PRCE: PRCE MANVENDRA SGH GOHIL

Much of his advocy for LGBTQ+ rights ntu to primarily revolve around cimatg the stigma around homosexualy.

INDIA’S FIRST GAY PRCE TALKS ABOUT HIS INIAL STGGL OF BEG A HOMOSEXUAL IN INDIA

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. Speakg exclively to Tatler om Rajvant Palace, his fay’s grand rince Gujarat, wtern India, the 55-year-old prce rells how havg a breakdown the early 2000s set him on a path that led to his beg crowned one of the untry’s leadg LGBTQ+ rights activists and hailed by many as the only openly gay prce the 2002, Prce Manvendra was certa he was gay, havg been attracted to men for years.

A GAY INDIAN PRCE TALKS ABOUT HIS LIFE AND IT'S JT AS FULL OF PRIVILEG AS IT IS OF CHALLENG

‘My mother and father mand I have surgery or shock therapy to be cured, ’ he prce was hled off to a seri of doctors and spirual guis, all of whom told his parents no uncerta terms that their son’s homosexualy was neher a disorr nor a mental illns that uld be expunged. ’Unterred, however, the Maharana and Maharani of Raipla tried to keep their son’s homosexualy unr wraps – was then illegal India – but 2006, the prce me out to a newspaper. So they sent him off to the doctor, as they would years later when he told them he was gay.

When Prce Manvendra was married, homosexualy was a crimal offence. ‘In India, homo-social behavur is very accepted, ’ he says.

‘On the one hand, they tell you beg gay is wrong.

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

Not bee I was gay – they said was bee I spoke the tth.

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

Many don’t agree wh the Supreme Court’s cisn, ’ he says, referrg to the 2018 legalisatn of homosexualy.

Homophobia and hypocrisy mt be cimated.

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

Sgh is not gay, but he has received threats merely for workg on LGBTQ+ Indian issu.

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

Unterred, Sgh marked the two-year anniversary of India’s legalisatn of homosexualy wh an onle exhibn September om his London gallery.

’Content as Prce Manvendra seems, many fear that warmg attus towards gay people India uld soon turn osty aga, particularly unr the natnalist le of the untry’s prime mister Narendra Modi.